“I am wearing a Claire Barrow x Heaven Marc Jacobs t-shirt with a Vivienne Westwood tartan bag and some Xocoi clogs. Bag and clogs are thrifted form Swop. As a painter I am inspired mostly by curious colour/pattern combinations. I love clothing as a chance to be creative in an everyday sense.”
Since it’s the spookiest time of year, I’ve been playing two very different horror games, the Resident Evil 2 remake and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, and they’re both excellent in wildly different ways!
October. The time of year when ‘too much rain’ replaces ‘too much sun’ as Britain’s dominant weather pattern. But also Spooky Month! Time for horror games.
Even though I would call myself a Resident Evil fan, I’ve not actually played a RE game since RE0 on my cousin’s GameCube circa 2002. A lot of the earlier games I was too young to play, and by the time I was old enough, they were coming out…
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Blogger Weekly July 15th 2022 - #Writing Mae Clair, #Kindness John Howell, #Funnies The Story Reading Ape, #Nostalgia Darlene Foster, #Tafftrail Judith Barrow
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Blogger Weekly July 15th 2022 – #Writing Mae Clair, #Kindness John Howell, #Funnies The Story Reading Ape, #Nostalgia Darlene Foster, #Tafftrail Judith Barrow
A small selection of posts I have enjoyed this week and I hope you will head over to enjoy in full.. thanks Sally
Mae Clair writing for Story Empire, takes us through her writing implements from pen and paper to top of the range computer programmes.. I can certainly relate and it is a wonderful measure of how far we have come in the last 50 years.
Head over to enjoy the nostalgic look at how we…
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Blogger Weekly July 15th 2022 - #Writing Mae Clair, #Kindness John Howell, #Funnies The Story Reading Ape, #Nostalgia Darlene Foster, #Tafftrail Judith Barrow
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Blogger Weekly July 15th 2022 – #Writing Mae Clair, #Kindness John Howell, #Funnies The Story Reading Ape, #Nostalgia Darlene Foster, #Tafftrail Judith Barrow
A small selection of posts I have enjoyed this week and I hope you will head over to enjoy in full.. thanks Sally
Mae Clair writing for Story Empire, takes us through her writing implements from pen and paper to top of the range computer programmes.. I can certainly relate and it is a wonderful measure of how far we have come in the last 50 years.
Head over to enjoy the nostalgic look at how we…
Fools in Love (ANTHOLOGY BOOK REVIEW) || Is romance... cute?
Fools in Love (ANTHOLOGY BOOK REVIEW) || Is romance… cute?
No, literally, this made smile a ton while reading 😄 I think it’s because all the stories are founded in tropes. So I’ll be reviewing this the same way I did Up All Night. Little reviews for each story with asterisks by my favourites.
Disclaimer: I received this e-arc through Edelweiss and the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. The featured image is my own. The summary is taken…
🖤 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
❤️ Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
💛 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
💚 I'm a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz
🖤 Real Life by Brandon Taylor
❤️ Ruthless Pamela Jean by Carol Denise Mitchell
💛 The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
💚 Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
🖤 Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney
❤️ The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
💛 That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole
💚Work for It by Talia Hibbert
🖤 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
❤️ The Deep by Rivers Solomon
💛 How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
💚 Running With Lions by Julian Winters
🖤 Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
❤️ This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
💛 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
💚 This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
🖤 Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
❤️ Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia
💛 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
💚 The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
🖤 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
❤️ You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
💛 Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
💚 Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
🖤 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann
❤️ A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney
💛 Power & Magic by Joamette Gil
💚 The Black Veins by Ashia Monet
🖤 Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
❤️ The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
💛 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
💚 Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
🖤 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
❤️ Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
💛 A Phoenix First Must Burn (edited) by Patrice Caldwell
💚 Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
🖤 Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles
❤️ Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad
💛 Darling by K. Ancrum
💚 The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
🖤 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
❤️ Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
💛 Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
💚 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
🖤 How to Dispatch a Human by Stephanie Andrea Allen
❤️ Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
💛 The Essential June Jordan (edited) by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller
💚 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
🖤 A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
❤️ Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
💛 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
💚 Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
🖤 Masquerade by Anne Shade
❤️ One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
💛 Soulstar by C.L. Polk
💚 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
🖤 Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
❤️ Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
💛 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
💚 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
🖤 If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
❤️ Sweethand by N.G. Peltier
💛 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
💚 Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
🖤 Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett
❤️ Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
💛 Memorial by Bryan Washington
💚 Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
🖤 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
❤️ How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
💛 Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackosn
💚 Mouths of Rain (edited) by Briona Simone Jones
🖤 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
❤️ Love's Divine by Ava Freeman
💛 The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
💚 Odd One Out by Nic Stone
🖤 Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden
❤️ Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas
💛 The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
💚 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
🖤 Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
❤️ My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
💛 Pleasure and Spice by Fiona Zedde
💚 No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
🖤 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
❤️ Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
💛 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
💚 Peaces by Helen Oyeyem
🖤 The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
❤️ Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
💛 Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San
💚 The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera
🖤 King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
❤️ By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery
💛 Busy Ain't the Half of It by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar Cruz
💚 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
🖤 Sin Against the Race by Gar McVey-Russell
❤️ Trumpet by Jackie Kay
💛 Remembrance by Rita Woods
💚 Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo
🖤 You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour
❤️ The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters
💛 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
💚 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyem
The concept here is to send in a question or a letter request, and you’ll get a response from your fictional character of choice, from the list below. Please stick to the list I’ve made, but of course, you can ask if there’s some other characters I write for, I don’t always remember all the shows, movies or books I’ve consumed over the years and I’m sure I’m missing a lot 😅
Status: New Characters added - Thursday March 21st, 2024