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Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy anthology, edited by Ameriie (Review Copy) - Leave it to the heroes to save the world--villains just want to rule the world.In this unique Y… Read More

Theme-Conflict IntegrationPart 5DEFIANT by Dave Bara Previous Parts in Theme-Conflict Integration:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/08/theme-conflict-integration-part-1.htmlht… Read More

– Poetry and Healing with Roger Sippl – The Sweater The doctors tell me the main tumor in my chest is the size of a softball. She uses a double strand of yarn and thin knitti… Read More

Nominados a los Premios Eisner 2018 Este es el listado de los Nominados a los Premios Eisner 2018. Destacan las nominaciones de varias obras y autores españoles, donde sorprende ver… Read More

So the first half of the year is almost over! Where has the time gone? I really don't know - I'm sure it was only January last week! But with the second half of the year comes more book… Read More

Dictionary of Marketing Terms and Acronyms Check out this brief dictionary of the most common marketing terms and acronyms! The marketing industry is packed with terminology that only marke… Read More

Today for Mental Illness in YA Month, I have YA author of The Girl and the Grove, Eric Smith, stopping by to talk about his latest novel, and how his protagonist, Leila, has seasonal affecti… Read More

A Response to Rumi – by Barbara Heagy –  Not Here – by Rumi – There’s courage involved if you want to become truth There is a broken-open place in a love… Read More

Ganadores Premios Eisner 2018 MEJOR HISTORIA CORTA “Ethel Byrne”, Cecil Castelluci y Scott Chantler, en Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planne… Read More

Mental Illness in YA Month is coming to an end, so I thought my penultimate post should highlight YA novels and teen non-fic featuring/about mental illness that are yet to come out that I'm… Read More

One Cut at a Time – Nonfiction by Chelsea Grieve – Part One Nerves danced beneath my skin, prickling and intensifying with each passing moment. The TV droned in the background… Read More

Moshe – Fierce Fiction by Heidi Schwartz – September 8, 2018 I am six years old and I go to Yeshiva and my name is Moshe. In summer there is an old woman who lives in the radiat… Read More

Shanghai Dumplings – Fierce Fiction by Susan M. Breall –  I sat alone at the Shanghai Dumpling King on 34th Avenue in the same seat she always sat in.  I came on a Thu… Read More

Laptops Theft is a Huge Deal. Use these Tips for Preventing the Theft of your Laptop. Think about your laptop and what you use it for. No matter what, your computer needs to be protecte… Read More

Theme-Character IntegrationPart 14The Family ManPrevious entries in Theme-Character Integration are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/07/index-to-theme-character-integ… Read More

October is just round the corner, and so Halloween isn't far away, either! So I thought I would try and read books throughout the month that fit! Here is a rough TBR for October, full of sto… Read More

Dog Men (A Prison Story) – Poem by Cody Marsh –  On edge of a razor-guarded campus,  Marigolds tower to meet drooping pines. Though unaware as cheerful children, Dry Te… Read More

I’ve been wanting to get this Geek of Week feature going for some time now, and I figure what better time than when a fellow geeky mom just released a new book and is doing a giveaway?… Read More

2019 Dreamers Pushcart Prize Nominations …we’re pleased to announce our 2019 Pushcart Prize nominations! The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses honours the best poems, fi… Read More

Today is my stop on the #PULPstories Tour, the blog tour for Robin Talley's latest novel, Pulp, which was published on 16th November! Robin is stopping by the blog with a guest post, recomme… Read More

The Years -Non-fiction by Julia Anne Miller –   May 2015 I am sitting on an exercise bike, slowly moving my feet, circling, circling, pushing just enough to barely move the pedals… Read More

“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News” – Poetry by Annette Gagliardi – In Her Garden Big mama said she’s plum gone there’s no more chunky, cop… Read More

Swallowed – Fierce Fiction by George Ayliffe When we made love, I thought of nothing but the parakeets. They were four floors below in Samantha’s study. I feared they were starv… Read More

The Comfort of Strangers -Fierce Fiction by Caroline Misner- It was me who dropped the box of Band-Aids into the toilet. None of us wanted to admit it, but Ben and Jimmy had nothing to conf… Read More

CGMagazineMike Cosimano This was a surprisingly tough list to write! There was a lot of good TV this year, but more importantly, there was a lot of interesting TV this year, and that’… Read More

Fight in the Goodwill – Fierce Fiction by Lane Mullin –  The window display in the Goodwill relied on an imaginative employee. Sometimes washed, occasionally smokey, and al… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.In February, Imi of Imi Reviews Books and Ellie of Faerie on the Shelf are hosting F/F February - a month long reading challenge "to get as many people re… Read More

Reviews 46The Private Eye Genre Progresses Reviews have not been indexed, but you may find most of these posts by searching this blog for keyword Review.In Reviews 45, we looked at the… Read More

By the mid-70's, punk rock had emerged and had a definitive impact on the artistic style of concert posters. The artists creating the music, fashion and visual art adhe… Read More

The Burning Times  – Fierce Fiction by Caroline Misner –   Adele had known the man whose body was found nestled among the bags of expired bread behind the 7-11. H… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.January saw the creation of a brand new, specific diverse reading challenge! Year of the Asian Reading Challenge 2019 is a reading challenge to… Read More

Announcing the Dreamers Year 1 Anthology I’m pleased to announce the launch of the first ever Dreamers anthology. The Dreamers anthology contains all 119 poems, stories and essa… Read More

An Interview with Angie Abdou An interview with Canadian author, Angie Abdou, featuring writing from the heart, writing as an act of radical empathy, and writing without urgency. ANGI… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.Welcome to Once Upon a Retelling! I'm a huge fan of retellings, and I'm really interested in hearing about authors' own love of the original stories, and… Read More

The Oppressor and the Oppressed Within – Non-Fiction by Connie Pertuz-Meza – Days shy of my fortieth birthday, I attended a class with master writing teacher Laleh Khadivi… Read More

CGMagazineLiam Ferguson The last two ‘Alien’ short films in its celebratory six-part anthology will be premiering this Friday during Alien Day. These shorts have been rel… Read More

Book Review of Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything: Notes on Hope – Book Review by Catherine Lanser – A few months back I had an opportunity to see Anne Lamott spea… Read More

The Other Eleven Months of the Year -Non-Fiction by Andrea Rosenhaft – I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1991 at thirty years-old, following my second… Read More

Sapphic RetellingsThis post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.I'm wanting to try and read more f… Read More

How Do You Know If You've Written A ClassicPart 3Podcast Interview With Jacqueline LichtenbergPrevious parts in "How do you know if you've written a classic?" series are:Part 1 in this Serie… Read More

Bloggers Get Real: Aly of Of WonderlandWelcome to Bloggers Get Real! Inspired by CW of The Quiet Pond's The Pond Gets Loud series, Bloggers Get Real is a YA book bloggers spotlight interview… Read More

kindled – Poetry by Nan Williamson – This morning, my body unfurls from sleep, soft sheets teasing bare breasts, groin thrumming.    Outside my window, a go… Read More

I first met James Sillwood after a presentation by the talented Jersey writing trio The Blonde Plotters, at the 2017 Jersey Festival of Words.   After the session, James asked if anyone… Read More

Sime~Gen Book 15Now in Kindle, iBooks, and Paper Here we are now in 2020, and just at the end of 2019, the 15th volume of my Sime~Gen Series appeared on Amazon, Apple iBooks, and probab… Read More

Targeting a ReadershipPart 18Targeting a CulturePrevious parts of the Targeting a Readership series are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/10/index-to-targeting-reader… Read More

The rise on social media right now with regard to outing abusers and past traumatic memories reminded me of this interesting anthology series that many are unaware of. Channel Zero is a wond… Read More

How Do You Know If You've Written A ClassicPart 8What Do Readers Do?Previous parts of this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/03/index-to-how-do-you-know-if-y… Read More

Scare Package is an anthology horror-comedy movie on the streaming service Shudder. The movie pays tribute to classic horror tropes, icons and genres and is absolutely gory to its core. A… Read More

Bored at home? Well, we have the perfect list of 7 exciting Netflix TV shows to binge on this week. Because let’s face it, movies sometimes don’t cover the boredom that we face w… Read More

DC continues to expand its digital comic book releases with the launch of Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red. DC Comics celebrates Harley Quinn by giving the former Joker sidekick a digi… Read More

Homemade is an Italian-Chilean anthology series produced by filmmakers from all over the world. Each of the short stories talk about life during the coronavirus pandemic, that has nearly cri… Read More

Plot-Character IntegrationPart 3The Starring Character For A SeriesPart 1 - The 3/4 Point Pivot Part 1 - The Worm Turnshttps://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/06/plot-character-integrat… Read More

In the last 100 years, we got extremely overwhelmed concerning joy. This is no small thing. The method we define joy drives what we do, just what we want to compromise, and how we s… Read More

Plot-Character IntegrationPart 2Finding Your Opening ScenePrevious Parts in Plot-Character Integration are:Part 1 - The 3/4 Point Pivot Part 1 - The Worm Turnshttps://aliendjinnromances.blog… Read More

Interview with Anthony Darnellon Star Trek Lives! 45th AnniversaryHere are 3 versions of an interview Jean Lorrah and I did with a professional (very professional skilled) journali… Read More

GENRE: Contemporary, LGBTQ Erotic RomanceCan an accident and a rim job lead to lasting love?Aiden Connor isn't looking for a date. Sure, he wants one, but relationships seem to be too diffic… Read More

Since its creation in the early 1830s, cinema has and continues to entertain and fascinate the world. People quote movie lines in their daily conversations, they wear shirts featuring on-scr… Read More

Passover Muffins with Almond FlourThis blog series on Romance genre blending with Science Fiction, and how the inside of a writer's mind grinds fine ideas and churns out novels, is winding d… Read More

WOODCUTTER’S GRIM SERIES— Classic Tales of Horror Retold by Karen WiesnerSupernatural Fantasy Romance/Mild HorrorFor the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's… Read More

An evening at the La Scala in Milan twirls the lives of five people into a web of rivalry, intrigues, heartaches, obsession, murder, loss, and revenge. “… for those who love se… Read More