Rachel Rener Rachel Rener is the author of THE LIGHTNING CONJURER Series, a critically-acclaimed contemporary fantasy with elements of magical realism and romance. Her most recent release, THE GIRL WHO TALKS TO ASHES, remains at the top of Amazon’s bestsellers list. She graduated from the University of Colorado after focusing on Psychology and Neuroscience. Since Read More
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#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: Derek Nelsen
Derek Nelsen Derek Nelsen was born in New Jersey and raised in North Carolina. A second generation Norwegian American, his grandparents emigrated to the US, settling in Norwegian neighborhoods in New York. Within a generation these wonderful people left NY to find a better life for their families in the country. New Jersey, the Garden Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: Caedis Knight
Caedis Knight Caedis Knight is the pen name of two established fantasy authors Jacqueline Silvester and N J Simmonds. Jacqueline and Natali met at London’s Young Adult Literary convention in 2017. Jacky had just launched the first book of her Wunderkids series, and Natali was there with The Path Keeper, the first book in her Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: G.V. Pearce
G.V. Pearce G.V. Pearce is a mysterious being said to haunt the North York Moors, but is otherwise as yet unclassified by science. Rumour has it that they can be summoned by leaving coffee in a faery circle at midnight. G.V.’s books with Improbable Press include their Sherlockian mystery Ghost Story and Strangest Day So 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
#Indieapril Author Spotlight: Heleen Kist
I’ve been following Heleen Kist for a few years now and she’s truly a kind person. She’s a Dutch author living in Glasglow (which I totally love) so we had a few things in common when we connected. I’m not a big fan of thrillers but recently had the chance to read her latest book Read More
Book Tour: Marrow Charm by Kristin Jacques
I read this book as part of the Book Bloggers’ Book of the Year Award 2020. It’s one of the finalists and ended up in the xth place. Massive congratulations to the author. Marrow Charm deserves to be a finalist and I actually expected it to be higher up in the rankings. Marrow Charm by Read More
Book Tour: Ever Alice by H. J. Ramsay
Today’s book tour is a special one. It’s the first on my BBNYA book tours! Ever Alice by H. J. Ramsay ended in the tenth place of the 2020 awards, but the committee shared that all of the finalists were incredibly close to together. I think all of the finalists are winners because the quality Read More
Book Blogger Novel of the Year 2021
Last year, just before the holidays, the winners of the first annual Book Blogger Novel of the Year Award were announced. Now, the signups for this year are opening up, and I wanted to talk a bit about my experience on last year’s panel. For Panelists I knew when I first heard about BBNYA, I Read More
Book Bloggers’ Novel Of The Year Award – Round One
I already talked about being on the panel for the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award at the beginning of the year. The authors all signed up and the lovely people who are helping out the organisation made a list of all the entries. There were two I read before, one I have on Read More