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Next on the Reading List

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After sending out queries, and revising my work for the next #DVpit. I have been reading. Finally after weeks on my library e-book holds. I got the Grisha trilogy.  After I finish it along with a few other young adult books I'm reading I will be moving over to a genre that is my most loved. HISTORICAL FICTION. I know. I know. People don't like it but I LOVE IT! Historical fiction made me want to teach history. It all started when I read American Girl books Josephina. I love it! Whether it's based on historical figures, a story set during any place in history or historical fantasy. Point is I love it all! Here are a few I found at my library I'm going to be reading soon.

Food in Latinx Fantasy

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One of the reasons my story takes place in this country is because I grew up around a lot of people of this culture. The country has a beautiful rich culture that is also influenced from their African ancestors, but also the country is beautiful. One of the things that made writing this so difficult was about the food. I love their food. When I lived in Georgia, which is where I went to school from first grade until I graduated high school, I loved when the school did culture day! Learning about every culture was just fascinating, and I loved every minute of it! I discovered a weakness for this countries food at the time. These are some of the dishes in my Latinx historical fantasy Moqueca Capixaba Ceviche is also a popular dish in all Latinx countries. Shrimp Ceviche Ceviche of Sea Bass Maria Mole Cajuzinho 

Aesthetic for my Latinx Alternate Historical Fantasy

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I'm a visual learner. I like to have a visual as to what I'm writing. I made this when I was writing as a motivator. When I wrote this, after my first two manuscripts I wrote that essentially got nowhere. This story was the first one in a long time I was excited writing about as it had never been done before. It has it all, sexy court romance, Brazilian palace and carnival!

Pride Book: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

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In honor of pride month I really wanted to help transgender writers, and I came across this book. The story follows Amanda Hardy, who moves in her estranged dad to start a new life for her senior year of high school. Amanda is determined to stay under-wraps until she starts falling for football player Grant, an easy going guy who' s interested in her. As she starts to let him in she realizes she deserves to find happiness even if she couldn't be truly faithful about something. Things are going well for Amanda as she now has a boyfriend and friends while carry a dark secret. She's transgender and was previously known as Andrew. Amanda is worried about what will happen if her secret came out. After what she went through in her old school she realizes that in order to survive she can't let her secret slip. Review: First off there was so much to love about this book! This is an LGBTQA+ book about transgender girl, written by transgender woman and the model on the cover is t...

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Writing in Isolation During COVID-19

Hello World, I hope wherever you are you are trying to stay as safe as possible. This is going to be a difficult next few months.  My town so far has not had any major issues as our count of the infected is still low, but I am taking extreme precautions. I'm lucky to where my current job allows me to work from home, and I always buy in extra every grocery story run, so I have a good amount of stock. I work part-time as a librarian and until further notice all libraries are closed.  It's scary. I don't know if it's a sign that I've read too many dystopian novels, but I FEEL like I'm living in a dystopian book where a highly dangerous drug is spreading and killing people. Where food is scarce and everyone is fighting over getting to the stores to buy the last of everything before it runs out. Where the money is dried up and people are struggling. I might have read it in books, but it's starting to seem too real. On Writing I have two diverse YA fantasies that ...

The Big Question I Always Get Asked

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When I was in middle school, a very popular book that was released in 2005 about a human girl who was clumsy and fell down all the time and was in a relationship with her very controlling vampire boyfriend. "Why don't you like that series?" I get this question A LOT. It came back to me during this semester in children's literature for my MLIS course. We were given a list of books to read Harry Potter was on the list along with that very popular series at the time. I told my professor the issues I had with those books, and she encouraged me to write about that. She said talk about what you don't like about it.  So when the reflection came, I had to give it a long thought, and it made me go back to middle school and high school. This may give away my age, but when that book was published in 2005, I read it way before it was a best-seller and became a phenomenon, I was in middle school 7th grade to be exact.  So as to why I preferred Harry Potter over that series Sim...