DID YOU SAY IMPOSTOR SYNDROME?
WRITERS WEDNESDAY: For someone who struggles with impostor syndrome, evidence to the contrary doesn’t matter. They may be a renowned author, selling millions of books, or winning literary prizes and still feel like they don’t deserve any of it. They…
HOW I DATE THE STORIES
LET'S READ I think the very first encounter with a new story is pretty similar to the very first encounter with a new person: You spot them in the crowd. There’s something about them that sticks out and attracts your…
LET’S READ ACOTAR
CHECK IT OUT A Court of Thorns and Roses is the first book in Sarah J. Maas’s new adult book series of the same name. It appeared on the New York Times bestseller list when it was released in 2015,…
WHAT IS MAGIC?
WHAT IS MAGIC? When I decided to get back into the manuscripts for my Ulfrheim saga, it dawned on me that I had a lot of unanswered questions about magic. Some of these were fairly simple to work out, but…
TEASER TRAILER BREAKDOWN
WoT ON PRIME A teaser trailer breakdown is on the menu today. I’ve literally watched through this video so many times I think I could recite the scenes now. But before we jump back into the trailer, can we just…
WE GOT A TEASER TRAILER
WoT ON PRIME has been rather miserly with the sneak peeks behind the scenes of the Wheel of Time adaptation that will premiere before the end of the year. That’s why this message, posted on Instagram two days ago caused…
LET’S TALK
What’s Your Take on Magic?A LOT OF THE STORIES I read, watch and listen to have elements of magic in them. It can be anything from subtle hints to an underlying magic to elaborate magic systems. When I decided to get back into the manuscript for…
CHECK IT OUT: VAMPIRE ACADEMY
CHECK IT OUT: Vampire Academy is a film based on Richelle Mead’s book series about the American Vampire Academy, St Vladimir’s. It was released in 2014 and is available on Netflix and Prime Video now. It my search for universal truths…
FALLEN: FIRST DATE
THE TIME has come for me to talk about my date night with Fallen. The film. Before I start, I want to make it very clear that this is not a review. This is a tongue-in-cheek summary of my first…
SHADOWHUNTERS: FIRST DATE
AS IT TURNS out, Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted for the screen twice. First in the film Mortal Instruments: City of Bones from 2014, and then again in the tv-series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments that premiered in 2016…
VAMPIRES 101
VAMPIRES 101: What do we know to be true about vampires? Well, that probably depends on how many vampire stories we have digested in our lifetime. Some stories make vampires seem real. Almost. And others make them seem rather ridiculous.…
TWILIGHT SAGA – THE FIRST DATE
OK, LET ME START by saying this is not a review. This is a summary of Twilight, the film, and my initial comments based on our first date. In Twilight, the first of five films in The Twilight Saga, we…
SHORTLISTED TITLES SPRING 2020
IT’S OFFICIAL! I have started a shortlist of titles I have chosen to delve into during my storytelling exploits. I decided to pick four titles from the results I got when I was searching for vampires. I also decided to…
THE FALLEN SERIES
FALLEN IS an American film based on the first book in Lauren Kate’s Fallen Series. It was released in 2016/2017 and is available on Prime Video now. It was my initial study of nephilim and Shadowhunters that lead me to…
VAMPIRE STORIES TO READ & WATCH
IN MY SEARCH FOR vampire stories to sink my teeth into, I found quite a few. But then you guys got all busy in my socials and sent me even more suggestions, so I decided we need a list. Here…
THE SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES
Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles are the stories behind the 55-episode Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments. A Netflix/Disney/ABC production that premiered in 2016 and ran over three seasons. It is available for streaming on Netflix now. I had never heard of the…
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
DEBORAH HARKNESS’s All Souls Trilogy is the story behind A Discovery of Witches, a series that premiered on Sky One in 2018. I first came across the series when it showed up as a suggested title on Prime Video. I…
WHAT DOES FANTASY MEAN TO YOU?
FANTASY IS PROBABLY my favourite genre in storytelling. It gets a bad rep among literary snobs, but fantasy is so versatile it can, literally, be anything. If you think about it, quite a few of the stories that are held…
TALKING ABOUT THE TWILIGHT SAGA
THE TWILIGHT SAGA by Stephenie Meyer is probably one of the most read, watched, listened to, talked and written about series of our time. Hel, scratch that, it may very well be one of the most talked-about stories ever. As…
DATING THE STORIES
IF YOU WERE wondering how I go about dissecting the stories that interest me, I thought I’d make a post about my workflow. This is a system I have “perfected” over many years analysing different types of texts and finding…
