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It’s release day!

After a little over two years in the making, I am so happy to say that my latest book is finally here!

Please welcome my latest book, A Flash Of Magic, to the great big world!

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my book, The Goblin and the Dancer, is a finalist for the Realm Maker’s Reader’s Choice Award.

For various reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about death and the purpose of life. (Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be depressing, just bear with me)

In the past few years, our nation has become obsessed with death. Doom is always a scroll away, reminding us how we walk on the knife edge of life.

And so we look away from the fire and into the shadows, fixated by death. When will it get us? How can we keep it from claiming others? And when life is so sad and ends so horribly, how is anything we do while we live significant?

I look around at the world and then down at my “silly, little fairy tales” and think, what’s the point? An inspiring Instagram caption, a funny story, a book club, they can all feel horrendously insignificant, even irreverent. The feeling that we are laughing at a funeral comes over us, and we shrink into grim silence as we remember that death is coming for all of us someday.

Then I read Beowulf.

Reading this classic piece stirred my faith up; turning ashes into sparks.

Sometimes, stories can reach us when our spirits have become cold to Scripture, and the story of Beowulf answered my twofold question: how do we deal with death, and how do we make our lives significant while we live?

Kindle Unlimited. So what is it, exactly? Here’s what Amazon has to say.

Kindle Unlimited is a service that allows you to read as much as you want, choosing from over 2 million titles, thousands of audio books, and select magazine subscriptions. Explore new authors, books, and genres from mysteries and romance to sci-fi and more. You can read on any device. It’s available for $9.99 a month and you can cancel anytime. Try it free for 30 days.

Raise your hand if you’re a last minute Christmas shopper.

Ahem, you can’t see me right now, but I’m raising my hand. It’s only a few weeks till Christmas and from the way I’ve been procrastinating, you would think I had some guy in a red suit handling all my gift giving for me.

If you’re anything like me, you’re still looking for last-minute stocking stuffers for your nearest and dearest. Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to create a Christmas shopping guide just for you, my favorite book lovers.

But wait, this isn’t just a list of fabulous books, it isn’t just a list of inexpensive ebooks, this is a list featuring only indie and small press authors.

So you can give the gift that keeps on giving this year by supporting small authors AND giving your friends some amazing stocking stuffers.

Or, you can absolutely give yourself a Christmas present and keep them for yourself.

So are you ready? Here we go; my top recommendations, separated neatly by genre and category.

In the spirit of blogging more on my author site and keeping things a little lighter (i.e. more like me), I’ve been looking around for some appropriately bookish tags for this space. And, when you’re looking for blogging inspiration, look no further than my friend Rachel Kovaciny at The Edge Of The Precipice, who comes up with the best blog tags!

In honor of Thanksgiving, Rachel came up with a tag that is all about our gratitude for BOOKS. As you can see below, all the prompts spell out the words GIVE THANKS. Isn’t that darling? It looked like so much fun that I just had to play along. So are you ready? Let’s talk about the books we’re grateful for!

The Goblin and the Dancer is now eleven days old and the blog tour is officially over. I must admit, I’m tired and rather relieved that the release is over, but I’m also so grateful.