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Book Review: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

May 31, 2023 egswriter

I have hEDS, so a lot of my “doing things” consists of reading books (given that I’ve been reading my…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: book review, disability representation, dragons, fantasy, fourth wing, hEDS, rebecca yarros

Book Review: Shadows of the Heart by SL Harby

May 24, 2023 egswriter

Okay, I will admit that I was a little too eager to get into this book. The end of book…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: book review, fantasy, indie author, portal fantasy, sl harby, well of shadows

Word Nerdery: What Exactly Is Literary Fiction?

May 23, 2023 egswriter

Do you remember going to English class in school and having to read some frankly bizarre books? One of my…

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Posted in: word nerdery Filed under: fiction writing, linguist, linguistics, literary fiction, word nerdery

Word Nerdery: The Continuing Evolution of Slang

May 16, 2023 egswriter

Slang is, frankly, one of the most consistent—and confusing—ways of acknowledging that life is changing all around us. The 2022…

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Posted in: word nerdery Filed under: evolution of language, fiction writing, linguistics, slang, word nerdery

Book Review: 1000 Fun Facts for Immature Adults by Bryan Spektor

May 10, 2023 egswriter

I will preface this review by saying: I love trivia. I love collecting weird facts to pull out when they…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: book review, fun facts, indie author, trivia

Word Nerdery: Constructed Languages and Fiction Writing – The Epitome of Nerdery

May 8, 2023 egswriter

Surely, there is nothing quite so marvellously nerdy as learning a fictional language, or creating a fictional language and then…

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Posted in: word nerdery Filed under: conlang, constructed languages, editor, fiction writing, linguistics, word nerdery

Word Nerdery: The Art of Saying Hello – Greetings and Small Talk in Fiction

April 25, 2023 egswriter

Pardon my beginning this article with an effusive declaration of how cool language is, but I couldn’t help myself. Language…

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Posted in: word nerdery Filed under: advice from the editor, fiction writing, language, linguistics, phatic communication, small talk, word nerdery, writing advice

Kamatari and Minoru Hate Bones and Ash in their Death Stew by Dan R. Arman

April 14, 2023 egswriter

This book was a bit of a surprise to me. I thought it was a full-length novel, and it is…sort…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: anthology, book review, indie author, indie fantasy, short stories

Slip by Michael Pogach

April 12, 2023 egswriter

I honestly had no idea what to expect when I picked up Slip by Michael Pogach. I know him as…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: book review, indie author, michael pogach, mystery, paranormal mystery, slip, thriller

Book Review: Enemy Mine by Stephen Eagles

April 7, 2023 egswriter

People like to draw lines between genres, and I enjoy smashing right through them. Enemy Mine by Stephen Eagles is…

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Posted in: book review Filed under: book review, indie author, jessie richter, stephen eagles, thriller book

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