Concerning the newsletter
May 2026’s Newsletter: “Learning from Media: Anime and Writing Overpowered Heroes” Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: The hero swaggers onto the scene. They burst out flashy fight moves. Enemies fall left and right. The hero flies through and nothing can touch them. Are they even trying? Lights, fireworks, lots of special effects. […]
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April 2026’s Newsletter: “Books Written by Indie Bookstagrammers” I network on Instagram a lot these days, so plenty of Indie authors’ books have ended up on my TBR. I thought I’d share some with you today! This book rec list contains books self-published or produced by bookstagrammers. (Bookstagrammers: Instagrammers who post about books and book-related
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March 2026’s newsletter: “Book Recommendation: The Summer War” Naomi Novik brings us another new fairy tale in her stand-alone novella, “The Summer War.” I love stories with close siblings, and siblings are a central theme in this novella. I try to avoid spoilers when writing my recommendations, but I fell into revealing more with this
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February 2026’s newsletter: “Catching an Introvert – Lollie’s World Pokemon Battle” Perhaps it’s because I’ve been playing a Pokemon RPG with my friends, but it seems Pokemon’s been on my mind lately. This comic’s a bit long to squeeze into my usual Lollie’s World format, so I hope you’re okay with receiving it here. (No, you
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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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