I’ve spent a good chunk of my life working with design and making things more enjoyable to the consumer. Advertising is a race to make people pick up your product or service and having a strong design is one of the easiest ways to get people to stop and look. With books, it’s no different. … Continue reading 10 Tips for a Better Book Cover
I’m 1000% biased when I say that judging a book by its cover is sometimes a good thing. There’s a sea of books either online or at the store and at some point, you have to limit the choices just so you can even make said choice. I know a lot of people are going … Continue reading In Defense of Judging a Book by Its Cover
Okay, back a thousand years ago when I started making a list of ideas for posts I dubbed March Book Cover Appreciation Month. A small part of my bird brain believes that it was a legit month theme created outside of me, but I’ve yet to find it out in the wild. So, I’ll just … Continue reading Pseudo-Book Cover Appreciation Month
I had a completely different post planned for today and then I remembered yesterday was International Women's Day. I usually don't celebrate the day. For me, since I am a woman, every day is women's day. Every accomplishment I do is for women. Every failure I have is just a moment of learning for this … Continue reading Appreciating Women Authors
I was that teenager. You know the one. The one that thought they were so cool. The one that read adult books because they wanted to be grown up. I spent most of my teen years trying to be older. I think part of it was childhood trauma that made me grow up fast but … Continue reading In Defense of Adults Reading YA
Welcome to 2021! Where the world is still on fire, but we might be just a little bit more hopeful. One of the things that kept me hopeful through 2020 and now into 2021 are books! I'm pushing myself to read more and more every year. Even with things going crazy. There are so many … Continue reading Books I’m Looking Forward to in Early 2021
Today's post is a special one (and posted outside our normal schedule...the scandal). I have a special guest PM, a spoken word poet. We're doing a sort of collab guest post breaking down our thoughts of three poems from A Poem for Every Autumn Day, a collection by Allie Esiri. We'll be hoping through time … Continue reading A Poem for Every Autumn Day
The month of September is Library Card Sign Up Month which I think is fitting. September is when so many schools start. People get back to learning. People get back to reading. (I mean I read all summer long but some people don't.) I wasn't always the lover of the local library. When I read … Continue reading Ode to the Local Library
First of all, you might notice some changes to the blog. I'm rebranding awriterbee and hope to have that done in the next few weeks. I hope you like the changes. I read a few romances this month to celebrate National Romance Month, and this book was one of my favorites. Overall rating: 4/5Readability rating: … Continue reading Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Please enjoy another guest post from Melissa, the creator and host of Paperback Romance Book Club. Later this year the very talented Shanda Rhimes will be bringing her talents to Netflix with her adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton {book} series. While we don’t know much about the TV series yet except that you can already … Continue reading Peak Romance: Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Series
