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COVER REVEAL; Facets, A Short Story Compilation
It’s so much weirder doing one of these for myself. I love hyping up books, and fawning over gorgeous covers for my anticipated reads, but doing a reveal for myself? A little bit odd, I’m not going to lie. What do I even say? But that’s right, this one’s for me! While I’ve fallen behind on edits, I have managed to put together a cover I love and I wanted to share it. Thanks to the resources found on Unsplash a little bit of my own art. The final round of edits are taking longer than I hoped, and I still have formatting to do, so publishing the compilation has…
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NEWSLETTER SNIPPETS; Issue #1
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in want of engagement must put herself on multiple platforms. Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself. My first newsletter went out at the end of September. I’m still figuring out what I’ll be putting on there, what the layout will look like – I’ve already made some changes since the first issue went out – but a few things I know for sure: You can sign up here! Reading is one thing I talk about here, so you’re mostly up to date with what I’ve finished this year. I also found an audiobook of Howl’s Moving…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; September Round Up
This month’s prompt was something different – a little longer than could fit on my graphic too! – but so much fun. Chosen by L’poni Baldwin, the full prompt included a video to give more inspiration. What would your character do if they could flee to any world in their universe? Would they make it their new vacation home? Try to take over? The decision and story can be based around their motivation. Perhaps your characters need a vacation. Or Your character is thrown into the worst possibly world in their universe. Is it a planet of eldritch creatures? A planet full of natural disasters where only perseverance can help…
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REVIEW; Of Princes And Promises
Title: Of Princes And PromisesSeries: St. Rosetta’s AcademyAuthor: Sandhya MenonGenre: Retelling, contemporary, romance.Type: HardcoverPublisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her crown may be slightly askew after her ex-boyfriend, Alaric, cheated on her, but she’s a LaValle. She’ll find a way to march right back in there, her hands clutching the strings to the whole puppet show. This time, she’s going to be untouchable. Rahul Chopra knows that moment he shared with Caterina LaValle at the winter formal meant something. Surely she feels it, too. He’s a little uncertain how someone like him (socially inept to a point way past “adorkable”)…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; August Round Up
We really did decide to switch things up for the new year of prompts. And I couldn’t be more excited about it! This time around Hannah Joy suggested interviewing our OCs, and of course we’ve all got different approaches to it. I think they speak for themselves, really. I don’t explicitly mention it in the story, but in my mind, this was absolutely connected to a previous short story in this series. Can you guess which? INDEX:Lou Yardley – Interview With MorgaKelsey Clarey – From The Journal Of Kairi HirataMorris Wayts – Interview at the CampfireAradhna Kaur (me!) – The Questionnaire And as per usual, any prompt fills going up…
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REVIEWS; We Hunt The Flame / We Free The Stars
Title: We Hunt The FlameSeries: Sands Of ArawiyaAuthor: Hafsah FaizalGenre: Fantasy, romance.Type: HardcoverPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya–but neither wants to be. War is brewing, and…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; July Round Up
This month marked the 12th month of the Author Avengers taking a single prompt and coming up with our own individual takes on it. Can you believe it? I sure can’t! To mark the occasion, Victoria Audley chose this July’s theme a little differently. And it was perfect – a single word, the first time we’ve taken a prompt like this. I had a lot of fun with this one, and already it seems the approaches are going to be vastly unique. I hope you enjoy! INDEX:Victoria Audley – Gentle AlchemyMorris Wayts – A Yearly DanceAradhna Kaur (me!) – Of Sacrifices And Monsters As per usual, any story going up after this post will…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; Prompt-versary
Tomorrow will mark the 12th story I’ve written and posted for the Author Avengers prompts. It’s been an entire year of vastly different prompts that I then decided all took place in the same universe. albeit in various dimensions and times. Turning these unconnected (for the most part) stories into a large-interconnected web has been an interesting challenge for myself, and has encouraged me to also use World Anvil to further build the world I call Ajahta. Am I going to keep at doing every month’s prompt? I hope so, but I’m not going to be as stringent about it perhaps. Who knows what the future holds, after all? And…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; June Round Up
It’s difficult to believe this is the eleventh month we have been doing this. Next month will mark an ENTIRE YEAR of prompts and the stories that have come from it. This month’s prompt was given by kabu, and it was a fun one! I wound up with something a little experimental that I connected to an older (non-prompt) story. (And then I started reading an old favourite with dragons earlier this week… Seems to be a dragonified month… LOL.) INDEX:Aradhna Kaur (me!) – The End – And Beginning – Of Eras As per usual, any story going up after this post will be linked in here! If you like…
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SPOTLIGHT; M.A. Vice in an Interview with the Author
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these types of posts. But when I found out The Impavidus Cycle was getting new paperbacks, I jumped on the chance to be a part of the cover reveal. They were posted everywhere on the 14th – I even changed up my bookstagram upload schedule for this and I regret nothing – and then I thought, hey, you know what? I’m going to ask Meg a few questions as well if she is up for it. She was, and I am so grateful to her for the chance of not just sharing the new covers – aren’t they gorgeous? – but…