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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February 2025’s newsletter: “A Poem for Those Who Need It” Hello, friend! I know this year has been hard for a lot of people. And it’s going to continue to be hard for a while. You’re always welcome here. I hope this poem brings a little cheer to your day, and my emails can continue
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January 2025’s newsletter: “Ranking My Reads From 2024.” Hello, friend! Another year of reading is over. Because I like torturing myself, it’s time to rank my reads from 2024! Ranking things is really hard. I read so many great books and series! (Maybe I should do a tier system next year? Thoughts?) Since ranking great
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December 2024’s newsletter: My Top 5 Favorite Christmas Movies My family celebrates Christmas, and one of our many traditions is watching Christmas movies together. I have a soft spot for the classic films from my childhood. Magical, heartwarming moments that remind me of sitting on the couch gazing at the Christmas tree while carols play,
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November 2024’s newsletter: Series Recommendation of Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians Librarians are lying to you. (Sorry, Heidi. I’m sure you’re not in on the conspiracy.) They don’t want you to read “Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians” by Alcatraz Smedry (under the identity of Brandon Sanderson): an action-packed middle grade, adventure, 5-book series. If you
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October 2024’s Newsletter – The Family Flash Fiction Want more fun content like this straight to your inbox? Sign up for my Dragon’s Horde of Friends here! If the pdf has failed to load, “The Family” is available through the following link:
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September 2024’s newsletter: “The Three Wishes” by Guest Author Christina van Starkenburg Hello, friend! We have a guest author for our September newsletter. Christina Van Starkenburg is sharing her fairytale retelling short story with our Dragon’s Horde of Friends. As a gold fairy, Aurianna’s life has always been fairly comfortable. No spiderwebs and dew drops for
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August 2024’s Newsletter: A Guide to the Known World Hello, friend! SURPRISE! I’ve prepared a new gift for joining the Dragon’s Horde of Friends! Previously, those who signed up to this community received an exclusive world map. I’ve since expanded on the gift by creating a guide to the world of my upcoming novel, “Together
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July 2024’s newsletter: Choose Your Character Hello, friend! What’s this? A computer fighting game based on my Lollie’s World webcomic characters? Well, not really. But it’s fun imagining everyone’s stats and weapons. I wonder what their moves would be! Which character would you pick? Let me know in the comments! Thanks for reading! -S. Labrecque
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