![]() ![]() ![]() Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about! That book didn’t go anywhere, but a dozen tries and a decade later, my debut novel, ASH PRINCESS, was published! I can’t remember a time where reading didn’t play a large part in my life and I remember being in high school, skimming the shelves of my high school library in search of a new book but I couldn’t find the exact type of story I wanted to read, so I decided to try writing it myself. When did you first discover your love for writing and stories? When I’m not writing, I can probably be found experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen or tending to my garden. I’m originally from Miami, Florida, but I now live in London, England with my two dogs, Neville and Circe. Hi! I’m happy to! My name is Laura Sebastian and I write fantasy books for kids, teens, and adults. ![]() ![]() Hi, Laura! Can you tell our readers a bit about yourself? Read on to learn more about the sequel, writing, book recommendations, and more! Laura Sebastian’s Stardust in Their Veins is the sequel to Castles in Their Bones, which is the story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the helpful doctor/boyfriend comes and does his best for Jane. And what she wants is Jane.Įmily establishes a sort of psychic connection with Jane, and manages to control her to the point that Jane heads outside in a violent storm, gets soaked through, and becomes deathly ill. Turns out Emily was a wretched, willful, evil child back in the day, one of those kids who is used to getting what she wants. Meanwhile, Jane wanders about the house and sees Emily's room and Emily's things, and in the garden, she gazes into a reflecting ball and "meets" Emily herself. The young woman falls in love with a young man in the neighborhood (who happens to be a doctor). What I remember about this book is that it featured a young girl named Jane, who is, I believe, an orphan under the guardianship of a fairly young woman, and they head off to a big old house to spend a few months with somebody's grandmother or great-aunt. Isn't that a cheerful, pink cover? You'd be surprised at the the menace hiding behind that happy cover. And since this cover was issued in 1974 (according to my internet research), that means I was 10 when I read it. ![]() That's it wearing the cover I remember from when I was a child. Kellyrfineman Continuing my series on books I read (and, more to the point, re-read) as a child, I have to add the Gothic novel that is Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp, about which I've posted before. ![]() ![]() ![]() INTEVIEW: FREDERIK POHL, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer PREFERRED RISK, by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey ![]() THE SCIENCE FICTION ALPHABET, by Allen Glasser ![]() WAITING FOR THE COIN TO DROP, by Dean Wesley Smith WHEN THEY COME FROM SPACE, by Mark Clifton THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 8, by Grendel BriartonĮIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, by Ray Faraday Nelson CloughįOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del ReyĬAPTAINS CONSPIRING AT THEIR MUTINIES, by Jay Lake THE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn RuschĪIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer "The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack" contains 27 more works spanning time and space-including 24 stories, 2 interviews, and "A Science Fiction Alphabet." Fun stuff indeed! Included are: ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Always make superiors look smarter than you. Want to discover where Kanye gets his power? Let’s study the actual laws of the world! The 48 Laws of Power Summary ![]()
![]() Shrewdly operating the levers of power to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascended to the rank of pharaoh. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. Hatshepsut-the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne-was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. ![]() An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it’s too late. The further she goes, the more she risks the lives of not only herself, but those she loves. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go.īut magic doesn’t come for free, and soon dark forces are closing in on Katrell. However, when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. What do ghosts know about eating peanut butter for dinner? Things get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summonings or she’ll “burn everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff, though. Clients pay her to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Katrell doesn’t mind talking to the dead she just wishes it made more money. Some animal death is real and some is imagined.įor fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. Synopsis: Content warning: minor body horror, threat of harm to animals and animal death. ![]() Title: Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis ![]() ![]() ![]() The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband-and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations-a search for the truth that threatens to consume him. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.Īlicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. ![]() A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. ![]() ![]() Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Land: Founding, by contrast, kept me engaged from the beginning to the end. I don't even enjoy that when I'm playing a video game, much less when I'm reading about one. Usually, I don't find the characters interesting and I get irritated by the amount of time they spend grinding and doing boring intro quests. I've read dozens of this sort of thing before, because it always seems like it would be right up my alley, but it never has been. ![]() He has to manage and explore his newfound RPG powers and abilities, including a village-building system that I found to be the most interesting part of the novel. ![]() It's a LitRPG novel, which basically means it's about a guy getting transported inside of a world that works like a video game. You could pick it up for a dollar right now. (Which just so happens to be available on Kindle for only $0.99 even as we speak. And after hearing enough suggestions about him online, I finally read Aleron Kong's first book, The Land: Founding. I'm trying to get better at this, so I've been looking for some titles to promote. I've given people a shout-out here and there, but normally I don't even do that much. And I haven't done it, largely because I don't even promote my own work very much, much less anybody else's. ![]() For years now, I've been encouraged to be more active in promoting other independently published authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a great honor to be chosen for Landjahr Lager. They had an exact understanding of their responsibility and duties to their state and in their work place. Their challenging assignments included thought provocative discussions, problem-solving activities, and team-building experiences, which ended in their daily prayer.īy the time these girls graduated at the age of 14, they could move into their chosen vocation from agriculture, hospitality, retail, office work, or full home management and child care. Through a myriad of enriching experiences, these girls developed their interpersonal mental, physical, and spiritual skills. Their education went beyond the traditional home economics and child rearing as we have all come to believe. This elite rural educational program provided the fundamental building blocks which would stay with them the rest of their lives. Landjahr Lager (Country Service Year Camp) taught the girls courage, confidence, and built their moral character in a friendly and fun atmosphere through the power of camaraderie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suits does ask for himself to be considered an evil genius. 95–7) I submit that Bernard Suits has gotten himself, or his insect, into a similar position in his utopia, The Grasshopper. Bernard Suits The Grasshopper - Third Edition: Games, Life and Utopia Paperback Apby Bernard Suits (Author), Frank Newfeld (Illustrator), Thomas Hurka (Introduction) 34 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 42.26 1 New from 42. Instead, in creating, she was giving herself the delusion that she had created a two-dimensional paper world and was fooling all those creatures. Despite her best efforts, she had created a less flimsy world of three-dimensional objects and creatures. Could the Evil Genius deceive us about everything? Could she deceive us into believing that the entire world was as we believe it to be, while in reality it was made out of paper? Following his roshi (master) Wittgenstein, Oets argued that it turns out that the Evil Genius herself was being deceived. Once upon a time Oets, a fellow from Nebraska, wrote about Descartes’ problem of universal skepticism in Meditation 1. I end by showing how the Utopia of the Grasshopper self-destructs into postmodern babble-which is perhaps what Suits intended all along. takes to describe the forms of play that we actually have. Also I examine Suits’ definition of play, which he. ![]() Just as it makes no sense to maintain that everything is an illusion, since we would have no sense then of the correlative ‘reality’, so too it makes no sense to speak of a world consisting entire of playing. Here I consider the utopian claim of Bernard Suits, that the ideal life consists in playing games. ![]() |