6/10/2023 0 Comments Amanda sun ink series![]() ![]() I kept getting rejections from agents saying that they loved the novel, but that genre was a tough sell in the current market. The first one I submitted ended up winning a writing contest and publications in a literary journal, so that was a fantastic start! I finished one, and started to query agents. Up until that point, I’d written a lot, but I was having trouble finishing stories. ![]() I wrote for my high school and university papers, but it wasn’t until 2004 that I got very serious about getting published. ![]() I remember passing out short stories and fan fiction at recess to anyone who would read it. I’d always known I wanted to be a writer. NAW- Tell us about your literary journey. She has written bestselling The Paper God series. She was born in Deep River, Canada and started reading fantasy novels at 4 and writing as soon as she could hold a pencil. In university, she took English, Linguistics, and Asian History, before settling into Archaeology. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Christian hosoi skateboard![]() When it comes to the riding lifestyle, OJ is sure about one thing: skateboard wheels. Stick them to your skateboard deck, notebook, car, and more. OJ skateboard stickers feature their logo in a number of styles and designs. Their LTD Orange wheels can take on the roughest roads, like brick and cobblestone, and still provide you with a smooth and quiet ride! Nobody knows skateboard wheels better than OJ! In addition to wheels, OJ also makes skateboard stickers. OJ Logo Family skateboard wheels are made for high speeds! They come in different sizes and colors to match your skateboard deck and trucks. Thunder Juice is specifically designed for longboards. Designed in bright neon colors, their Thunder Juice wheels are big, soft, and fast! They make riding on the roughest roads feel perfectly smooth. ![]() They have many styles available that work well on different terrains. With a specialty for skateboard wheels, OJ has been a leader in the industry for over twenty years! OJ skateboard wheels are made from the best urethane formula available. Get your daily dose of Vitamin C with OJ skateboard products! Established in 1974, OJ is one of the original founding fathers of skateboard companies. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Shadowed Heart by Candace Wondrak![]() ![]() ![]() Suicidal ideation, including a suicide attemptĮnding: SpoilerKinda HFN: Heroine is still alive, she admits to the guys what happened in her past, the guys swear to kill her abuser, and the guys swear to make her 'one of them' while she's alive (they're still planning on killing her).– Includes rough sex there's also one scene with knife-play and two with strangling Looking for books by Candace Wondrak See all books authored by Candace Wondrak, including Her Wolves, and Cold Dark Souls, and more on. Gratuitous violence, including blood and gore.– Heroine is a serial killer and doesn't really care if her victims are actually bad guys (she only kills men, though) Does have the Heroes pushing the Heroine away.– Heroine knows the above but doesn't make a big deal about it because they're not exclusive (also, she has more important things to worry about). – But, one of the Heroes (we get his POV) gets with an OW after sleeping with the Heroine. ![]() *Read the trigger warnings before reading!!!* No strong representation of diverse characters or minority identities. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Dark Legacy by Jaymin Eve![]() ![]() ![]() This book was so cliched that I’ve read essentially the same story 58373 times before. I know the authors’ dedication at the front of this book was specifically to tropes, but damn. Read if you want to know why you should save yourself the money and time. Don’t read if you’re a diehard fan of this thing. WARNING: I systematically detail everything I disliked about the book. Beck wants nothing more than to break my wings, pin me to a board and watch me writhe. He calls me Butterfly, but it’s not a pet name, it’s a threat. He draws me in, and strips me of every defense I have. I didn’t want to be part of this billionaire-boys-club. There used to be five, but one of them died, leaving a fifth position that I now fill. They rule my new town, my school, and with more money than God, there’s very little out of their reach.įour gorgeous, perfect, scary boys. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Escape book by carolyn jessop![]() ![]() There, she found little in the way of support networks for women escaping polygamy. ![]() Still, one night in 2003, Jessop snuck her eight children out of the house and fled to Salt Lake City. ![]() Furthermore, she knew that no woman had ever managed to get herself and her children safely away from the community. From her earliest childhood, when she played a game called “apocalypse,” she had been taught that God punished those who disobeyed his rules. So what kept Jessop in the community? Fear. Her occasional questioning of his views, however, earned his suspicion and the condescension and mistrust of her fellow wives. In a decidedly patriarchal culture, she often spoke her mind, and she talked Merril into letting her go to college. The author’s large family lived in grinding poverty, and Jessop was constantly subjected to humiliations at the hands of her husband, Merril. This painful memoir certainly doesn’t bear much resemblance to the polygamous fantasies of the HBO series Big Love. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the author describes her life before, during and after her marriage at 18 to a 50-year-old man with three other wives. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments X men by hickman omnibus![]() ![]() 2) #19–20 Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #11–13 Incredible Hulk #363 Punisher (vol. ![]() ![]() Many of them also reprint the letters pages as found in the original comics.Īvengers #311–313, Annual #19 Avengers Spotlight #26–29 Avengers West Coast #53–55 Captain America #365–367 Iron Man #251–252 Quasar #5–7 Thor #411–413 Cloak and Dagger (vol. They often contain complete runs, either by collecting multiple consecutive issues or by focusing on the works of a particular writer or artist. Unlike Marvel's Essential line, these collections are printed on higher-quality paper stock and provide full-color compilations of multiple comics. The Marvel Omnibus series reprints comics previously printed in single-issue format. Marvel Omnibus is a line of large format, high quality, full color, hardcover graphic novel omnibuses published by Marvel Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her book Princess For Hire was optioned for film by Disney Channel and Going Vintage was recently optioned for film by Imagine Kids+Family. Lindsey has a BS in elementary education at Brigham Young University and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Many of Lindsey’s books have appeared on lists like YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Amazon's Best Books of the Year, Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and Kid's Indies Next List. She now lives in a shoe with her many children in Midway, Utah. Lindsey was born in Salt Lake City but moved to Las Vegas two days later (Her dad’s friend hitched a ride. The Chapel Wars 1st Edition is written by Lindsey Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens. She is a former teacher and present-day writer/mom/speaker/party animal. Lindsey Leavitt is the author of over a dozen books for children, tweens, and teens. ![]() ![]() Queen Ankhe has but one hope to maintain her hold on the throne - an alliance with the Hittites. The ambitious vipers Ay and Horemheb are nipping at her heels in their bid to seize power. His wife, Queen Ankhesenamen, is left without a male heir. ![]() The last living male descendant of the Amarna line, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. "An impressively ingenious reframing of the chaotic domino effect caused by King Tut's death & the tantalizing possibility of his line's survival." - Did the Amarna line really end with King Tut's Death? Thebes, Upper Egypt. ![]() "An impressively ingenious reframing of the chaotic domino effect caused by… More. Grea Alexander: Amarna Book I: Book of Ida: A fictional interpretation of the true events that took place in Ancient Egypt & Hattusa before & after Pharaoh Tutankhamun's death (Paperback) - Paperback ![]() ![]() ![]() And almost twenty years after her escape to America, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members-but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Womans Journey from War to Peace Description Book details About Le Ly Hayslip More Books By Le Ly. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. She leaves Vietnam in 1970 for the United States. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. Le Ly is a Vietnamese peasant who grows up on the central coast of Vietnam. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. Summary: It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The game strauss![]() ![]() The Game is his long, often tedious but hilarious account of how he did it. But a few years ago, a distraught Strauss decided he was a loser with women and set about transforming himself into the world's greatest pick-up artist. Like many New York women, I have always gone for balding, pale guys because they're grateful and good in bed. Reviewed by Amy SohnI never dated Neil Strauss, but I dated guys like him. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of this generation. And then things really start to get strange-and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade-guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. ![]() They live together in houses known as Projects. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. ![]() |