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Last week I started my MFA program, and after six workshops on magic systems and real-life magic, it occurred to me that there's a magic...

Laura Taylor Namey, y'all. I have read two of her books so far and each of them was emotional and gorgeous in its own way. Today I need,...

In 2021, I read close to 70 books, wrote two new novel-length stories, queried twice, applied (and got into) grad school for my MFA in...

If you didn't know, now you know: I'm starting an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults in January! I'll be joining a...

Picture this: you're one of the stars of America's most popular boy band, and you've got a massive crush on one of your bandmates. The...

What a year 2021 has been. I don't know where to start? There have been intensely great things about this year — I traveled to California...

The perfect companion to Our Violent Ends is, in my humble opinion, the recently released Red (Taylor's Version). This is because both...

Sonia Hartl has been writing seriously for publication since 2005, when she penned her first novel. Like many writers, her journey to...

I am unabashedly in love with the Little Women universe created by Louisa May Alcott. I'm in love with the movie adaptations, although I...

Have you ever had the experience of reading a book and even long after you finish it, the story lives RENT-FREE in your head? Just...you...

Little Thieves is about a conwoman who trades lives with a princess and is eventually cursed to turn into jewels if she doesn't break the...

Shanna Miles has been a reader as long as she can remember, describing stories as her "happy place" through childhood and into adulthood....

It's pitched as a gender-bent The Outsiders, which would probably mean a lot more to me if I'd read The Outsiders before picking up...

I wouldn't have guessed it would end up this way. A little more than five years ago, I decided to take a semester-long break from my...

When I finished Erin Hahn's More Than Maybe in the summer of 2020, I immediately rushed to write a review that could capture all the...

One day, I laughed so hard and full of carefree joy that I nearly peed my pants. One day, I sobbed with such intensity that I...

The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad, author of The Candle and the Flame (which was a finalist for a William C. Morris Award), is a feminist...

I finished the book. I'm still a little shell-shocked that I did it but I finished drafting a book. It has been so long since I've been...

Let's do something fun! Instead of randomly sprinkling my blog with long reviews every few weeks, I'm going to try out a monthly...

When a publicist pitched me Gearbreakers, she described it as "high-octane." Now that I'm more than 80 percent through the book, I have...