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PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp July 11-17 Check-In

Hey all, Sam here. Four weeks down, two weeks to go. I think this is the longest I’ve been able to stick with a writing challenge in quite a while, even if I feel like I could be doing a bit better. Well, with another week completed, I guess it’s time to look back on my goals for the Pathfinder Writers Collective Bookish Bootcamp and see how I’m spending my week as I work towards building up…

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PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp July 4-10th Check-In

Hey all, Sam here. Wow, all right, so we are already halfway through this Bookish Bootcamp that focuses on writing skills and wellness drills. I think I could probably be doing a little better with it, but I’m still meeting my goals, so I’ll consider it to be a decent writing progress anyway. Well, with another week completed, I guess it’s time to look back on my goals for the Pathfinder…

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NetGalley Review: Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier

Hey all, Sam here. Today I’d like to wish a very happy book birthday to Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier. This is the first book in the Wolf and Magpie duology. I was lucky enough to be offered a digital copy through NetGalley, and I gladly accepted because the book sounded interesting. As always, I will continue to say that any book I request or accept on NetGalley is a book that I would pick up and…

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PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp June 27 - July 3 Check-In

Hey all, Sam here. Okay, this post is a couple hours later than I had planned, but I needed to have a late start for the day so I could do a little bit of relaxing. This past week was a doozy and I am glad that it is over. Anyway, we have reached my next check-in for PaWriCo’s Bookish Bootcamp. I can’t believe that we’re two weeks into this six week challenge already. Time is absolutely flying…

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June Wrap-Up

Hey all, Sam here. We have made it halfway through the year! Somehow we have survived half of this year. At times it has absolutely been a struggle, but here we are, still trying to keep going. This has been such a difficult year already, and I know a lot of us are concerned about the present and the future. I don’t know how, but somehow we’ll get through this. Anyway, we’ve reached that time…

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Manga Review: Betrayed by the Hero, I Formed a MILF Party with His Mom! Vol 1 by Ishino Yassan and Makoto Kuon

Hey all, Sam here. You know what, I haven’t done a manga review post in quite some time (probably because it’s been a bit since I’ve read any), so let’s have a Manga Monday again. I make no promises about being able to bring this back every Monday, but I should try and get back to some of the series I was working my way through, as well as talk about some of the other volumes I’ve picked up, so…

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NetGalley Review: Pearly Gates by Bonnie Solomon

Hey all, Sam here. I think today is a good day to review a book, especially since I have so many books I still need to review. While I do have a whole bunch of books I’ve read and would like to talk about, my primary review focus is on my NetGalley reads at the moment, so I can try and work on improving my review percentage a bit. Honestly I might just do a mini-review spread for some of my…

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PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp June 20-26 Check-In

Hey all, Sam here. All right, well we have finished the first week of the PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp, and I figured it would be a nice time to check-in and give a breakdown of how my week went for this whole challenge. Some days are a little more active than others, but I tried to make sure that I tried to accomplish something each day, even if that something wasn’t technically something that I…

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I'm Looking Forward to These July Releases

Hey all, Sam here. Coming to the end of June, it’s time to look forward to July and all the fantastic books coming out that I’m looking forward to adding to my shelves. And thankfully there are a number of books I’m adding to my lists. As with any month, there are a number of books I’ve been approved for on NetGalley, and I need to get a little more focused on writing up my reviews. Actually,…

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NetGalley Review: Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods

Hey all, Sam here. Welcome back to another fiction focused Tabletop Tuesday, because yes, I have read yet another book where one of the main focuses of the story is all the characters playing TTRPGs together. I’m starting to see a whole bunch more of these types of books coming out, and honestly, I want to read every last one of them. The first thing I’m going to say about today’s book review…

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PaWriCo Bookish Bootcamp

Hey all, Sam here. I need to get back to writing and creativity. It has felt EXTRA hard for the past 7-8 months, although it has been pretty difficult for the past two years. I keep wanting to tell my stories and to get them down on the page, and they’ve been simmering in my mind all this time, with me daydreaming and plotting and figuring out details about different scenes and details and…

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NetGalley Review: Realm of Thieves by Karina Halle

Hey all, Sam here. Hello and happy book birthday to today’s review. I meant to have this posted earlier today, but by the time I got off work late last night, the last thing I wanted to do was to open my computer and finalize this post. Still, I at least have it up on the day that I meant to post it, which is a win in my book. I’ve actually finished a few books already this month, and need to…

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May Wrap-Up

Hey all, Sam here. I definitely meant to have this post up on Tuesday, but we had a huge storm come through and we lost power for a good portion of the day. Then Wednesday we were doing the final bits of prep work for a downtown market we vend David’s 3d prints at, and Thursday was the actual market, so it was a busy few days. Anyway, May was a pretty decent month overall and I managed to get a…

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Getting Excited for the Books of June

Hey all, Sam here. Gosh, this year is kind of flying by, which feels strange considering what a wild ride 2025 has been so far. But here we are, approaching a new month, and that means I’m looking ahead at a whole new slew of book releases. June is another pretty great month for releases, and I’ve been lucky that most of the books I’m anticipating are books that I’ve been approved for via…

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NetGalley Review: A Fate Forged in Fire by Hazel McBride

Hey all, Sam here. Okay, I was doing good for about a week there with getting regular reviews up (especially since I have so many waiting for me to type up the review post), but then I ended up taking a break to recover from all the traveling I did for my vacation. I’m going to try and get another few reviews up this week, so we’ll see if I can keep up with this lofty yet achievable goal. I…

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NetGalley Review: The Last Raven by Helen Glynn Jones

Hey all, Sam here. Most of the time when I am approved for a book on NetGalley, it’s going to end up as a read I enjoy, and a majority of the time the rating is 3 stars or better. One could make the statement that my reviews aren’t as good or are biased because I rarely have negative reviews. My typical response to that is I am nearing (insert age here, which at the moment is 37) and I have…

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NetGalley Review: The Last Session Graphic Novel by Jasmine Walls, Dozerdraws, and Micah Myers

Hey all, Sam here. You know, I haven’t done a Tabletop Tuesday post in a little while, and I might try to start getting back to that with a couple tabletop posts a month because David and I have two rather solid D&D groups going right now and I’d love to talk about that more, but until then, I have something that is sort of tabletop related…. a graphic novel review that’s about a TTRPG group as…