Week In Review: June 10, 2023

Morgan Hazelwood

In Case You Missed it, here’s the round-up of all of my latest content, plus updates from old guests! Read on if you want to know more. If not? See you next week with more writing tips and writerly musings.

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Content Around The Web:

On Youtube/Twitch:

On Season 6 of the Podcast “Writing Tips and Writerly Musings”:

  • Making Painful Edits – It’s hard to cut out scenes or characters that you love, but your story may be better off without them. How do you learn to recognize when something has to go, and how do you reconnect any threads that run through the parts you’re removing?

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On The Blog (In Case You Missed It):

Upcoming Events:

AWC – Better Beta Reading – June 23, 2023 at 7pm — Youtube

Imaginarium Convention 2023 – July 14-16th, 2023 – Louisville, KY

What I’ve Been Reading:

A whole lot of contemporary romances by Kayley Loring. Here are some of them.

The Boston Tomcats (#1-3)

I don’t know which is worse—the fact that our beloved Tomcats owner left the team to his estranged daughter, that she’s a finance nerd from New York who knows less than nothing about football…or that I mistook her for a secretary when we first met. In my defense, she thought I was the equipment guy.

She’s stubborn, uptight, infuriating, looks way too good in a skirt, and she’s wrong about absolutely everything—from pizza to how to run my team. We have to learn to work together without kissing or strangling each other.

But I can’t stop arguing with her. Even while I’m discovering how good she looks out of a skirt. Even when I’m realizing she might be right about some things after all.

I thought I had a winning play. But Hannah Strong changed everything.

Very Holiday (#1-4)

What’s the actual last thing you’d ever want your executive assistant to see you doing the morning after you had hot, drunk, angry sex with her in a terrible hotel room? Dancing around your terrible hotel room to “Come and Get Your Love” like Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy—naked? Yeah. Me too.

And yet, here we are. This isn’t even the most unprofessional thing that’s happened between us in the past couple of weeks.

The first was when I agreed to let her have Christmas Day off, but only if she goes with me to three family gatherings as my fake girlfriend. The second was when she caught me belting out a Christmas song on stage in the awful hotel bar. The third was the hot, drunk, angry sex that followed, but I do not regret it.

And she hasn’t even found out the real reason I need her by my side this holiday season.

I need to pull it together before I do the dumbest, most unprofessional thing of all—fall head over heels in love with the only assistant who’s lasted more than a month at the job and claims to hate me and my moods more than she hates eggnog. And I’ve seen how much she hates eggnog.

New Works By Previous Guests:

New from Lindsey Kinsella:

The Heart of Pangaea

Robyn has a vivid imagination, even for a twelve-year-old. Vivid enough to create herself a companion—but Ed isn’t your ordinary imaginary friend. Ed is a Dimetrodon, an ancient beast from a forgotten age.

When her mother falls ill, Robyn and Ed delve into her subconscious, to the prehistoric kingdom of Pangaea, in search of a cure. But in a world of dinosaurs, pirates, and ancient magic, can they find what they seek? Can they even save themselves from the creatures which inhabit this mysterious land?

The Heart of Pangaea brings the wonders of palaeontology to a vivid and magical fantasy setting. In this novel, the reader will dig up scientific discoveries, and be gripped by a story rich with the meaning of friendship, family, and love.

And new from Isra Sravenheart

Burned by the Fae (#1)

What do you get when you cross a British vampire, a drunken fae mixed breed human, a morbid demon, and a supernatural huntress in a spot of bother? A hell of a lot of trouble. That’s what you get!

Katerina Regan is twenty-four. She works part-time at a metaphysical store “Enchanted Dreams” whilst also being a supernatural huntress on the side. One night when Katerina is tucked in her bed she wakes up to her apartment set alight. Panicking, she calls for help and manages to escape unharmed. Running to her best friend Siobhan who quickly deserts Katerina in her hour of need.

Now she’s left alone with her other best friend of ten years; Elias Brett who is worried that the fire wasn’t an accident. Elias’s protective nature toward Katerina brings them closer when they sleep together. But before this commences Elias reveals that Lucien Devante; an eccentric British vampire with a love of tea might be the only one that can help her. Katerina soon feels like her dynamic with Elias is getting way too complicated so she seeks refuge from Lucien who is less than pleased with the arrangement showing Katerina his gruff side.

Katerina feels out of her depth with Lucien and also his creepy demonic assistant Warrick who is secretly eyeing her up as a tasty human sacrifice. It’s only when Elias chases after Katerina demanding she sees him that Lucien shows his more compassionate side; providing a friendly ear for her plight.

Elias is not only a mixed-breed fae but he’s harboring a secret. Elias has the trickiest dilemma of his life as his real romantic feelings come to the forefront while he’s trying to string some folks along and also save Katerina’s life.

Lucien plys Katerina with wine on a quiet evening inviting her to join him for a bath. Now with both Lucien and Elias vying for her affections, Elias is losing his grip on reality and Katerina. Can he hold it all together under the pressure? Lucien suspects that Elias may well be the reason that Katerina has so much attention from the dark supernatural world. But before he can do anything, tragedy strikes forcing Katerina to confront her worst fears.

Picture(s) of the Week:

This cat, y’all. He’s just so cute.

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Published by Morgan Hazelwood

Morgan Hazelwood (she/her) is a fantasy novelist who blogs and vlogs writing tips and writerly musings. She likes taking pictures of the sky, reading a good book, and ambiverting from her living room. She's also a voice for the fairy-tale audio drama: Anansi Storytime and its sister podcast: Legendsmith. She's been known to procrasti-clean her whole house and alphabetize other people's bookshelves.