Musing Mondays (50) &It's Monday! (47)

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 This week’s musing is…

Have you ever considered writing a book before? What genre would you write?

  Why, yes! I've known I wanted to be a writer since 1) I discovered Tamora Pierce's books, and 2) I tried my hand at writing at the age of 13. Though if you ask my mom, the need to have pencil and paper in my hand began much more before (lol). So, now, twelve years later I'm getting a MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill U. My thesis is a YA Paranormal Romance currently about half-way done (40k out of 80k goal). I've also started dabbling on a scifi piece on the side, though I soon realized that I needed to do a lot of research to get the hang of it (I don't read much scifi). I also have a fantasy story world created with plans for a novel, but have only done a short story in that world. Must have been a good story though, since it got me into the Seton Hill program ^___~

Out This Week!

Sweet Shadows (Medusa Sisters 2) 

by Tera Lynn Childs

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Three teenage descendants of Medusa, now united, must claim their heritage to fight the monsters escaped from the abyss.

Gretchen may have known she was a descendant of Medusa long before her sisters--after all, she's spent her life fighting the monsters that escape the abyss--but that doesn't mean it will be easy to teach the other girls the ropes.

Greer has pressing social commitments on her plate and precious little time to train in her newfound powers. But that wretched second sight won't leave her alone, and her fabled heritage seems to be creeping into her fashionable life.

Grace has worries closer to home--like why her brother, Thane, has disappeared. He's hiding something. Could it possibly be related to the secret heritage the triplets share?

Early Review: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Unspoken

(The Lynburn Legacy)

Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

Publisher: Random House Books, 2012

Genre: YA Paranormal

Buy: Amazon ♥ B&N ♥ TBD

Overview

Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.

But all that changes when the Lynburns return.

The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the- Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?