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5 star reads of 2024 ↳ novel problems by elizabeth luly

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I feel like it’s a bad sign when even the outline of your novel is never ending.

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❤️🧡 INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY 🤍🩷

QOTD: Who is your favourite fictional lesbian?

I am an absolute sucker for Jane Su from One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. She’s just 🔥

I also love all the lesbian main characters from the books featured in this post! I’ve gone and made the lesbian flag out of lesbian books and tbh I need more lesbian books with a white spine just so they can all be the same size next time I attempt this 😂

When googling to double check I had the days right, google told me “International Lesbian Day is mainly celebrated in Australia and New Zealand” which barely feels international but anyway! The more you know!

Happy International Lesbian Day to all my lovely lesbians 😘

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Books pictured:

❤️ Not Just Gal Pals by

🧡 Novel Problems by

🤍 Devotion by

🩷 The Henna Wars by

💜 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Novel Problems by Elizabeth Luly

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Thank you so much to the author for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Elizabeth Luly is easily one of my all time favourite authors so it’s no surprise this was another five star read for me.

I adored George in Not Just Gal Pals so getting her story here made me so happy. I loved getting to know her more, learn about her dreams and insecurities, her past and everything that makes her her. She’s such a loveable character, an absolute cinnamon roll as Hannah so aptly described her, and I loved seeing her get her happy ending.

Hannah was instantly loveable. Her aversion to tough conversations, the way she kept putting them off and justifying it to herself, was honestly so relatable. Her anxiety and the situation she let it put her in made ME anxious but it also just made me love her all the more because she felt so real.

Hannah and George were such a perfect match and I just felt absolutely giddy watching them fall in love and work out how that would work between them. Every concern they had was not only realistic, but really well handled on the page. Their open communication, even if it took a bit to work up the courage to get there, was so good to see.

I also just really enjoyed all the author details. I love books about books and books following authors are just so much fun to read about.

If you can’t tell, I absolutely can’t recommend this book enough.

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I need this!!

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High Fantasy Book Writing: 7 tips | Now Novel

Fantasy book writing involves extensive worldbuilding and has many pitfalls. Find out how to write better fantasy books that engross readers completely.

Stamp out all those fantasy cliches!

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21 Harsh But Eye-Opening Writing Tips From Great Authors

Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

If you need some inspiration to get you back to that blank page :)

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How to Write Urban Fantasy – 6 Magical Tips (and an exploration of the genre)

What is urban fantasy? What's the difference between urban fantasy and paranormal romance? These answers and more plus 6 tips on writing urban fantasy.

A great look at writing Urban Fantasy!