This year arrived for me with a heap of emotions and challenges. After being fired from my bookstore position (yeah, can you believe that? Me. Fired.), I hobbled along to find another job. At the start of the year, we also found this obnoxiously cute and innocent-looking puppy we named Nadja (after Natasha Demetriou’s vampiress…
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Let’s Flip Book Cliches!
I can be cynical when it comes to popular things. I was the girl when everyone started to like something, I pointedly DIDN’T like it. Harry Potter? I resisted until the movie came out (then fell in love). Lord of The Rings films? Held out until my late 20s. Leggings? Definitely should’ve tried them 10…
Nova’s Favorite 5 in Fiction
In my daily writing sprint with Paperbacks & Co., our group discussed the following question: What is your favorite novel? It was a short answer session because writers like us don’t have one favorite novel. We’d be lucky to narrow it down to ten. But I thought I’d try anyway to sit down and share…
Waiting for Normal
Everything we want in this world seems to come with a time stamp. I can sit and write today for 30 minutes. I can meet for lunch for 45. The drive to and from work takes 15. I’ll publish this article in the next day or two. I’ll publish my book in the next 2–5…
How I Choose Books While Traveling
And books that choose me One of the many things I love about books is the way they can connect you to a specific time and place. Not only the fictional location and space, but certain books can tether you to the experience you had when buying or first reading that book. My most treasured…
Things Unexplored
I love this question: What is your favorite place in the whole world? I never have a good answer. I always wish I did. Would it be the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina, where I first found the mysteries of the ocean? I was certainly at peace being jostled and cradled by the shoulder-deep waves,…
