A Short Story: The Fountain
33rd Gerdagon 1136, Ranghai The evening sky was crisscrossed by wispy clouds, and their pink flames mixed with the rippling clear blue lapping at the fountain’s edges. I watched as grey dulls and blue lazuli that had been tossed into the water danced at the bottom of the basin and wondered how many of those…
Book Review: Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell
Spoiler-free book review Genre: Fantasy, romance, contemporary YA The first of the Simon Snow trilogy, the fantastical world of Carry On has a peculiar origin story. Rainbow Rowell’s previous book, Fangirl, explored the fanfiction the main character wrote of a fictional Harry Potter-esque franchise. The popularity of that fictional world’s fanfiction garnered so much interest…
Why the pen name?
Okay, in the seven years that I worked on this project, never did I seriously consider any other author name than my own. So, why then, in the last phases of the writing, was I going around asking people to help me find a good pen name? It started when my father asked what I…
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