What Books Helped Inspire A&R

Every year I say I’m going to get better about posting here and every year I start strong and then, like so many January gym memberships, I slowly forget about it. But thanks to an opportunity I was given, I can at least start this year out strong and post in January! I was recently approached to share what books inspired me when I first wrote World of Ash and I am all about sharing the love…

So this week, Friday to be exact, I have a book releasing. This one was a weird one for me. I wrote it as a flash fiction exercise for my patrons over at my Patreon page. So it took a fair bit of editing once it was done. By the time I was done with it, I wasn’t even sure if it was a book or not.

But, my critique partners all assured me it was, in fact, a book. The three of them and my editor all…

Paperback Cover for Blackbird

Hello my loverlies! I just wanted to share a pretty with you to cheer up your mid-week slump.

I hope you love it as much as I!

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Hello loverlies! This is just your periodic reminder that I am over on Patreon sharing goodies for pledgers and non-pledgers alike.

For those of you who can’t pledge any monies, I am sharing a weekly tarot card reading. It’s a single card draw to give a little guidance and insight to the week ahead. I haven’t missed a week since starting on March 12th. It’s a public post that anyone can view.

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Plot: A mysterious blindness strikes an unnamed city, and the government attempts to respond before social order crumbles. A temporary "quarantine" area is created as a protective measure and the book follows a variety of narrators afflicted with the blindness.

In-progress Review: I'm approximately half-way through this apocalyptic novel. It is written in a peculiar style (no names, no quotation marks, few paragraph breaks) which seems to accentuate the "blind" feeling of the novel's protagonists. Saramago blinds the reader, just as the characters themselves are blind to the differentiating characteristics of the world. It is one of the few novels of this genre that focuses on the "afflicted" (but then again, this is also one of the few novels that does not involve a fatal or prima facie de-humanizing disease- ex: zombie epidemic- so that makes it far easier to have characters who can be "full" characters), and that places the narration in a far more interesting place than other novels. This also seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it novel (some friends have liked it, others have not, mostly due to the style of the writing). Another interesting thing to note is that original title is "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" which means "Essay on blindness" (somewhat innocuous, eh? Which makes the contents all the more chilling.).