Tag: fantasy

• Ten New Releases I’m Looking Forward To in 2021

  You are not alone. By that statement I mean you are not alone in your ever-growing “TBR” pile. #amiright? Please excuse that lame use of a hashtag in a blog post. It seemed like an opportune moment! Also opportune: new releases! I feel like I’ve read nothing but older titles for the past few years, […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  10 Mar 2021

  All About Them Books, The Blog

  A Companion for the Count, A Proper Scoundrel, A Torn Allegiance, Age of Auroras, books, Castle of Refuge, Devil in Disguise, Esther Hatch, fantasy, Heather B. Moore, historical fiction, Jen Geigle Johnson, Jennie Goutet, Lisa Kleypas, Martha Keyes, Melanie Dickerson, Michele Ashman, NA, new reads, new release, new releases, Philippa Holds Court, Regency, Romance, Sally Britton, Shari L. Tapscott, The Crown of Rosamund, The Widow and the Highlander, Until Vienna, YA

• The Ten Days Ten Books Challenge

  Guess what? I’m on vacation! Since my trip to DC and the Library of Congress was cancelled earlier this year (which would’ve been an amazing trip, by the way), my family and I have decided to visit a town much closer to home for my birthday week. Call me crazy if you like, but I’ve […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  20 Sep 2020

  All About Them Books, The Blog

  A Lady Most Dangerous, A Lady Out of Time, A Midwinter's Wedding, adult, Adventure, Andrea Penrose, Brittany Fichter, Caroline Hanson, fantasy, historical fiction, Inheriting Trouble, KM Shea, Magical Misperception, Melanie Cellier, Murder at Kensington Palace, Neverland Falling, Pippa of Lauramore, Sea of Starlight, Shari L. Tapscott, Suzanne G. Rogers, TBR, The Prince's Bargain, Wendy May Andrews, YA, Young adult

• All The Tropes I Want to Use But Won’t

  When I first looked up writing tips, the word “trope” popped up everywhere – on YouTube, on Twitter and Facebook and Pinterest. Enter in a whole new world of terms to sift through. Let’s begin discussing tropes. To be unequivocally cliche here, Webster’s Dictionary defines a TROPE as: “a word or expression used in a […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  13 Jun 2019

  The Blog, The Writing Journey

  #authorblog, #writingprompt, authors, fantasy, indieauthors, silverblade.net, The Writing Cooperative, Tropes, Writer, Writer’s Block, writer’s corner, Writer’s Life, writers, Writing, writing community, writing inspiration, Writing problems, Writing Process, writing tips, writing trends

• What Inspired Project Firedamp

  It was literally a dream. Without sounding prophetical or in need of being admitted to an asylum, that is exactly how the idea for Firedamp came about. A dream. The kind of dream that was so vivid that you wake up after and you have to wonder if it actually happened or not. So I had […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  20 Aug 2017

  The Blog, The Writing Journey

  #historicalfiction, amwriting, fantasy, Firedamp, history, Novel, Pennsylvania, research, Writing