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07Jun 2016 by Dianna L. Gunn

Book Review: DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build your Community

DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build your Community is a brand new(it's actually only available on pre-order right now) writing book written by one of my all time favourite bloggers, Gabriela Pereira of DIY MFA. The book, blog and courses Gabriela has created all share one goal: to help writers who don't have the time or money for a traditional MFA program create their own structured writing education, a home-made MFA program. I've been following Gabriela since 2011 so I was obviously thrilled when she finally announced this book and even more excited when she sent out the call for reviewers and actually let me join the list. The Details The great thing about DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build your Community is how different it is…

First Frost

Author Interviews, Reading Related

Today I'd like to take a break from my regular series of interviews and share instead a review of the novel First Frost by Liz DeJesus. Let's start with the back cover copy: Fairytales aren’t real…yeah…that’s exactly what Bianca thought. She was wrong. For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to “family only.” Gathered within museum’s walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella’s glass slipper, Snow White’s poisoned apple, the evil queen’s magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty’s enchanted spinning wheel… Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working…

Live and Let Fly by Karina Fabian

Book Reviews, Reading Related

Those of you who've been following me for a while may remember Karina Fabian's guest post on the submission process and my earlier interview with her. Most recently I had the opportunity to review Live and Let Fly, a paranormal fantasy released by Muse It Up Publishing earlier this year. Let's start with the back cover: For a dragon detective with a magic-slinging nun as a partner, saving the worlds gets routine. So, when the U.S. government hires Vern and Sister Grace to recover stolen secrets for creating a new Interdimensional Gap—secrets the U.S. would like to keep, thank you—Vern sees a chance to play Dragon-Oh-Seven. No human spy, however, ever went up against a Norse goddess determined to rescue her husband. Sigyn will move heaven and earth to get…