This latest book in the Elemental Masters series is based on Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Wild Swans”. Elena and her seven brothers have been overlooked by their father since their mother disappeared when they were very young. Only the second son, Ben, knows the truth, that their mother was a swan maiden, and their […]
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I love that this book began as a quick little something to put on the blog and morphed into a fully publishable book. Ada’s an assessor who goes into alien portals to see what’s available for mining before they’re closed. She’s doing it because she’s a single mom who needs dental insurance, and her first
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This book brings the conflict between the Humans First and Last movement and the Others to a head. And it’s not pretty. The Elders of the Others have finally taken notice, and having the Elemental forces of the earth decide they’ve seen enough is very bad. I really love these books more than I feel
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Penric and Desdemona are called to a small town where a demon has been possessed by two hedge sorceresses in a row – a rare occurrence, since these kind of wild pairings can often go wrong. And this one has gone wrong. The demon doesn’t know how to vent its chaos, and has caused the
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Pattern: Sonsie Hat by Kate Davies Designs Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK Needles: Size 5 circs and size 6 circs and DPNs I first knit this hat when the pattern came out last year, but in the meantime, KDD did a version in some hand dyed
We are in peak violet and wild strawberry cover season in the back yard – it makes me happy every time I look out the back windows. The rest of my dahlias came in on Thursday, so I had them all planted by Friday. And one of the early batch has sprouted! I am glad
Fern, who we first met in Bookshops & Bonedust, has uprooted her life to open a new bookshop next to the Legends and Lattes coffee shop run by her friend Viv. She’s long been unhappy at home, and thought for sure this would solve those feelings. But it doesn’t. While fortifying herself with some liquid
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I’m starting my dahlias inside this year. It’s just been so cold I don’t trust having them in the greenhouse yet. I’ll just have to be very careful getting them out of these pots this time, so I don’t repeat my mistakes from the last time I did this. These are six of the seven
This is a lovely little fairy tale. Celia’s father helped their country win the war against the neighboring Summerlings (they’re Fae), and gained great power doing so. Celia is the youngest, and the only girl. And when her beloved oldest brother renounces their father’s name, she curses him, not realizing that she has inherited the
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Pattern: Hibernal Solstice Hat by Katie Herrod Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool (hand dyed) and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK (undyed) Needles: Size 5 and 6 Circs and 6 DPNs This was a quick, fun knit. I really enjoyed working with both these yarns, and I still have enough left to make
