About the Book When she was a little girl, Gabby Morgan entered a strange manor house on a dare. Inside, she saw a ghost. Years passed, and now the older Gabby finds herself drawn to that house once again. Inside, she finds new ghosts, odd creatures, and a mysterious woman who is responsible for it all. Her name is Trem, a Manzazzu, an ancient cult of ghost summoners stretching back hundreds of years. Trem shows Gabby a world like no other and as their journey continues, they

I began reading this series earlier this year and I couldn't wait to get my hands on the latest installment! If you're new to the series, start with Starstruck and get ready for an adventure! Get Starstruck here About the Book Home is where the heart is. Or maybe the pizza. There’s no better feeling than being back home after a long week exploring the galaxy, though being abandoned by one’s friends and left to fend off a glitching evil robot spoils it. All that’s left is to s

Let’s get some things down first before we jump into the wonderful world of Orange Prose. What is prose? You say? And what, exactly makes it orange? And is it curable? All in good time. Also, no. Prose is this. This as well. And also, prose is this. It is everything, it is all encompassing, it is impossible to here describe prose to you without using it. Prose is written language that is not poetry. Now into the very scientific distinctions between the colors of prose. Whip o

Scatology: "interest in or treatment of obscene matters especially in literature” - Merriam Webster So, basically, your common fart joke. I can hear it now: “Oooo she’s a GIRL ‘course she don’t like poop and farts.” Right, yeah. That’s it. That’s why. You got me! Has to do with the ovaries, I think. Let me get on up on my milk box. No, not milk box. Soap box. I was thinking about Harvey Milk whom I always imagine on a soapbox because he was a great speaker. I’m getting off tr

This is part of series of blogs based on humor techniques I studied during my brief tenure as Serious Humorologist at the University of Oxyintelligent Oxymorons. “Newt did not smoke, because he did not allow nicotine or (until today) alcohol entry to the temple of his body or, more accurately, the small Welsh Methodist tin tabernacle of his body.” - Good Omens “Good Omens” is all the rage right now because of the excellent series which just came out. The book it's based on is

In art school, we learned that visual art is one thing: Contrast. Without contrast, you don’t have art. Art is what’s in between two different colors. Even a stick figure cannot exist without the black line to create contrast on a white page. Contrast is what’s interesting. Writing is the same way. It’s all about the contrast! It’s hard not to love a character doing something they don’t typically do. To watch Han Solo being altruistic, to read as Ron Weasley does something br