Concerning the newsletter
January 2026’s newsletter: “My Reads from 2025” This is the time where I would usually send out an article ranking my reads from the previous year. I decided I didn’t like ranking the books I read. I was stressing while reading each book on how I would rank them, which goes against the point of […]
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December 2025’s newsletter: “Why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best” Ask me what is the best Christmas movie of all time, and I’ll tell you: The Muppet Christmas Carol. I’ll also tell you The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of this classic novel’s best adaptations around. No, for real. And here’s why. A Loyal
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November 2025’s newsletter: “Foils in Wednesday: Yet Another Reason to Love Enid” I finished the second season of “Wednesday” last month, and one of the show’s ongoing plotlines is the unlikely (and wonderful) friendship between Wednesday and Enid. I can’t help reflecting about how Enid is Wednesday’s perfect foil, and how much their character foil
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October 2025’s newsletter: “Spooky Book Recommendations for October” I love the Halloween season! And what better way to get into the spirit of things (sorry for the pun) than reading ghostly, ghoulish, and spooky books. I’ve picked out ten titles that I think you’ll enjoy, ranging from horror to fantasy to romance, and middle grade to
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August 2025’s newsletter: “Character Art for Dez and the Iron Prince” I thought I’d share some of the character art I’ve drawn for my WIP MG fantasy novel, “Dez and the Iron Prince.” If you were a part of my beta reader team while I was editing the book, these characters might already be familiar! If
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July 2025’s newsletter: “2025 Mid-Year Read Ranking” We’re halfway through the year, so it’s a good time to pause and see what books I’ve been reading. (Spoiler alert: it’s mostly the Stormlight Archives.) Since I’m not very good at ranking things, I’ve decided to try a new approach this year. Instead of ranking every book
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June 2025’s newsletter: Book Recommendations with Asexual and Aromantic Characters for Pride Month It’s pride month! I was brainstorming what special main feature to do for pride month. Since I am aro-ace, I decided to do a list of books with aro-ace rep. Good asexual and aromantic representation is so hard to find in media,
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May 2025’s newsletter: “Book Recommendation: Cattywampus.” “Cattywampus” by Ash Van Otterloo is a stand-alone, LGBTQ+, middle grade, witch contemporary-fantasy. It was my March 2025 Trans Rights Readathon read. My librarian cousin recommended this book months ago, but it took me a while to get around to reading it. Why did I wait so long?! “Cattywampus”
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April 2025’s Newsletter: “Learning From Media: Moana 2 and Writing Sequels” When “Moana 2” came out, it was met with frustrated audiences. (Yes, I’m a little late on this one.) While I haven’t seen the movie myself, I have watched enough video essays to notice a pattern in how the audience reacted to the sequel
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March 2025’s Newsletter: “Queer Books to Buy Before They’re Banned.” It’s important to support diverse authors now more than ever. The future of the book industry is uncertain. Queer books are already banned in many places. Whether or not they’ll be labeled “porn” and banned on a national level remains to be seen. I’ve compiled
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