Hold My Place by Cassondra Windwalker—what can I say—It’s a 5. Very gothicy, very not normal. I thought I knew where we were going and I was sort of right but not quite and that makes all the difference. I don’t give many books a 5 rating. For me, a book that registers 5 on the Sorchia Scale of Strange has to reach a certain level of creepiness. It has to be edited well because I’m distracted by improperly positioned […]
Best Practices for Novel Magic Guest Posts or How to make your Novel Magic Post Magically Delicious Every Monday, I feature a guest author who wants to promote a book. I call these little spots Novel Magic, and I ask the authors to write a short post to go with the promo. They write on topics related to their books—which are in genres I love—and I’ve been awed by the variety and skill of the writers who become my guests. […]
The Bookbinder’s Daughter by Jessica Thorne Prepare yourself for an engrossing fantasy! The Bookbinder’s Daughter is Sophie, a girl with a complicated past—a past she can’t remember. She’s at loose ends after her father’s death so when her uncle offers her a coveted position at a respected library, she can’t resist. She leaves the manipulative boyfriend—oh, the magic of that—and returns to The Special Collection. It’s a wondrous place that her fragmented memory longs for and fears. What Works: Musical […]
Happy New Year! It’s never too early to celebrate the end of 2021! All in all, it was a better year than 2020. That’s about the best I can say about it. The Universe is still spinning along in a magically gothic part of the time/space continuum, but it’s been rocky at times. When I was a kid, I used to moan about how unfair it was that I had to live in such boring times. Not so much now. […]
Secret Desires by J.L. Regen is about second chances–and what better way to end the year? Novel Magic hibernates in January, but we’ll be back in February 2022. We’ve got changes in the works, too. Take a peek HERE. (Hint: Sorchia Reviews Novel Magic books in 2022.) Until February, Thanks for hanging with me and for checking in from time to time. Taking a Second Chance at Love by J.L. Regen Many years ago I dated someone who I thought […]
Who doesn’t love a good revenge tale? A little sci/fi for the Holidays! About the Book by M. Garnet Far in the future there is a man who can do what all the intelligent scientists say is impossible. He is a shifter or what his people call the rare Modifier. He can turn into something larger and ugly and dangerous. Even more hazardous, when he shifts into this monster, he can’t be killed. Beware you don’t make this handsome […]
