daniellethamasa
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My name is Danielle Thamasa and I am a self-published author of fantasy and paranormal novels, a librarian, a book blogger, a ML for my local NaNoWriMo region, a lover of all things revolving around books and writing.
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Weekend Writer: The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments by John Matthew Fox
Hey all, Sam here.
Okay, so I know that I dropped the ball when it came to my Weekend Writer posts in the month of May. Obviously I didn’t manage to get a prompt post created, but I also didn’t share my writing from my prompts in April, so I’ll share that post next week, and then I’ll be back to having writing prompts for June.
Of course, thankfully I do still have time to talk about the…
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NetGalley Review: Queen of None by Natania Barron
Hey all, Sam here.
Apparently we’re going from a YA book that features an online game based on Arthurian legend to a fantasy romance that is a twist on Arthurian legend. So that’s fun. Anyway, I’m really trying to get some posts prepped and written and scheduled. No promises that we’ll be able to stay consistent longer than the next week, but I’m really hoping it happens.
Today’s book review is…
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NetGalley Review: Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Hey all, Sam here.
I am so far behind on all of my book reviewing, and my book writing….and just life in general it feels like. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so hard on myself, but I look back at the history of this blog to when I actually was posting like 10-12 posts each week and getting all sorts of views and likes and comments, and now I don’t really get anything (and yes, part of that is because I…
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April Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here.
So I finished…10 books in April. That’s honestly not bad at all, although it is still lower than what I’m used to. When I was really dialed in to my reading and blogging, so around 2018-2019, I was reading something like 20 books each month, and posting something like 45 posts per month. It was amazing and ridiculous….and I ended up suffering some major blogging burnout. And I…
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Manga Review: Manga Classics - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Crystal Chan, and SunNeko Lee
Hey all, Sam here.
All right…let’s see if I can get back on track with my review schedule, because I am falling more and more behind with every little hiatus I take, and that is not fun for me. It’s starting to get difficult to try and find a balance between my overdue reviews and my upcoming release reviews. If I could have a few days to just sit down and do nothing other than write up these…
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May TBR
Hey all, Sam here.
Well, as we reach the end of another month, it makes sense to start looking forward to what I’m hoping to read in the upcoming month. Now, this year has been a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to actually following through with the TBR, because I often get distracted by other books, or there’s other stuff going on and I don’t have as much free time to dedicate to reading as I…
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Book Review: A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Hey all, Sam here.
I’m going to start off this post by calling myself out, because this is not the first book by Hafsah Faizal that I’ve read. It’s just the first one I’ve reviewed, even though I meant to review her debut novel a couple years ago…so my current plan is to do a re-read of that one so I can finally get an actual review posted. I have no plan for a time frame on this, but it will…
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WIP Wednesday - April 17, 2024
Hey all, Sam here.
Well, it has certainly been awhile since the last WIP Wednesday post popped up on this blog. I’m trying to work on getting back into a more consistent schedule, in terms of reading, writing, blogging, and just life in general. Obviously I can’t promise anything, but I’m trying to get things together.
For the most part though, I think the WIP Wednesdays will be pretty easy to…
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Manga Review: One Piece Vol 4 by Eiichiro Oda
Hey all, Sam here.
Well, here’s a review that was supposed to be up last year and just ended up sitting in the drafts folder for WAY too long. I had planned to review one volume a week until I had reviewed the 12 volumes covering the first season of the live-action adaptation coming to Netflix…and obviously I went into a blogging hiatus and that did not happen.
Since I do want to get back to…
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Book Review: Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup
Hey all, Sam here.
I’d love to have the energy and enthusiasm to write up a great intro for today’s post, but even just sticking to my blogging plan and getting these posts finished and scheduled is proving problematic thanks to my mental health being in a rough patch right now. But I’m going to get through these posts, at least for the next couple days, and then when I get to my “weekend,”…
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NetGalley Review: Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
Hey all, Sam here.
Yeah, I definitely planned to have this review up on Tuesday, but things got a little topsy-turvy for a few days, so I had to push back everything on my blog schedule so I could accommodate the fact that I had mostly prepared four posts but then didn’t finish/schedule them. I’ll figure out a work/blog/life schedule that works for me eventually.
Anyway, I definitely wanted to…
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Weekend Writer: Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig
Hey all, Sam here.
At the moment I’m not sure if the writing advice I need is the gentle kind or the harsh kind. I mean, obviously I’m trying to be more gentle with myself when I have multiple days (or weeks) in a row where I’m not getting a whole lot of actual writing down, those days when I’ve maybe only thought about my characters or my world or my plot and tried to untangle some of the knots…
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Book Review: Lady of Darkness by Melissa K. Roehrich
Hey all, Sam here.
Oops…I had yesterday’s post mostly prepped but forgot to finish it and schedule it, and I got a little busy at work, so I wasn’t able to get it posted…which broke my 10 day blog streak. But, since I had the post mostly completed anyway, I’ll just do a double post tomorrow. It’ll be fine.
Anyway, I’ve been getting some decent reading time in, so hopefully I’ll be able to keep…
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Weekend Writer: April 2024 Prompts
Hey all, Sam here.
It’s the start of a new month, and that means it’s time for more Weekend Writer prompts! As I mentioned in a previous post, I am making some changes to how this blog series works, mostly because I was spending so much time prepping and writing these weekly posts and it left me so drained. I absolutely loved writing all the writing posts and doing the writing craft book deep…
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Book Review: Forged in Magic by Jenna Wolfhart
Hey all, Sam here.
Yes, the reviews just keep coming. I guess that’s what happens when it’s only April and I’ve already read 44 books this year…plus there were all the books I read in the last few months of the year last year that I didn’t talk about here. So, I’m working on catching up a bit. It’s going to take time, especially if I keep reading at a decent pace.
For today’s book review, I’m…
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NetGalley Review: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L Jensen
Hey all, Sam here.
It’s been a fun few days trying to get everything planned out for the month of April. Considering that I have a good number of books I want to read, plus my April Writing goal of adding 30k to my current WIP, I wanted to have as much of this month’s blogging planned out as possible, so I wouldn’t need to stress out about what post to prep up for each day.
Honestly, I’m hoping…
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March Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here.
Well…March was not nearly as good of a reading month as January or February. While I read 20 books in January and 16 in February, I only managed 8 books in the month of March. And okay, that’s still a pretty good amount of books, especially for the average person. I’m just so used to reading a dozen or more books every month.
But I keep telling myself that I did also spend a…
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