By T. Frohock Harper Voyager, ISBN:978-0062825612 Paperback, 368 pages. ©2019 Diago, a nefil born of an angel-daimon pairing, has been tasked by the leader of Los Nefilim with finding The Key, a musical sequence that can unlock the barrier between realms and unite the nefilim’s voices, empowering them to save Spain from the coming darkness….
Author: DremaDeoraich
Four Lessons From Reading The Wheel of Time
(or: My Teachers Were Right All Along) My husband has read (rather, heard) the epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan, more than once, and spoken highly of it each time. This year I finally decided to listen to his recommendations. I began reading Eye of the World, the first novel in…
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
I have a handful of short stories in my query list, ones for which I’ve been trying to find homes for months now. Each time I’d get a rejection, I’d shake my head and submit that piece elsewhere. Last week, I opened one of them to re-read it (it’s been a while). What I found…
Remember Me?
I’m back! Didja miss me? After four weeks of a flash fiction class where we had homework every week, another week of preparing to teach a class for a friend, and three weeks of non-stop editing/re-reading/re-editing, I’ve finally sent off my latest draft to the next round of readers. Now I’m at a point where…
7 Praises for Scrivener
Every now and then I see posts on Twitter or Facebook asking whether or not Scrivener is a good project development program for writers. I always chime in with a resounding “yes!” Not because I’m being paid to say so. I’m not. I just know a useful tool when I see one, and I want…
Draft Number 4,927,319
What?? Monday got past me without posting on my site??? I think somebody spun the clock ahead (and not just for daylight savings time) when I wasn’t looking. How did I lose a whole day? To be honest, things are going to be cranking in my life for the next month or so. After I…
Do It Anyway
I mentioned in my last post that I was traveling to Guatemala with friends who do humanitarian work on behalf of the Masai American Organization through proceeds from the Dream Shop and other sources: providing basic health, dental and visual checkups; building new schools and elder centers; supporting local women’s co-ops who create hand-dyed and…
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas Balzer + Bray Publishing, ISBN: 978-0062498533 Hardcover, 464 pages. ©2017 16-year-old Starr Carter lives in Garden Heights, a poor black neighborhood where gangs run the streets and drugs are ubiquitous. Between her mother’s job as a nurse and her father’s community grocery store in the Heights, Starr’s parents manage to send her…
Say Nothing
By Brad Parks Dutton Publishing, ISBN: 978-1101985601 Paperback 464 pages. ©2017 When federal judge Scott Sampson receives a text from his wife saying she will pick up their kids after school, he is mildly annoyed. It was his turn, not hers. He and the twins had plans, and now they’ll have to be postponed. Besides,…
Outside the Box
After a long dry spell, I’m writing again. At the moment, I’m working on a short story with specfic elements (my norm), and a new, non-specfic novel which I intend to write as a series of letters. Single first-person POV telling a tragic story that will probably be the hardest thing I ever write, so…