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Guest Post: The Journey to Finding My Voice by Author Kate Seger
Visit her website! Ah, the captivating world of writing—a dimension where I’ve always felt both entranced and, for a long time, somewhat astray. As a young, aspiring author, I admired a pantheon of literary greats, trying to find my footing by echoing their voices. Each narrative I spun felt like an act of mimicry, a…
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Review: The Village Healer’s Book of Cures by Jennifer Sherman Roberts
I like that witches in literature can be good or bad. Some do follow the black magic tradition of curses and steaming cauldrons. Other witches, like the protagonist in the book I’m about to review, are healers whose reputations suffer from superstition.
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Books of Octobers Past
Since I’ve been trying to make a habit of writing, I can’t spend as much time hiding in other stories. Still, in my opinion, a good book is worth procrastinating with.
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Sealskin by Su Bristow
Purchase here! I write about Merpeople, so I enjoy finding books that take place near the sea. Of these, my favorites are those so well-written, I can feel the chill of the sea air and smell the salt in each breath. I can only hope to one day be able to describe things in such…
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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Stories such as this also teach us the endurance of the human spirit. When the only thing standing between a man and death is hope, how can a shipwrecked captain keep his crew hopeful? When it seems that the cry of land-ho will never come, how can a starving, thirsty sailor be troubled to keep…
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Telling the Whole Story
“Don’t write through a migraine.” I find myself thinking this, even as a hundred new ideas barrel into me for the two pieces I’ll be focusing on come November: Sandcastles, and a novella that I sense will be about a ghost ship. It’s exciting. I’d like to say one day that I told the whole…
Mariella Hunt & the Tearoom 