2019
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Akemi Dawn Bowman Book Club Part 2!
Hello, welcome back to part 2 of this mammoth post about our wonderful book club visit from Akemi Dawn Bowman. If you haven’t read Part 1 you can check it out here This second part will be more focussed on Akemi’s writing style and process, and centres around questions she was asked about other elements of writing, including getting published! Akemi was asked what her writing process consists of, and she told us that she does the majority of her writing when her children are asleep, which she says is quite a stressful method. She will write for 3 or 4 months straight while on deadline, then crash spectacularly afterwards.…
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A Chain Across The Dawn | Blog Tour
Hello everyone, welcome to my stop on the A Chain Across the Dawn tour! Today I have a sneak peak of chapter 2, for you all. Check out the tour post on my Instagram too, and follow the rest of the tour! Check out the extract below! Title: A Chain Across the Dawn Author: Drew Williams Published: 8th August 2019 Genre: Science Fiction Series: The Universe After #2 Bigger spaceships. Bigger explosions. Bigger planets. Bigger problems. It’s been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified after her rescue from the fanatical murderers the Pax. Together, Esa and her mentor Kamali travel from planet to planet,…
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Book Review- We Hunt The Flame
Title: We Hunt The Flame Author: Hafsah Faizal Published: 8th August 2019 Pages: 480 Series: Sands of Arawiya #1 Genre: YA, Fantasy Trigger Warnings: Neglect, Abuse, Death Rating: 5/5 People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected. Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If he refuses he will be punished in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends…
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Akemi Dawn Bowman Book Club Part 1!
Last week at work we were very lucky to be visited by YA author Akemi Dawn Bowman, who cam along to our teen bookclub to discuss her books, answer everyone’s questions and sign everyone’s books! Just a warning that there will be some spoilers for Starfish and Summer Bird Blue in this post! I have split this post into two parts. The first part that you are reading deals with the discussion we had with Akemi about her books and the characters. In part 2, the discussion is more centred on writing and editing, and Akemi gives us an insight into her methods! Firstly I have to say that she…
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Top 5 Tuesday |Top 5 Dystopian
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm Every week they suggest a different topic and we write a post listing our top 5! This week’s topic is dystopian novels, one of my favourite genres of novels, so I did struggle a wee bit to narrow it down to just 5!! Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel I read this novel for the first time a few months ago, and it has made it into my favourite novels of all time. A fascinating dystopian novel following a travelling circus after the end of the world, I highly recommend it! …