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✨ It's two weeks until Hanukkah and Christmas! ✨

If you celebrate or who have loved ones who do, and you're looking for a gift -- I'm running a holiday sale of my novel, A Box Full of Darkness. It's just $1 USD on Kindle through the end of the month. :) If you would prefer a paperback, it is currently $12 USD.

Here's what reviewers are saying...

"I had a hard time putting this book down. Tessa, Ryan, and the rest of the cast felt so real and well-rounded, and I found myself cheering and crying along with them. While the book covers a lot of dark subjects, the author handles them with the proper care and gravity, while at the same time letting hope and love shine through. A wonderful read!"

"A book that had me ignoring housework and reading instead! The story moves along with interesting changes all along the way. Loved every page and learned a lot about the military and politics. A must read!"

"I've been in a reading slump for a while now but I finished this book in three days. I know this sounds weird but I've never been so proud of a book character until Tessa. She is the heart of the book and the way the author treats her and all the other characters with compassion and care brought me to tears several times. In addition the political angle and stories of friendship kept this character driven book so refreshing and interesting!! Loved it!!"

"This is an absolute work of art. If you like character-driven stories full of emotions and resilience, political intrigue, questions surrounding morality in complicated relationships, and amazing writing, you’ll love this."

"Just finished my reread of this book after the US election news and it comforted me so much."

#so grateful to everyone who has read the novel so far #reblogs tremendously appreciated #if you have read it please feel free to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads!#eternal props to @chewytran for her cover design and @broomchickabroom for her interior design #if you want royai vibes this is the novel for you :)

walkingeverywhere

Can someone tell me if the new lorde is good or no

chrisweedpiano

me when I'm a serf questioning royalty

renmoldovan

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89cats

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currentlycryingaboutlancelot

just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

“those without a coat of arms wear a lion” insane. if i was about to joust with some guy and he said that to me i would just quit. bro already won

themousefromfantasyland

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mask131

Wow, I didn't know that!

a-book-of-creatures

That’s a heraldic insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated right now.

galileosballs

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

hyperlexichypatia

When I complain about increased surveillance, control, and infantilization of older kids and young adults, it's often a level of surveillance and control that wouldn't have been possible, or at least practical, in previous generations. At minimum, it would've been escapable.