“Bitch, Queen, whore, warrior, wife, and mother: In The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso, Talyien aren dar Orenar is all of these and so much more.”
Monthly Archives: July 2020
“The wall smiled in a way walls shouldn’t smile.”
“The key to effective satire is having the clever character who sees what a sham society/the universe/whatever is get shit on by the society/universe/whatever. Nobody likes a snotty know-it-all until they get shoved face-first into a puddle.”
“The premise is simple. You have two groups and two wildly different perspectives. Julia, Chen, Aarush, and Inanna are friends with a singular purpose — they want to change the world. They want to fix the crushing reality of being a millennial and living in a generation whose lives will be worse than those preceding it, and they will do anything to accomplish this task.”
Are You Ready! I am pleased to announce the cover for Azaaa Davis’s New Book Jilted – Never Marry A Shifter Book 1 What is it about? Administrative assistant by day and boss lady on social media by night, Theresa enjoys sharing her charmed life with half-million followers. The only thing she loves more is being engaged to the hottest …
“I would say that I find myself exploring the ways in which peoples, cultures, and civilizations find themselves in positions of power, and what influences and experiences affect how they then choose to use those powers.”
“Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun came out in the 1980s, and is a perpetual puzzle people still try to solve. Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren dealt with the intersection of race and sexuality in an anarchic city. Gormenghast is a thoughtful book premised around the manipulation of ritual. Evangeline Walton’s retelling of the Mabinogion is crisp, insightful, and brings …
“All things have a value. Sometimes the value is paid in coin. Other times, it is paid in time and sweat. And finally, sometimes it is paid in blood.”
When I was a child, I heard voices
Some would sing and some would scream
You soon find you have few choices
I learned the voices died with me
Deal with the here, not the maybes. ―Â
