Spotlight Saturday: Guest Post and Giveaway with Dorine White, author of The Emerald Ring

Hi, everyone!

Welcome to another edition of Spotlight Saturday at Darlene's Book Nook, where we feature authors and their books!

We will be joined today by Dorine White.


About Dorine:

 My name is Dorine White. I graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Humanities. I am a member of the SCBWI and the PNWA. I write middle grade and YA fantasy. My first book, The Emerald Ring, will be published in 2013 by Cedar Fort Books.



 

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Welcome to Darlene's Book Nook, Dorine!

Dorine has written a guest post, so I will now turn the floor over to her!

What Does It Take to Become a Published Author?
It Takes the 2 P's: Patience and Perseverance
by Dorine White

My quest to publication took a long time. The Emerald Ring is actually the third manuscript that I’d written. My first manuscript, The Awakening, was sent out to agents and editors for over two years before I set it aside. It was during this time that I took a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) class at a local college. During this class I finished my second manuscript, a YA fantasy of over 50,000 words. If you’ve ever participated in NaNoWriMo, you know it takes a lot out of you. I put that manuscript away, and didn’t look at it again for over a year.

That brings me to The Emerald Ring. I spent about 6 months writing the story and a few more editing. Then I took a lengthy break to take care of family things. I pulled it out again when I attended the Summer PNWA writer’s conference. I needed something to pitch, and this one was complete. It was at this conference that I learned about book doctors. I lucked out in finding a book doctor, Jason Black, who was just starting his business and able to take on new clients at a low cost. I jumped on the chance and first had him do a developmental edit. He read the manuscript and gave me ideas to make the story complete. After several more rounds of edits, I then submitted it to him for a line edit. It was at this point that I felt ready to send it out to publishers.

I was so excited, so sure an agent would swoop it up, but alas, no. After a year of submitting to agents and getting rejections, I moved on to publishers. This time I got great responses. Several editors sent back personal rejections and a few requested the manuscript. Did I mention it can take up to a year to hear back from a publisher? It got sent to the acquisitions committees of a couple houses, but then fell through. Ah- patience.

I set aside The Emerald Ring after 3 years of trying, and began working again on my second manuscript. I was just ready to start sending it out when my sister-in-law suggested I give The Emerald Ring one more try. I figured it couldn’t hurt, and sent it out for one more round. This time luck was with me. After three months, Cedar Fort requested my manuscript and then signed me a week later! My perseverance had paid off, but it took a lot of patience to get that far. Nothing happens quick in the publishing world.

Now that the release date for my book is here, I can look back and smile. Wow, what a road! The rejections can really get to you, but you have to keep trying, even if it takes years. Move on to other projects, and don’t get bogged down with just one story. Most authors I know took at least 8 years to break into publishing. Don’t give up!

Thanks so much for joining us today, Dorine!

 

One lucky winner will win a hardcover copy of Dorine's debut novel, The Emerald Ring!

TITLE: The Emerald Ring

SERIES: Cleopatra's Legacy, Book #1

AUTHOR: Dorine White

PUBLISHER: Cedar Fort, Inc.

PUBLICATION DATE: May 14, 2013

FORMAT: Paperback, 348 pages
GENRE: Upper Middle-Grade Fantasy

ISBN: 9781462111336

 

Ordinary tween life turns upside down when Ancient Egypt intrudes on modern middle school life. Twelve year old Sara Guadalupe Bogus reads about adventures, but unexpectedly is drawn into one when a mystical emerald ring that once belonged to Cleopatra becomes stuck on her finger.

A series of burglaries spook Sara’s small Ohio hometown. Concluding that the root of all the crimes is the emerald ring, Sara realizes it’s up to her and her friends, Heidi and African exchange student Kainu, to save the town and protect Cleopatra’s legacy. Filled with magic, the ring thrusts Sara into a world filled with nightmares, allows her to shape shift into an Egyptian cat and battle assassins.

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Blood Drama Virtual Blog Tour: Author Interview and Giveaway with Christopher Meeks

Hi, everyone!

I am pleased to participate in Christopher Meeks' Blood Drama Virtual Blog Tour hosted by Premier Virtual Author Book Tours.

About Christopher:

Christopher Meeks first published short fiction in a number of literary journals, and the stories are available in two collections, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons. Recently, he’s focused on novels. The Brightest Moon of the Century is a story of a man who yearns for love and success, covering over thirty years—a tale that Marc Schuster of Small Press Reviews describes as “a great and truly humane novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving.” His last novel, Love At Absolute Zero, is about a physicist who uses the tools of science to find his soul mate–and he has just three days. Critic Grady Harp calls the book “a gift.” The new novel, Blood Drama, has him edge into a thriller. Meeks also runs White Whisker Books and publishes four authors.

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Welcome to Darlene's Book Nook, Christopher! Please tell us a little about yourself.

I’m presently growing corn, watermelon, and artichokes. That’ll make a meal, right? For the artichokes, I love them boiled with a lemony hollandaise sauce, which I make fresh using whole eggs. Now that I’m a farmer, I like to say “y’all” a lot. I must be a Southern farmer.
 

Do you have a specific writing style?

I take what I write seriously, even if humor sneaks in. My style is to make each sentence clear. It takes a lot of work to make it seem easy.

This question brings up a thing that happened in my Introduction to Literature class yesterday at Santa Monica College, which relates to voice and style. I had the class read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” I like assigning this short story because it’s so different—about a dishevelled old man who’s rescued, and he has wings. (If you’ve never read it, click on the above link.) Rather than lecture about what magic realism is, I had them experience it.

I happen to find many parts of the story funny, such as the woman who counted her heartbeats until she ran out of numbers or the man who couldn’t sleep because of the noise of the stars. You have to admit, people can be weird.

When the students had a hard time talking about the story, I put them in small groups and let them answer questions about it. What was great was many of the students, now being asked questions, looked at the story in a new way and even asked their own questions. A few students on their own found parallels to Jesus, and one brought up the Joan Osborne song, “If God was One of Us.” They overcame their first assumptions and found a lot to admire in the short story. What I’m getting to is that I like stories that have multiple levels, and that’s what I aim for in my own stories.

Today on Library Thing, I happened to come across a new review of Blood Drama by someone named Stephario. She wrote, “I've been sitting here for the past several hours trying to summarize and review the characters and plot of Blood Drama, but I just couldn't do it. You can't summarize this story. It has way too many twists and turns and is way too unique to shorten without giving something away. You can't condense these characters into a short paragraph each. They're all, save one, too complex, too well-rounded, too evolving to be able to write just a few lines about each.”

This isn’t to say my story can’t be summarized. Rather, I like to see that Stephario appreciates the complexity and, like my students yesterday, came across something different and on her own came to understand much of it.

My style is not Marquez’s. Like Marquez, however, I write for a reason. I hope to disarm.

Is your ending clearly in your mind as you write, and do you build your story towards that? Or are you open to exploring where the story will take you as a writer?

My ending is definitely in mind, but the exact wording is not. John Irving typically writes out the last lines of his stories first, and in most cases has always kept the exact words. I only have a general ending in mind. I always hope for something lyrical to pop up, or at least powerful, and in most cases that’s what happens.

I write down in shorthand the scenes to the whole book in advance, but once I’m writing, I’m open to changes. Sometimes a character does or says something that surprises me.

If something changes or gets added in, I go back to the outline and see how the new thing affects the whole story. I readjust the outline before going much farther. It’s important to have structure. I can imagine scenes faster than I can write them.  

Do you discipline yourself to write a certain number of words daily, or does your writing ebb and flow?

I aim for a thousand words a day, but if I don’t always hit it, that’s okay because other days I write a lot more.  

What is your ideal writing environment? Do you prefer music or solitude? Is there a time of day (or night) that you prefer?
 
I tell my students to analyze themselves. When and where are they the most productive? Then create a routine. I like working in my home office in solitude right after waking up. I’m still in a dream state. I have the most energy then. My wife, in contrast, is a night person.

Blood Drama is your first novel in the thriller genre. What led to your writing taking this new direction?

I like to try something new with each novel and short story. I challenge myself. I know I’ll end up not being completely traditional. I’m not fighting the genre but just following what interesting characters do.

 

Can you tell us a little about your current and upcoming writing projects?

I’m into the fifth draft of a mystery, 10 Days to a Bad Habit. Each day is a chapter—ten chapters. It’s about a married man at a convention in Las Vegas who meets an interesting woman, brings her back to his place, and in the morning, she’s dead. However, he did nothing—he’s innocent—and while evading the police, he tries to figure out who killed this woman and why.

 

What do you like to do when you are not writing?

Our daughter is fourteen now and doesn’t like restaurants, so my wife and I have date nights. It’s great we don’t need babysitters now. Our five cats and two dogs would say I exist for their needs. I walk dogs and clean catboxes. I also garden, swim, teach, read, and tweet.


What book are you reading now?

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. A research doctor from Minnesota goes to the Amazon to find out about a colleague who died there. It’s very good.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Christopher! It was a lot of fun getting to know you better.

One lucky winner will win a copy (print or digital) of Christopher's thriller, Blood Drama. If the winner is outside of Canada/US, the winner will receive a digital copy.

TITLE: Blood Drama
AUTHOR: Christopher Meeks
PUBLISHER: White Whisker Books
DATE OF PUBLICATION: June 20, 2013
FORMAT: Paperback, 242 pages
GENRE: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Crime 
ISBN: 9780983632962

Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash has lost his girlfriend in addition to being dropped from a Ph.D. program in theatre at a Southern California university. When he stops at a local coffee shop in the lobby of a bank to apply for a job, the proverbial organic matter hits the fan. A gang of four robs the bank, and things get bloody. Ian is taken hostage by the robbers when the police show up. Now he has to save his life.

FBI Special Agent Aleece Medina's analysis of the bloody bank heist drives her into the pursuit of a robbery gang headed by two women. She doesn’t anticipate how this robbery will pit her against both the bandits and the male higher-ups in the FBI while the media heats up during a giant manhunt.

The robbers are about to kill Ian, and all he has at hand is his knowledge of the stage.

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Tour Participants

So Many Precious Books May 13 Review & Giveaway
Books, Books & More Books May 14 Review
Books, Books & More Books May 15 Interview
Alive on the Shelves May 16 Review
Ordinary Girls May 17 Review
DWED Blog May 20 Review
DWED Blog May 21 Interview
She Treads Softly May 22 Review
Reading With Tea May 23 Review
Darlene’s Book Nook May 24th  Interview &Giveaway
Green Mountain May 27 Review
Book Lover’s Library May 28 Review
Book Lover’s Library May 29 Interview & Giveaway
Raging Bibliomania May 30 Review
Hezzi D’s Books & Cooks June 3 Review
Celtic Lady June 4 Interview
OmniMyMystery June 6 I
Laurie’s Thoughts & Reviews June 10 Review
Laurie’s Thoughts & Reviews June 11 Interview
I’d Rather be Reading June 12 Review & Giveaway
Self Taught Cook June 14 Review
Wormhole June 17 Review
Wormhole June 18 Interview & Giveaway

In Darkness We Must Abide Book Blitz: Guest Post and Giveaway with Rhiannon Frater

Hi, everyone!

I am pleased to participate in the Book Blitz hosted by Xpresso Book Tours for Rhiannon Frater's In Darkness We Must Abide.


About Rhiannon:

Rhiannon Frater is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including the As the World Dies zombie trilogy (Tor) , as well as independent works such as The Last Bastion of the Living (declared the #1 Zombie Release of 2012 by Explorations Fantasy Blog and the #1 Zombie Novel of the Decade by B&N Book Blog),and other horror novels. Her next novel for Tor, Dead Spots, will be published in 2014. She was born and raised a Texan and presently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and furry children (a.k.a pets). She loves scary movies, sci-fi and horror shows, playing video games, cooking, dying her hair weird colors, and shopping for Betsey Johnson purses and shoes.

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Welcome back to Darlene's Book Nook, Rhiannon!

Rhiannon has written a guest post, so I will now turn the floor over to her.

In Darkness We Must Abide
The Origin of a Supernatural Serial
By Rhiannon Frater

At the end of last year, I stumbled across an old manuscript lurking in the badlands of my hard drive. I was shocked to unearth the story, having forgotten I had it converted to Word years ago from my old word processing format. For years I had considered it trunked and lost somewhere in the storage in the garage. Opening the file, I rediscovered a story I had sank most of my heart and soul into a very long time ago when I was just starting to write horror novels.

In Darkness We Must Abide was my first full-length original work. I spent hours at my old typewriter creating the first draft of the manuscript. Later, I bought a word processor and retyped the entire manuscript, saving it onto floppy discs. Yes, this was a long time ago!

As I read over my old work, I realized several things. One, I still absolutely loved the two primary leads, Armando and Vanora; and two, the story was solid, but needed some revision. I was very young when I wrote the story, inexperienced in life, love, and long lasting relationships, and this clearly showed. Also, I was under immense pressure from people in my life to write something “nice and normal,” so I struggled quite a bit with certain themes in the story. Reading over the manuscript, I saw exactly the changes I needed to implement to make it a stronger, vibrant read. I set it aside, considering reworking it into a trilogy at a later date.

At the beginning of this year, I began toying with the idea of doing a serial. As The World Dies was originally written as an online serial, and I’d missed the immediate feedback that came with the release of each new part. I had an idea for a whole new fresh work, but was intimidating by having to fit it into my already overloaded writing schedule. Then I saw an article about taking an old manuscript and converting it into a serial. Instantaneously, I knew that In Darkness We Must Abide was the perfect story to be converted into a serial. It was already divided into three distinct parts and it was huge! In fact, one of the reasons I couldn’t sell the book in its old form was that it was one massive book that far exceeded the word count limits of most publishers.

I instantly divided the first third of the story into the five episodes that make up season one. Extremely nervous, I started the revision process with the intention of each part reading like a television show in the reader’s mind. I was shocked at how easily the story fell into an episodic format, but was thrilled at the same time. Also, the voices of the characters readily reawakened in my mind, much to my relief.

In my youth, I had made several big mistakes. When a test reader had an adverse reaction to my lead character being an albino, I altered her appearance. I even changed her name to something I thought sounded fancier. When I started revising, the first thing I did was give Vanora her name back and restore her albinism. I had robbed my lead character of an important part of not only her physical appearance, but her life experience as an albino. I also embraced all the themes I had skirted around in the earlier drafts, out of fear of criticism.

Side note: Humorously, I spent a lot of time trying to avoid overt sexual themes out of fear of offending my mother. This is the same woman who would later call me up to tell me how much she loved the sex scenes in Pretty When She Dies because they were “hot.”

When I finally sent the first episode off to my beta readers, I was terrified. How would they react to a gothic horror novel I had conceived so long ago? When the rave reviews started flowing in, I was so relieved. My story had officially risen from the grave.

Since the release of the first episode of In Darkness We Must Abide, I’ve been having a great time discussing the story with readers. A serial feels much different from a trilogy or series because the installments come out much quicker and there is less waiting for the readers. As a writer, it’s a challenge to give the readers something they can enjoy in small increments, but also instills in them the desire to read the next episode. The immediate feedback is also a great way for me to gage what is working, and what’s not. Though the fan reaction will not affect the overall story arc, to some degree it does affect the presentation of it. Because of the mad love for Armando, I have expanded his role significantly in the first season.

I have enjoyed my serial experience so much. I’m already anticipating doing one next year! This time it will be a whole new writing project, but it was definitely worthwhile digging up In Darkness We Must Abide and sharing it with my readership.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Rhiannon!

I reviewed the first episode of this serial, Death Comes Home, earlier this month and absolutely loved it! You can read my 5-star review HERE.

One lucky winner will win a signed paperback copy of In Darkness We Must Abide: The Complete First Season, plus a bookmark!

TITLE: In Darkness We Must Abide: The Complete First Season

SERIES: In Darkness We Must Abide, Episodes 1-5
AUTHOR: Rhiannon Frater

PUBLISHER: CreateSpace

PUBLICATION DATE: May 24, 2013

FORMAT: Paperback, 300 pages

GENRE: Gothic Horror
ISBN: 978-1484861844

In Darkness We Must Abide is the epic saga of one young woman caught in the dangerous world of the creatures of the night.

Already living in the shadows due to her albinism, Vanora is just a little girl when her older brother inadvertently unleashes a terrible evil from the family crypt that changes their lives forever.

As she grows up in a world where beautiful deadly beings hunt by night, one captures her eye and her heart. Yet, can she trust the mysterious Armando? For there is a powerful entity plotting to claim her when she reaches adulthood in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy, and her enemy has enveloped her in a web of deceit, casting doubt on all she believes to be true. Soon, she will have to fight not only to save those she loves, but also for her very soul.

Rhiannon Frater delivers a chilling adventure once again with this multi-part epic serial with a dynamic cast, old school vampires, bloody action, a smoldering forbidden love, and a terrifying villain set against the backdrop of a modern day vampire war.

This paperback includes all five episodes of the first season of the serial.

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Jason S. Walters Virtual Tour: Guest Post and Giveaway

Hi, everyone!

I am pleased to participate in Jason S. Walters' Virtual Tour hosted by Tomorrow Comes Media.


About Jason:

Jason S. Walters is an author, essayist, and publisher best known for running Indie Press Revolution (IPR), a distributor of micro-published roleplaying games. He is also one of a small group of investors that purchased Hero Games in 2001, and serves as its general manager. After owning a San Francisco bike messenger service for 15 years, he and his wife Tina moved to Midian Ranch: a homestead near the town of Gerlach, Nevada. It is also the location of IPR’s warehousing complex. They have a daughter with Down syndrome named Cassidy and animals too numerous to mention.

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Welcome to Darlene's Book Nook, Jason!

Jason has written a guest post, so I will now turn the floor over to him!

In Defense of Microculturation
by Jason S. Walters

Like any science fiction novel worth the name, my book Nakba is about all sorts of discombobulated and interesting things: over-urbanization, totalitarianism, personal liberty, Down syndrome, diaspora, and social decadence, to name but a few. But at its heart Nakba is more than anything else a defense of microculturation, and an argument for its necessity as our society moves forward into an uncertain future.

What do I mean by microculturation? It's the process by which people naturally gravitate to those like themselves, spit off from the mainstream of their society, and form their own self-contained “microcultures,” often geographically removing themselves from their original society to do so. This is an extremely natural, organic, and creative social process which seems to be a normal part of the human experience, and there are many examples of it in history. The Protestant Reformation produced all sorts of microculturation throughout Europe, spawning all shapes and kinds of Protestant groups from the respectable and mundane (Lutherines, Anglicans) to bizarre and extreme (Hutterites, Quakers). Many of these groups eventually fled Europe for North America, where they exist in some form until this day. Similarly, the early flowering of Christianity produced numerous interesting and odd sects, such as the Nestorians, Manicheans, Ophites, and Sethian Gnostics. These groups were forcibly suppressed or killed as heretics by the Catholic Church, which then had to struggle mightily to prevent (or subvert) the natural process microculturation in Western Christianity for the next thousand years.

On a * significantly * less religious note, left to its own devices - and without the iron fist of the Soviet Union to prevent “deviationism” - Marxism quickly microculturates, especially under pressure situations such as the Russian and Spanish Civil Wars, or World War Two. Trotskyism, Hoxhaism, Bowderism, and Bakuninism are but a few examples. Also, the natural and organic spread of populations over a geographic area, such as the early aboriginal settlers of North America or the Bantu peoples settling sub-Saharan Africa, can also lead to microculturation, producing hundreds of distinct languages and cultures over time.

In fact, the only group that suffers under microculturation is the dominant culture, which looses manpower, influence, and - perhaps most importantly - control as more and different groups with opposing cultural assumptions splinter off from it. Even if microcultural groups are uninterested or disinclined by their beliefs to found rival governments or nation states, the large culture is invariably hostile to the creations of new “centers of power,” even if these centers are cultural rather than backed by force. Anything outside of its sphere of influence is, by definition, at the very least suspect, and more often viewed as treasonous, perverse, heretical, or some combination of the three.

This is why as the 21st Century moves forward, microculturation remains extremely controversial: because it represents a loss of control by a dominant, urban culture that is an increasingly worldwide phenomenon. In fact, microculturation may in the end be the one obstacle to forming a more-or-less unified world society, constantly challenging the concept that in the end we are all “one world” and “one people” (as the highly microculturated Rastafarians are fond of saying). Or at the very least that we all want generally the same things out of life, are willing to basically obey and cooperate with the similar power structures to get them, and are at least willing to pay lip service to the dominant international culture of this period.

Which is part of why I wrote Nakba, and why it's called the first book of the “Civilizing War.” Not only because there will be more books, but because I want people to get in the way of the sort of civilization that believes its mission is to be one of universally civilizing. The worldwide culture of the book, known as the Posthegemony, is a cartoonish exaggeration of our emerging worldwide society: rootless, shallow, urbane, controlled, self-congratulatory, unreflective, comfortable, self-indulgent, and above all terribly, terribly dull. It's opponents, both hidden on the Earth and scattered around the solar system in small communities, are known as Interesting People or Children of the Nakba (or “tragedy” in Arabic). To this point in the story they include renegade sex androids, people with Down syndrome, Berbers, Marxist-feminist clone sisters, and Martian Masai tribesmen – none of whom have much in common with one another, but none of which wish to be “civilized” by the Posthegemony.

In the next book you will meet many more – all odd and offbeat, all opposed to being civilized by the Posthegemony.

In the end, the one great barrier to oppression is to simply and publicly say “no,” refuse to obey, and accept the consequences, no matter how severe. This is what the characters in my book do, and this is what we must do ourselves if we wish to avoid their fate as the early, bright days of the 21st Century invariably grind down into its old age and darkness - as they did in the last Century. We must not sacrifice our particularism to universalism, we must not agree to live like bees in a hive, and we must be prepared to accept the inevitable consequences of our refusal.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Jason!

About the Books:

A thousand years ago humanity’s dissidents fled, leaving behind a peaceful, unified world content to exist in a state of perpetual hedonism. Then a daring escape plunged civilization into chaos, forcing its rulers to expand outward to maintain order. Now all that stands between a newly imperial Earth and the rest of the solar system is a loose coalition of Maasai tribesmen, cloned feminists, shape-shifting humannequins, and vengeful Berbers led by the least likely hero in human history: a young woman with Down syndrome and a bad attitude.

In the desert life is hard. It can also be surreal. In the absence of congestion and convention, imagination takes you by the hand: or the balls. In this macabre collection of riveting tales, ENnie Award-nominated author Jason S. Walters grabs the reins of storytelling as if it were a wild stallion, leading the reader ever deeper into the physical and spiritual wasteland of the Black Rock Desert.

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Tour Participants:


May 1 - Read 2 Review - Guest Post

May 2 - Makayla’s Book Reviews - Interview

May 3 - The Dan O’Brien Project - Promo/Excerpt

May 5 - Crossroads Reviews - Review

May 6 - Beauty in Ruins - Guest Post

May 8 - Reading Away the Days - Contest/Giveaway

May 9 - Ian’s Realm - Guest Post

May 10 - Angela Meadon - Interview

May 12 - A Book Vacation - Guest Post

May 14 - Azure Dwarf - Review

May 15 - Book in the Bag - Interview

May 16 - Word to Dreams - Spotlight and Giveaway

May 17 - The FlipSide fo Julianne Guest Post and Excerpt

May 18 - Mom Cat’s Book Blog - Guest Post

May 20 - Lost Inside the Covers - Review

May 21 - I Read a Book Once - Contest/Giveaaway

May 22 - Rachel Tsoumbakos - Review

May 23 - Darlenes Book Nook - Guest Post

May 26 - Bee’s Knees Reviews - Review

May 28 - Once Upon a Time - Guest Post

May 31 - Library Girl Reads and Reviews - Character Post