Sexypink - Out of the blocks for 2024. What a delight that a book begins the year.

From Dr Marsha Pearce's Facebook page...

I am happy to announce the release of Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean. The book is an edited collection of paintings by Trinidadian artist Edward Bowen and six short-story responses to Bowen's work, written by Trinidadian award-winning writers Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Presi Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

As Editor, Dr Marsha Pearce states...

With this book project, I ask: What stories lie beyond those experiences lit up by the sun–the light that is a defining feature of the tropics?

Howdy! I'm L.R Phillips, but you can just call me Lucian.

I'm gendervoid and queer. My pronouns are void/voids, it/its, and fir/firs. Do not use they/them for me.

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Main Current Book Projects (in order of importantance)

Life Itself (temp name)

Planning Era

????? (late 1800s/early 1900s settings vibes (gangs/outlaws, clothes, horse riding.), modern ideals and language, modern day cars/motorcycles, bullet proof vests, also there's magic potions and anthropomorphic animals in the background)- Young Adult

First Person POV.

POV Character: Luella "Liu" (she/her)

Themes: Man verses Society. Friendship. Hope. Honor.

Stand Alone?

Apart of the Life Itself (temp name)

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Superhero WIP Book 1.

Panning Era.

Superhero Fiction - Slice-of-life - Young Adult

3rd Person POV.

POV Character: Darcey Blackwell- she/her and 14 years old. Power set: anthropomorphic bunny with border collie features (nose and coat color)

Theme of the series: Coming-of-age, growing up, finding ones identity.

Series. 4 books.

Apart of the Superhero WIP Universe

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(via Resource Guide -)

At the end of 2020 I had 8 books on my physical TBR and decided to create a challenge for myself. I had to read or DNF all of the books on this list by the end of 2021. I had been working to scale down what felt like an enormous TBR shelf and this was just the books left over from that.

I can proudly say that I did complete this challenge pretty early in the year. I read all but one of these books which I DNF’d in February during the giant Texas Snowstorm. Because why force yourself to read something you don’t want to while you’re shivering in bed and your house is at 44 degrees? Here are the books:

1. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi– Legacy of Orisha #1. I read this one in May and rated it 3 stars.

2. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson– Fire and Thorns #1. I read this one in June and rated it 3.25 stars.

3. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. I DNF’d this one in February.

4. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence– Book of the Ancestor #1. I read this one in January and rated it 3 stars.

5. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan– Girls of Paper and Fire #1. I read this one in January and rated it 2.5 stars.

6. Strange Fire by Tommy Wallach– Anchor & Sophia #1. I read this one in April and rated it 2.25 stars.

7. The Young World by Chris Weitz– The Young World #1. I read this one in June and rated it 2 stars.

8. Blood Red Road by Moira Young– Dust Lands #1. I read this one in July and rated it 3 stars.

Stories of Qelt:

THE WINTERNIGHT TRILOGY meets MAHOU TSUKAI NO YOME

A free-spirited girl with dreams of freedom and adventure forms a bond with the Fæ of her village, to whom she must never tell her name. As she grows up, their relationship develops, and so does her craving for travels and the rest of the world - something disapproved by her village and her family, that she should never leave. 

The Northern Roads: 

YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU meets HOKUHOKUSEI NI KUMO TO IKE

Vikk, a lone Cartographer, meets Merashi, an eccentric Priestess on her pilgrimage, during a rainy night. He reluctantly takes her along, and the two of them start a long road trip through the mysterious, magic-filled Northern Roads. 

Chaosbringers: 

STEELHEART meets THOR

In a world of superpowers, the greatest villain is Seira, a young, scrawny girl with desperate destructive tendencies and a growing god complex. When Seira loses her powers, she ends up living two other villains, and teams up with them to take revenge against a branch of the government that harmed them all, all the while learning to be human again. 

I Rise: 

JORMUNGAND meets THE CRUEL PRINCE and SIX OF CROWS

The Kingdom of Aeva has nine crown heirs, pulling strings against one another in the kingdom’s underworld. When Kadijah, fearsome half-monster assassin, fails to kill the ninth prince, Abraham, he takes her as his bodyguard, and she joins him and his team of misfits in the dangerous intrigues and fights for the Aevan throne. 

Trash Children:

TOWER OF GOD meets AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER

Kôan tries to live like a normal person, despite being heir to one of the most powerful of Families in the world. When all the other Families declare war against her, she flees with her adoptive brother, Raehmn. But both of them are found by their respective nemesis: Shuugka, from the Family rival to Raehmn’s, and Myeing, heir to the other most powerful Family, prophesied to confront Kôan “at the end of it all”, in a fight that will decide the fate of the world. 

The Princess and the Witch (temporary name):

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA meets CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE

As a war threatens to break out, princess Lune is forced to marry someone to strengthen her kingdom’s political alliances. But she sets a condition: her suitor must bring her the legendary object that defeated the Evil Witch. Zaya, the former Evil Witch, owner of said legendary object, sees there her chance to redeem all Witches, currently banned from the kingdom. But first, she must survive the 3-month long, intrigue-filled engagement period, and earn princess Lune’s trust. 

Drown to You:

THE LITTLE MERMAID meets LOVELY COMPLEX 

squatted. in a gallery

in a tutu