![]() Welcome to 7 Questions from the Serrulata Saga Desk, my blog feature that boosts fellow indie authors! This week, we chat with Dani Finn. Pen Name: Dani Finn Pronouns: They/Them Book Series/Latest Book Published: The Time Before: Wings so Soft Introduce your current favorite character – who are they and why do you prefer them above all others at the moment? My current favorite character is Skiti from The Delve and the upcoming Jagged Shard. She’s a dwarven artificer, BFF and sometimes lover to Queen Laanda. She’s quiet, intelligent, and introspective, the inventor of the omni, a multipurpose device whose uses are limited mostly by the wielder’s imagination. She’s fiercely loyal to Laanda but isn’t afraid to challenge her—or bind her to the bed and reduce her to a quivering mess—as her Queen’s needs dictate. Who is harder to write – an interesting hero or an interesting villain? Villains are easy. Heroes are hard, because if they’re too goody-goody, they lose their shine, but if they’re too self-absorbed, you won’t follow them to the ends of the earth. The best heroes I’ve written—Laanda from the Time Before series, Sinnie from the Maer Cycle, Cloti from the upcoming Cloti’s Song, and a few others, all have their own agendas and make decisions not everyone would agree with. They may not be perfect, but they care about things and by gum, they Get. Shit. Done. You’re trapped in an elevator with your main character. What are you discussing? Skiti and I would be discussing how to get out. Or rather, Skiti would be explaining how she’s going to get us out, and grousing about the pathetic technical skills of those who designed and maintained the elevator. The crews in the Deepfold kept their lifts in perfect working order, and that’s with fantasy-level tech, no electricity. Modern non-fantasy people are a buncha technical lightweights. What is the most challenging aspect of writing for you? How do you conquer it? Time is always the enemy. If I had infinite time, there’s no limit to how many books I could publish. I “conquer” it by having a daily writing routine: I work for about half an hour every day at the same time, and several times on days when my day job doesn’t keep me busy. It doesn’t seem like much, but since I’m extremely fixated on my routine, I write and edit enough to put out 2-3 books a year on the regular. It took me a while to form this habit, and it doesn’t work for everyone, but an almost-religious daily writing routine has been absolute gold for me. If you could write a cross-over with another book/series, what would it be and why? (Or, if cross-overs don’t interest you, why?) I have no interest in crossovers, except with my own series, which I do quite a bit. There’s too much obsession in media these days with big IPs and crossovers, and I think it’s time we focus on idiosyncratic, quirky shit like our own twisted little worlds. Mine are all interconnected in little ways, with the hope that readers of one will become curious and explore the others. I always want to be creating more stories in these worlds, or creating new worlds beyond them. Worldbuilding is so intricate and complex that there’s no way that would make any kind of sense to me to mix my worlds with someone else’s. In your opinion, what is the purpose of storytelling? Storytelling serves different purposes for different people, but for me, it’s about giving us a chance to experience a life we could never have, or a version of our lives we’ve never gotten a chance to explore. Sometimes what we read in a story gives us the courage to do more, to be more in our own lives; other times, it helps us understand why others are different than us. And of course sometimes a story just helps us feel things we may not have realized we needed to feel. As a nonbinary person, stories and storytelling have helped me understand who I am and who I might be in a way I never could have through any other medium. Ok, last but not least… Tell us a bit about what made you want to become a writer and why you write what you write. Okay so this is going to be a bit longer because I’m entering my third phase as an author, so bear with me. I’ve always been story-obsessed, always read, always written, always role-played (yes, dungeons and dragons and games like that are a form of storytelling). I studied literature in grad school, doing masters degrees in English and French, with a special interest in medieval lit. There was a time when I wrote crime fiction in the style of The Wire, even queried it for a while, but I felt fantasy calling back to me. I was in a D&D campaign, and it was fun enough, but everyone just wanted to kill everything. Hack, slash, move on. I got bored. So I wrote Hollow Road, about a group of adventurers who kill the monsters only to discover things are more complicated than they thought. Things started getting weird for me after that. I was writing fantasy, right? But in The Archive¸ things started getting kind of romantic. And sexy. And queer. While The Place Below didn’t continue the sexy/romantic trend, it picked up again in the Weirdwater Confluence. By the time I finished writing The Isle of a Thousand Worlds, I realized that I was no longer just a fantasy writer. I was on my way to becoming a fantasy romance writer. That’s when things started to get really interesting. Every book since then has been medium to high heat, all romantic, and most of them feature explicitly queer pairings as well. All of my next three books have significant sapphic components: Cloti’s Song is about a married throuple taking on a fourth; Jagged Shard is a lesbian dungeon crawler romance; and The World Within is a trans sapphic fantasy romance. There’s been a lot going on in my head and in my heart, and it’s all coming out on the page. I’ve been through the emotional wringer with these books, and I’m proud to be finally sharing that turmoil with the world in 2024. Thank you so much for having me, and I wish you the very best in 2024! Dani Here's where to find Dani: Website: My linktree has all my links in one place, including where to find my books! Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaniFinnwrites (I still hang out on the hellsite way too much) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danfitzwrites/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danfitzwrites Are you an indie author who wants to be featured on 7 Questions? Send me an email!
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Snow! It’s the last full week of January and (looks around nervously) I’ve been doing a fantastic job of keeping up with my goals so far! Sure, I know the year has barely started, but I’m gonna toot my own horn anyway.
Between exercise, mindfulness, and being nicer to myself overall, I feel as though I am on the right path at the moment. Here’s hoping I can keep this up! My latest WIP is now with my second editor/proofreader. I’ve also started gathering all of my notes (and there are so, so many) regarding the short story collection I’m planning. And, yes, I am starting to think about the outline for Book Three, as well. I know how I want it to begin and where I want everyone to wind up at the end, but right now the middle part—you know, the core of the story?—is giving me trouble. I promised myself I wouldn’t rush anything with this book, so I might actually wait until the weather gets warmer to really get going. For now, I’m bidding January goodbye—and looking forward to great things ahead! Bennett’s Indie Book Reviews – January Wrap-Up …with links to my Goodreads reviews: Traveler (The Traveler Trilogy) – Melanie Bateman A Swift Kick to the Thorax – Mara Lynn Johnstone Versus (FSF Writers Alliance Anthologies) – The Fantasy & Sci-Fi Writers Alliance Are you signed up for my newsletter? Make sure you whitelist me! Welcome to 7 Questions from the Serrulata Saga Desk, my new feature that boosts fellow indie authors! This week, we chat with Gabriel Hargrave, one of my fantastic editors - and an all around awesome person.
Pen Name: Gabriel Hargrave (will also eventually be releasing less spicy novels under Gabriel Crawford) Pronouns: he/him Book Series/Latest Book Published: Orchid and the Lion (OatL) series/The Lion and the Dahlia Introduce your current favorite character – who are they and why do you prefer them above all others at the moment? If we’re talking about my characters, I’m going to say a) what a cruel question to ask because they’re all my favorite and b) the current reigning champion is Sebastian, a.k.a. Bazzy. I’m in the process of drafting the first book I’m ever going to query, and Bas is the delightful main character. He’s got bubblegum pink hair and wears these wacky suits, and he’s just genuinely funny and a lot healthier and less of a mess than some of the other characters I’ve created. He stumbles into being the nanny for three kids, and watching him settle more and more into a parental role while falling for their father was a lot of fun, especially since the book has such a cute, cozy vibe. If we’re talking about other author’s characters, I’m going to shout out Juniper Lake Fitzgerald. I’m a huge fan of messy disaster queers, and Calysto and Python from The Modern Mythos Anomaly are two of my faves. Who is harder to write – an interesting hero or an interesting villain? Oddly enough, an interesting love interest. Which is bad news for me since I write romance and sci-fi with a romance co-plot. LOL! My first draft love interests tend to be wooden and boring and just kind of blah. I tend to use them as a way of first figuring out and fleshing out my main character and then I go back and rework that first draft so that the love interest can really shine. My critique partner and I like to joke that my love interests suffer from “Laith syndrome” because that particular character was nothing like he wound up being in the final version of The Orchid and the Lion. He was just sort of…there? There were pieces of him in place, things that I could latch onto when I went back and fixed him up, but for the most part, he was just responding to Dorian and helping me get to know that character. Sabri in The Lion and the Dahlia was a similar story. She’s one of the most dynamic and beloved characters I’ve ever created now, but in the first draft, she was flat and didn’t stand on her own outside of Laith being attracted to her. I think the biggest issue is that I pants my stories, so the love interest is a tool in the first draft rather than a full-on character in their own right. It helps make the main character and the story interesting, but it means having to put in extra work on subsequent drafts so that the reader will love the LI as much as the main character and I do. You’re trapped in an elevator with your main character. What are you discussing? I’ll go with Dorian for this one because in addition to writing the third draft of Nanny Bazzy, I’m also working on the first draft of The Dahlia and the Knight, the third book of the OatL series, so I’m in that character’s head a lot now. Dorian and I are both bookworms, so I think that would be the majority of what we talk about. The OatL series takes place about 150 years in the future, so Dor would have read dozens and dozens of books that aren’t even written yet and could tell me about them. But depending on how long we’re trapped, I assume we’d eventually get into things like our shared traumas, our weakness for a dry red wine, and our experiences as kinky queer people. I’ll probably also get yelled at a lot for what I put Dorian through. LOL! What is the most challenging aspect of writing for you? How do you conquer it? Wildly enough, storytelling is hard for me. My characters are fun and dynamic and realistic enough that you feel like you could reach out and slap them when they do something ridiculous. But it’s hard for me to figure out what the plot of a particular book should be. It takes so many drafts—both finished and unfinished—and a lot of discussions with my critique partner, alphas, and betas to nail down the tale I’m trying to tell. Some of that is that I’m a fan of really complex narratives, BIG stories that are often too big and need to be shrunk down a bit. Some of that is that I pants, so I initially have no more than a vague idea of what I’m doing until I’ve finished the first draft and can start weeding out the stuff that doesn’t work and zeroing in on what does. And some of that is that most of my work is genre-blending, so I’m juggling a lot of things all at once. I’d love to be able to publish more than one novel a year, but my writing process is big and chaotic and messy and takes time. And the majority of that is because characters and dialogue and sex scenes are all easy, but plot is hard. I’m working on that, though, getting better at plot structure and attempting to plan things out a bit more as I write. One of my own personal “rules” as a writer is that I want the next book to be better than the last, and I never want to stop learning and improving my craft. If you could write a cross-over with another book/series, what would it be and why? (Or, if cross-overs don’t interest you, why?) I think it’s cheating if I say my critique partner Lor’s stuff since it’s not out yet, so I’ll go with K.D. Edward’s Tarot Sequence series. I had already written the first draft of The Orchid and the Lion when I read the first book of that series, and I was delighted to find characters that felt like they’d get along with my own. Ciaran and Dorian would be fun to watch interact because I think they’d be best frenemies, Sabri and Brand would get along like a house on fire (especially since they both deeply care about reckless grown ass men), and Laith and Rune would have a great time getting into messes together. Plus, Dorian being able to use magic would be the most fun and the most terrifying thing in the world. In your opinion, what is the purpose of storytelling? I think it’s different for every writer. Some people do it because they want to tell stories that will live forever, etch their name into the fabric of history, and be remembered for doing something great. Others do it because they have to, because they have words in their head or their heart that need to get out, and they’re going to make it everyone else’s problem. LOL! Some just like telling a good tale; others are working through stuff and using story to do it. I do it for a combination of reasons. I really enjoy sharing my work with people, getting to make them feel something, seeing how much they love my characters and the worlds I build around them. It’s also just really cathartic. I tend to give my characters struggles of my own, though I don’t realize I’m doing it until after I already have. My characters and I sort of therapize each other in the early drafts of a book, and we come to an understanding of, like, this is the story we want to tell, the one that expresses the things we need to get out into the world. As a queer author, though, there’s another equally important point to storytelling. Like other marginalized groups, LGBTQ+ authors are told that our stories aren’t important or that they need to be sanitized or silenced or a million other terrible things. Writing the kinds of books that I do—whether the raunchiest, most explicit erotica or the coziest, low-to-medium heat romance—is a declaration that I’m here, I’m queer, and I’m not going to shrink myself or let the attempts at “purifying” our culture go unnoticed or unchallenged. The queer writers that I know are putting their hearts and souls into challenging, beautiful, horrifying, heart-warming stories and releasing them into the world so that these stories can be told, can be heard, can be bulwarks against the tide of bigotry and nonsense being lobbed at queer people. And so that people like us—people who need those stories—can find them and take comfort in them and strength from them. Ok, last but not least… Tell us a bit about what made you want to become a writer and why you write what you write. I’ve been writing since I was a really little kid. I remember “writing” a book in kindergarten (I stapled construction paper together and scribbled on it and drew some bad pictures of dinosaurs in it), and I just sort of never stopped. It was something I felt called to do, and I’m so lucky that I’m at a place in life where I can do it. I talked in the last question about why I do what I do on a broader level, but the reason I write the kinds of books I write is because I want to read them. I love coming up with characters, figuring out who they are and what they want and what they become. And even though I told myself I wasn’t going to write erotic fiction, I found that it’s where I feel most at home. Not all of what I have brewing to publish is like the OatL series (the Nanny Bazzy novel is the first in what I’m hoping will be a series of low-to-medium heat contemporary queer romances set in Rochester, NY), but I adore books where sex and sexuality are treated as just normal parts of life, where the characters do things (fall in love, save the world, etc.) but they also do each other. I’m a huge proponent of the idea that you can weave together rich narratives, three-dimensional characters, and burn-your-face-off spicy scenes without sacrificing the quality or importance of your work, and I aim to be among those who prove that to readers. Here's where to find Gabe: Website: gabrielhargrave.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gabrielhargravewrites Twitter: GHargraveWrites Instagram: gabrielhargravewrites TikTok: gabrielhargravewrites Spotify: Gabriel Hargrave BlueSky: ghargravewrites.bsky.social Are you an indie author who wants to be featured on 7 Questions? Send me an email! It’s that time of the year – out with the old and in with the new. Or something!
I’m not sad to say farewell to 2023 but the year wasn’t all bad. I managed to publish three books, which I think is pretty rad. I also made more indie author friends and grew closer with some I already had. I also learned some very valuable lessons about myself and feel more confident as a writer heading into the new year. So here they are…my 2024 goals:
What I am not going to do is overwhelm myself. These are goals, not requirements – and I might need help remembering that from time to time! Indie Ink Awards – I’ve been nominated! Voting is now open for the Indie Ink Awards! I cannot believe I was nominate and am super stoked about it. Please consider voting for Gathering of the Four in the following categories:
But wait, there’s more… I am going to start a new feature next year – Seven Questions from the Serrulata Saga Desk. My goal is to get answers from a different indie author every month and feature them here on the blog and in my newsletter. Send an email via my comments page if you want more details! Also, yes – there is going to be another Serrulata Saga novel coming out in 2024, so if you’re not signed up for my newsletter, you’ll want to do so now so you can get the latest news before anyone else. And last, but not least… Bennett’s Books – December Wrap-Up A list of books I read this past month with links to my Goodreads reviews: Paper Love (Matchmaking Cats) – Jae His Lordship's Coachman – Maxime Jaz The Dapper Detective (Nott Haven Book 2) – Dez Schwartz Marrying Bluebeard – E.P. Stavs (ARC copy) Match with The Demon (Loved by The Demon, #3) – Chace Verity Are you signed up for my newsletter? Make sure you whitelist me! Happy New Year, all! See you in 2024! During the last few months, I had the amazing opportunity to work with author and artist @mawcehanlin If you follow me on my socials, you’ve probably seen at least one of these amazing pieces. They’re also on my Art page, but I wanted to collect them here with a bit more detail. Thanks again to an amazing artist who was a joy to work with! Leora of Mae as “The Magician” The Magician card is part of the Major Arcana and is often read as a card of creation and manifestation. Leora is a very powerful Xanthos who learns to overcome self-doubt to control her Xanthcraft. Growing up as the only one of her kind in the out-of-the-way village of Mae, she is an outcast despised by her adoptive family. When she learns of their plot to see her into the servantry, she runs away from home to face the unknown alone. As The Serrulata Saga progresses, we see that she is far from the meek young woman many mistake her for. As she learns to control her powers, she gains strength and self-confidence - the embodiment of The Magician. Roland Shallowbrook as "The Fool" The Fool is the first card in the Major Arcana and symbolizes new beginnings or journeys; The Fool is a playful spirit in search of experience. When we first meet Roland, he is hiding out at a roadside stop after completing a dangerous heist with no real idea of where to travel next. With twenty-five years behind him, he is adrift - stealing what he can to survive with no real place to call home. One fateful morning, he stumbles into a tavern, where he meets Leora, and the rest is history... Lady Aurora Verte as "Strength" Strength is the Tarot card in the Major Arcana that symbolizes, among other things, perseverance, courage, and compassion. Strength's message is that the ability to withstand any storm exists. When Lady Aurora is introduced, she is preparing for marriage to the boring but malleable Lord Paris Townsend. White Riders crash the celebration to arrest her father, but he is executed instead. Prompted by her twin sister, Aurora quickly flees her family home and the only life she's ever known. A proper lady forced to face incredible danger, she must beg for help when she first meets Leora and Roland, but soon falls head-over-heels for the latter and eventually proves her worth on the battlefield. Leopold, former First Commander of the White Riders and the Realm’s First Defender as "Judgement"
Judgement is the card in the Major Arcana that often involves a powerful, spiritual transformation from which there is no turning back. Leopold, the former White Rider is cold, calculating, and unfeeling when we first meet him. Though he ignores orders and betrays his fellow soldiers, he concocts a dastardly plot to get back into their good graces -- only to have a change of heart. By the end of the second book, we see his courage through his emotional strength to set off on a path of his own choosing and leave his past behind. Look at that view! Somehow, November is almost over. How did that happen? 2023 has simultaneously breezed by and seemed longer than previous years.
Earlier this month, Husband and I took a trip out to the Southwest to visit Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Neither of us had ever been to that part of the country before and the price was right when we bought the plane tickets. Y’all, I am in love. The landscapes are gorgeous. The weather was a tad cold, but – well, it is autumn. People were also shockingly polite and nice. New Mexico is a beautiful place and I can honestly say I can’t wait to go back. Post-Turkey Day Writing Session Recent travel, plus my surgery last month, plus a busier than usual day job has meant that I haven’t had much time for writing lately. I am planning to rectify that this weekend, when I hope to start editing the WIP I’ve been talking about – but not doing much work on – all this season. As you might recall, this one started out as a horror story but has since evolved into more of a thriller. (I’m a fan of blending genres if you haven’t already noticed.) It’s part of The Serrulata Saga, but could be read as a standalone. My goal is to have it ready to send off for editing by the end of this year. Fingers crossed I can actually make this happen. It’s Gonna Be a Hot December If you get my newsletter and/or follow me on social media, you know that my third romance, Because You Asked, is coming out December 20. In honor of this, I’ve decided to read and review steamy indie romances all month. I’ll post my wrap-up here right before the new year, of course. Anything to keep warm during those cold winter nights, amirite? If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you have a fantastic holiday. (Gobble, gobble.) See you back here next month! Hey everyone!
I’ve spent the better part of two weeks recovering from minor surgery on my right hand. Since this is my dominant hand, typing has been hard…but fortunately reading has not! During my convalescence, I was able to put a bit of a dent in my TBR. Check out my reviews below – and have a safe and wonderful Halloween! Bennett’s Books – October Wrap-Up A list of books I read this past month with links to my Goodreads reviews: Roman (Vampire's Mate, #1) – Grae Bryan A Strange Belief: Weird Stories – N.S. Ford Splinter : A Diverse Sleepy Hollow Retelling – Jasper Hyde In Aeternum – Maxime Jaz Hunted (Blood Moon, Texas Shifters, #5) – Kat Kinney Dread Scarlet (Shadows of Chicago Book 3) – Rien Nadie and C.J. Twining TankerTanner – W. Payne Sillavan A Forest of Grimm Desires – E.P. Stavs Are you signed up for my newsletter? Make sure you whitelist me! Sat with some old friends recently. Hey there…
As y’all know, this past summer was very difficult, and then my day job threw several wrenches at me throughout September. I was extremely overwhelmed and am just now starting to feel steady again. Hence, this post, which will be a bit of a ramble. You’ve been warned! For most of this year I’ve been thinking about what I want to do with this space. Before my life got too hectic, I had Notions and Thoughts about writing Meaningful Things and posting them here. I attempted this once but wound up getting frustrated, realizing the exercise just wasn’t working for me. So I’m going to return to talking about where I am with my writing and my plans for the future. Doing so in the past helped keep me grounded and organized. Rereading My Own Books I don’t revisit many books. I have a few select comfort reads I break out during my summer travels or the holiday season, but mostly if I’m done with a book, I’m, well…done with it. As I’ve prepared to launch my third book this year (hello, burnout!) I realized that, as much as I was sort of dreading it, it would do me good to reread all of the books I’ve put out so far. I’ve said this before, but I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and launch Gathering of the Four again. The first version was an absolute mess of a disaster and I’m utterly shocked that anyone got all the way through it, let alone posted favorable reviews of it. (Those of you who did are truly kind.) Though I had gone back and edited it again, I did catch a few more typos and grammatical errors during this latest reread. I am still embarrassed, but the upside is I’ve grown as a writer since the spring of 2021. So, the copies of Gathering of the Four that are on sale now hopefully shine a bit brighter than the ones from the past. I don’t know if I’ll ever fully forgive myself for botching up my lifelong dream so badly at the beginning, but—it is what it is. Gathering of the Four is as good as it’s going to ever get. Rereads of Yours and Mine and Second Glance didn’t make me want to hide my head in shame, but I did manage to clean up a few oddly-worded sentences here and there. Plus, delving into the lives of my side characters is always amusing, so combing through those two books again was not nearly as taxing. In anticipation of starting Book Three next year, I’m also going to revisit Test of the Four this winter. I don’t think I’ll feel nearly as bad about myself after reading the second book in my series as I did after completing the first, so I’m not dreading this exercise as much. Ha! I know I’m never going to be a famous author. Hell, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to consider myself a successfulauthor, but I learn something new with every story I write and every book I publish. What do they say? “It’s not the destination, but the journey?” If you’re still here, thanks for being by my side! Speaking of Publishing More Books… I’m in the process of gathering alpha reader feedback for the yet-to-be-named next spinoff book in The Serrulata Saga. I had fun writing this one, but I did push myself too hard and so I’m anticipating a lot of comments along the lines of “Wait…what?” I will allow myself a small brag, however, and say that two of my regular alpha readers have already said they very much enjoyed this story, so hopefully I’ll be able to whip it up into shape for a release early next year. After I get that book out the door, I will commence outlining Book Three. I’m hoping I’ll be able to learn from my mistakes, actually modify my behavior, and not rush. Now that I have pretty much realized I am never going to make money or gain fame from this self-publishing game, I have to keep reminding myself that there is no pressure. The words will come when they come. The next book will be done when it’s done. No one is really chomping at the bit for it, other than the reader inside of me, so I can do what I should have done from the beginning and take my time. So, Book Three is coming. I just don’t know when. I’m not even going to hazard a guess; however… Spooky Season Inspo If you follow me on Insta, you know that Stephen King is one of my favorite horror authors. Every year around this time I revisit some of my favorite short stories by him, and I’m now in what I like to call “short story mode”. I’ve always enjoyed reading collections and I’m at the point where I want to put out my own. Thus, I’m planning to root around in (digital) folders from years past and dust off a few things I put down before I honed in on Gathering of the Four and self-publishing. I know there’s truly no going back again, so to speak, but it will do me some good to think back to where I was—and what I was writing—years ago. This has turned into quite a post, so I’ll leave things here for now. I will be back later this month with my October reads wrap-up. Until then, stay safe and well. This is going to be a short post.
We had a death in the family earlier this month. It was rather unexpected and has thrown me. My emotions have been all over the place, and I haven’t felt much like writing, let alone blogging. I do want to take the time to shout-out my August indie reads, however. I’ve always found solace in books and really appreciated the ability to get lost in other worlds during the past few weeks. See you back here in September. Stay safe and well, y’all. Bennett’s Books – August Wrap-Up A list of books I read this past month with links to my Goodreads reviews: The Murder Next Door (Louisa & Ada, #1) – Sarah Bell Far Removed (The Apidecca Duology Book 1) – C.B. Lansdell (ARC copy) His Lordship's Blood (His Lordship’s Mysteries # 4) – Samantha SoRelle Night Black: Book II of the Shadows of Chicago – C.J. Twining and Rien Nadie Are you signed up for my newsletter? Make sure you whitelist me! I know it’s only the beginning of August and I am not trying to wish summer away but I’m really excited about my first horror story so, yeah – I’ve put it out there.
I would absolutely love it if you grabbed an ARC and let me know what you think! You can also pre-order it, if that’s your jam. Here and There goes live October 1. (Note: Here and There is not part of The Serrulata Saga. There will be a Serrulata Saga horror novel coming in 2024!) I’ll be back with a longer blog post in two weeks. For now… Be seeing y’all! Bennett’s Books – July Wrap-Up A list of books I read this past month with links to my Goodreads reviews: Prince of the Sorrows (Rowan Blood, #1) – Kellen Graves Light My Pyre (Everwood Falls #1) – Kat Kinney Sea and Sky: MM Fantasy Romance – Morgan Lysand The Red Pen of Fate – Alley Rose Are you signed up for my newsletter? Make sure you whitelist me! |
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