It’s been a few months since r/Fantay’s bingo started and some people have already finished the card. I’ve only finished ten squares but have a few books that can still fill up more squares. I’m really enjoying myself and hope to get a few more books off my TBR this way since the majority of Read More
Posts by Tessa Hastjarjanto
Review: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
I read The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk as part of the Kobo Plus program. It’s nice to see traditionally published books also being included in the program, and I really wanted to read this one. Fantasy romance stories with regency elements are my jam! (Have I mentioned Stephanie Burgis lately? She writes more Read More
BBNYA 2021 – Semi-finalists
Round two of BBNYA is currently underway. The panellists are reading nine or more 10k word excerpts from the books, and scoring them. We’ve still got some time but we’re cooking up some exciting things for the authors in the meantime. But the authors aren’t just playing the waiting game! EG Radcliff had organised a Read More
Camp Nano 2021- July Experiment
Every (camp) Nano, I will try some new things to try to optimise my writing process. This year, I wanted to try tracking my writing sprints instead of words. It’s much harder for me to get those 1667 words on the page (if 50k is the goal) than it is to schedule a few writing Read More
Review: Rosewater by Tade Thompson
I’ve waited way too long before reading this but when one of the bookclubs on r/fantasy selected Rosewater by Tade Thompson as the book of the month, I knew I had to take part. Mostly to get my hard mode bingo square for a book club read. If not, I would’ve read it for a Read More
Camp Nano 2021- July Edition
It’s that time of the year again: the second Camp NaNoWriMo. Writers around the world will try to finish their projects in the span of a month. Or not. We’ll give it our best though. This time we get to choose our own goals. No 50.000 word minimum for a win. For this Camp NaNoWriMo, Read More
Best Reads of 2021 (so far)
I’ve been doing these Best Reads for a while now, and I really enjoy writing them. So here’s another round of Best Reads of the Year, the midyear edition. Best Reads (so far) It’s going to be hard to pick a top five, let alone my top read. It’s only June, and I’ve read twenty-seven Read More
Review: Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
I added Black Water Sister by Zen Cho immediately to my TBR once she announced it on her Twitter. The blurb blew me away and gave me all the feels. While I might not be the daughter of immigrant parents from Malaysia, I am the daughter of a man who escaped the blazing Indonesian weather. Read More
Infernal Contracts Update
This is a hard post to write but it’s also really exciting. I’ll get the bad news out of the way quickly: Lucifer’s Favour and Beelzebub’s Bargain won’t be released until later this year. The good news is that the whole trilogy will have awesome new covers (yes, the first one too). I’m basically waiting Read More
BBNYA 2021: Round One
Another year, another Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award. The signups closed a few months ago and the panellists received the excerpts for the first round a few weeks ago. June 14th is our deadline to send in our feedback. Like the previous year, we were given a long (loooong) list of all the Read More
