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BTLN Chapter 19

Oh, hey, is that an image from an Ava short story? Why would I put that here, I WONDER. For those that are here because they've read the Sam books or ...

TBR of Doom--Animal Sidekick Edition

It should surprise absolutely no one that I have long been a fan of animal sidekicks in stories. If you give me even the slightest chance, I'll put one in there. I mean, look at my books. HMCN has Taco and the giant crow. In Firebug half the peopl...

BTLN Chapter 18

The battle to get this story up today! My laptop stop letting me upload files a bit back, so I had to update my laptop, which was its own saga. And even now while I'm trying to type this up, my son interrupted me because apparently one of his tire...

TBR of Doom -- Older Protaganist Edition

Recently I was hand sold a book by a B&N Bookseller that had the premise, "It's like if Sam & Dean's mom from Supernatural had her own series where she fights paranormal creatures" and honestly that was enough for me. The real sell? An old...

Rough Around the Hedges Snippet

Okay, sent off the next chapter of Big Trouble, Little Necromancer to the copy editor, so that should be up soon-ish. (Depending on Mel's schedule, as she has like five jobs and does this out of the kindness of her heart.)

In the mean time, ...

TBR of Doom, Holiday Book Pairing Edition

Do we need more books? No, probably not. Do we want more books? Always. This time I've picked a couple of my favorite holiday movies (we use the term reaaaal loosely around these parts) and matched them up with a book that I think fits. Let's see ...

Team Sam Text Convo

Enjoy! -Lish

Pre-Gaming Thanksgiving

James: My phone has been suspiciously silent.

Sam: How so?

Ramon: Aww, are you sad that I haven’t been sending you sweet nothings this morning? O...

Books that Make You Hungry

I was going to do some sort of grateful post, but that's a bit difficult to tie into books? I'm grateful books exist? I'm also super grateful that my google skills finally resulted in me being able to find these two books I read in my youth that I...

Text Convo Poll!

It's that time of year--aka Mashed Potato Day--and in the past I've offered up a text conversation between my characters as a treat/distraction from a (possibly) terrible day. (I feel like a lot of people want to skip Mashed Potato day and just go...

'Tis the Season TBR

We are barreling into the holiday season. There's a lot I like about the upcoming 6-8 weeks, but it's also a bit exhausting and hahahaha family can be a lot, right?

I stock up on books for the season, not just because I sometimes have more t...

Rough Around the Hedges Snippet

I turned in my next YA book to my editor on Monday and I'm still playing catch up. My brain, it is the pudding. 

In the mean time, I thought I'd share a short Rough Around the Hedges Snippet! This one is from Van's POV. Enjoy!

-Li...

TBR -- Native American Heritage Month

Hello, friends! It's my weekly menacing of your TBR pile. Look at me, just adding to it with willful abandon! This week's focus is going to be something that doesn't get a lot of love--Indigenous authors in genre fiction. I'm just going to give yo...

Post Birthday Text Exchange

If my math is right, Sam just turned 21. (In the books. In real life he'd be almost in his 30s...and now I feel old.) My math could be wrong, but either way, he just had a birthday, and I figured the day after his 21st would be a fun time.

A...

TBR Pile of Doom

I just keep adding, don't I? Sorry, not sorry, I guess. I mean, I just want to drag everyone down to my level. Normally this post would be for upper tier folks and then released to everyone a week later, but in honor of spooky day, I'm putting it ...

Happy Birthday, Sam!

I'm revising today before I take Smalls trick or treating, so I'm not much fun today. But I also thought, today is a good day for treats! It's the spookiest of days! We must celebrate!

So, treat one:

You may have already seen this, but...

BTLN Chapter 17

Woo! Finally. I'm deep in revisions for the next YA book that's due...in 4 days. HAHAHAHAHA. Oof. Revisions make my brain very tired. I also miss drafting. That's my favorite part of writing a book, the part where I just do whatever I want and don...

Snippet

I have the next Sam chapter sent off to Mel so she can clean it up for me. In the mean time, here's a little snippet from my current YA book that I've been calling the Frontier book but right now has the placeholder title of Beasts All Around. (I'...

Witchy Book Recs

I'm not sure why I love witch characters so much, but I do. I don't love *all* witchy books, but I'll certainly at least pick them up and check them out if I find out there's a witch involved. I think I just love to see different takes on magic? A...

Necromancers for Your TBR to Tide You Over

Today is fun, because we've continued on the theme of "the air is poison." So I wobble between being swamped with anxiety over being behind on everything and feeling too sick from the air to care. It's fun! I do not recommend it.

Smalls is a...

Question Time!

Hello, friends. We have some new folks around here (Welcome!) and some amazing it's been a minute since I did one of these, so I figured I'd post one. (Thanks, copy editor Mel, for the suggestion!) To be clear, you can always ask me questions on h...

Rough Around the Hedges Snippet

I'm currently working on the new BTLN chapter, but I'm behind. I already had a massive workload the last few months, and all of the smoke really isn't helping matters. Not only does it make me ill, but today my son is home because he was coughing ...

Horror Comedies

Lately I've been posting bookish posts in an attempt to make your TBR insurmountable because I like to share my pain. Since it is the spooky season, I thought I'd take a moment to add to your To Watch list instead. Here is a short list of horror c...

Rough Around the Hedges Snippet

I'm at a writing retreat this weekend trying to finish up the YA novel that's due at the end of October to my publisher, so no BTLN this week. BUT, I didn't want to give you nothing this week so I thought I'd share a snippet of Rough Arou...

It's Spooky Book Season!

This is a topic I'm well-versed in. As you might imagine, I often get asked about books on the spookier side of things. I love a good scary story, though to be honest, I prefer mine with a dash of humor to them. In case some of you are looking for...

BTLN Chapter 16

New chapter! Woot woot! (And by that I mean, enjoy!)

-Lish

Someone Please Let Me Live in This Photo, Thanks

I am one of those assholes who love Fall. Winter is cool, too. Spring has its moments. Summer is fine, even though it's often trying to kill me, but it is not my season. I never wanted a Hot Girl Summer. (Not shaming you if you do. Embrace whateve...

BTLN Chapter 15

A short chapter this time--was trying to get it posted yesterday, but *ugh* I have been drowning in work. I'm excited about all the things I've got going on, it's just also a lot.

I'm hoping to get another BTLN chapter posted this week. ...

Favorite Rereads

I am a huge fan of rereading. I know, I know, there are so many new books out there. How can I waste precious reading time on books I've already read? This is a valid argument...but hear me out.

I reread for a few reasons. First, be...

BTLN Chapter 14

I'm trying to decide if this is the most disgusting chapter I've ever written or not. Maybe? I would apologize, but I'm honestly not sorry. 

Shout out to Peter for correctly guessing where I got the phrase "Bathory Ritual" from.  2022-09-18 20:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Book recs! (And me shamelessly plugging my friend's books)

Some of these are older, some I'm reading RIGHT NOW, and some are freshly exorcised from my mountain-like TBR pile.

First up is In Nightfall, by Young. I'm just cracking into this one now and it isn't out yet. (2...