#A.L. Hawke

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November 2024 Wrap-Up

Personal Highlights from this month: Mr. Z turned 17 on November 20th. Our town’s annual Christmas parade is on November 22nd. It is fun to attend, and Miss R ends up with a lot of candy. Miss B turned 19 on November 24th. Miss B also registered for the next semester at college. Although she couldn’t register for the classes she wanted, she is taking German, English 101, Psychology 101,…

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Green Arrow (2023) #13 Connor Hawke Pride Month variant cover by A.L. Kaplan

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Green Arrow #13 (DC, June 2024) Pride Month variant cover by A.L. Kaplan

[ufonaut]

DC’S ANNUAL PRIDE COMIC BOOK ANTHOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS THE PUBLISHER’S AWARD-WINNING LGBTQIA+ LEGACY

DC Pride is back again with a brave, bold, and all-new collection of stories starring DC’s stable of fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters—many of whom will find themselves in thrilling team-ups the likes of which you’ve never seen before!

DC’s 2023 Pride collection of books and comics will be available at your local comic book shop, bookstore, library, and beyond, delivering bold stories, brave characters, and more pride than ever. DC Pride 2023 #1, DC’s annual anthology containing all-new stories spotlighting LGBTQIA+ fan favorites, will be published on May 30. The 104-page Prestige format comic will feature an introduction by Phil Jimenez, a main cover by Mateus Manhanini, and open-to-order variant covers by Gabriel Picolo (wraparound), Jen Bartel (spot foil), and Oscar Vega (cardstock).

The DC Pride 2023 creative teams and the characters they are developing stories for include:

Tim Drake and Connor Hawke by Nadia Shammas and Bruka Jones

Circuit Breaker and the Flash of Earth-11 by A.L. Kaplan

Midnighter, Apollo and Alan Scott Green Lantern by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo

Ghost-Maker and Catman vs. Cannon and Saber by Rex Ogle and Stephen Sadowski

Jon Kent and John Constantine by Christopher Cantwell and Skylar Patridge

Natasha Irons and Nubia by Mildred Louis

Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Crush by Leah Williams and Paulina Ganucheau

Multiversity by Grant Morrison and Hayden Sherman

and more!

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy go to extreme measures to get a little alone time…but there’s nowhere on the planet Crush can’t crash. Jon Kent gets a comprehensive course in dark magic when John Constantine sics a golem on him. Tim Drake and Connor Hawke learn that there is nothing more awkward than reuniting with an old friend after you’ve both come out and one of you was indoctrinated by the League of Shadows for a while. Circuit Breaker struggles to stifle his powers after the Flash of Earth-11 leaps out of the time stream and knocks them both into another dimension. Just how far would Flashlight go to honor his lost love? Discover all these stories and many more in DC Pride 2023!

DC’s Pride anthology comic will also include a five-page preview of an upcoming Dreamer story by Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman. Pinup pages in DC Pride 2023 will feature artwork by Maria Llovet, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt, Travis Moore, Noah Dao, Claire Roe, Babs Tarr, and more. With over 100 pages of original stories and content, DC Pride 2023 celebrates the boldest and bravest of DC’s Super Heroes!

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Green Arrow cover featuring Connor Hawke by A.L. Kaplan

[rekikiri]

books I read in jan, 2024

if you have read any of these and wish to talk about them, my DMs are always open <3

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none shall sleep - ellie marney

some shall break - ellie marney

check & mate - ali hazelwood

the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins

icebreaker (reread!) - a.l. graziadei

the foxhole court (reread!) - nora sakavic

the raven king (reread!) - nora sakavic

the king’s men (reread!) - nora sakavic

the raven boys - maggie stiefvater

the dream thieves - maggie stiefvater

blue lily, lily blue - maggie stiefvater

the raven king - maggie stiefvater

call down the hawk - maggie stiefvater

feb, 24

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DC Announces New “DC Pride” Anthology for 2023

DC Pride, DC Comics’ anthology of stories starring LGBTQIA+ characters, is returning for 2023. DC Pride 2023 #1 will release in a Prestige format and contain 104 pages. The anthology features on introduction by Phil Jimenez. Pinup pages hail from artists Maria Llovet, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt, Travis Moore, Noah Dao, Claire Roe, Babs Tarr, and more.

Creative teams and characters for DC Pride 2023 #1 include

Tim Drake and Connor Hawke story where they learn that reuniting with an old friend after both have come out (and one of you was indoctrinated by the League of Shadows) can be awkward from Nadia Shammas and Bruka Jones

Circuit Breaker and the Flash of Earth-11 story in which Circuit Breaker struggles to stifle his powers after Earth-11′s Flash jumps out of the time stream and knocks them both into another dimension from A.L. Kaplan

Midnighter, Apollo, and Alan Scott Green Lantern from Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo

Ghost-Maker and Catman vs. Cannon and Saber from Rex Ogle and Stephen Sadowski

Jon Kent and John Constantine story where John Constantine sics a golem on Jon Kent from Christopher Cantwell and Skylar Patridge

Natasha Irons and Nubia from Mildred Louis

Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Crush story in which Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy go to extreme measures for some alone time, but are constantly interrupted by Crush from Leah Williams and Paulina Ganucheau

Multiversity from Grant Morrison and Hayden Sherman

5-page preview of an upcoming Dreamer story from Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman

DC Pride 2023 #1 goes on sale on May 30, 2023. The anthology features a main cover by Mateus Manhanini and open-to-order variant covers by Gabriel Picolo (wraparound), Jen Bartel (spot foil), and Oscar Vega (cardstock).

(Image via DC Comics - Mateus Manhanini’s Cover of DC Pride 2023 #1)

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Some covers and art for DC’s Pride special for 2023, featuring Dreamer.

Stories and creative teams in this year’s special include -

Tim Drake and Connor Hawke by Nadia Shammas and Bruka Jones

Circuit Breaker and the Flash of Earth-11 by A.L. Kaplan

Midnighter, Apollo and Alan Scott Green Lantern by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo

Ghost-Maker and Catman vs. Cannon and Saber by Rex Ogle and Stephen Sadowski

Jon Kent and John Constantine by Christopher Cantwell and Skylar Patridge  Natasha Irons and Nubia by Mildred Louis

Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Crush by Leah Williams and Paulina Ganucheau

Multiversity by Grant Morrison and Hayden Sherman

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This year, stories in the anthology include one about Tim Drake and Connor Hawke by Nadia Shammas and Bruka Jones; Circuit Breaker and Flash of Earth-11 by A.L. Kaplan; Midnighter, Apollo, and Alan Scott Green Lantern by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo; Ghost-Maker and Catman vs. Cannon and Saber by Rex Ogle and Stephen Sadowski; Jon Kent and John Constantine by Christopher Cantwell and Skylar Patridge; Natasha Irons and Nubia by Mildred Louis; Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Crush by Leah Williams and Paulina Ganucheau; and Multiversity by Grant Morrison and Hayden Sherman.

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i never pointed it pu but it's been on my mind for a long time: shouldn't Pyrrha's body fix her nicotine dependency ?

wouldn't Nona's disguise be more successful with facepaint?

and why does Ianthe care about Cam anyways? or is it Gideon who cares? is she even there?

and this is an important but late question: why does the sixth want to open the locked tomb? or do they ?or do they just want to help BOE? I don't understand why. Pyrrha's not a war criminal.

why is it that Ianthe can't see Pyrrha's eyes have changed?

“You challenged the Sixth for its keys,” she said eventually. “You named the time. You backed down, but I had right of reply. We didn’t consent. Or reject. I accept the challenge of the Third.”

wow

“Stop being so fucking dramatic—”

“Staaahp being so fucking dramahhhtic,” Crown mimicked, in a high-pitched voice.

uh

Crown was pleading, “One fight … one last duel. You challenged her with Babs, you know, back on Canaan House. I didn’t do it. So follow through, for me. You always do things for me, don’t you? My heart’s own … my necromancer.”

Prince Ianthe Naberius shuddered.

wow I bet they fuck each other raw everynight

the weird sexual tension between them is suffocating me

seriously

“Yes, Warden, I will always know you.”

ahhhhhhhhhh

“Personally? She’s the last thing I have left of a woman I tried to trick into loving me, and got played myself. And for you? She might be you, kiddie.”

wow Wake really got some game. but she killed her.

The corpse looked at her in such mute, helpless appeal—spoke to her in her first language—that Nona did not have to think about what she did next. She leant down and laid a kiss right on that cool, dead, crooked mouth.

uuuuggghhhhh

that's your first kiss? come on!

ok fine that's like the first time their bodies touched after Gideon died, it is romantic

a living desire to take the corpse in her arms like Kevin’s wanting desire with his dolls. To own, to squeeze, to cosset and destroy.

wow ok Pyrrha uhhh landmine redheads am i right

Harrowhark Nonagesimus couldn’t have rolled aside that damned rock unless it was fresh out of the vat.”

so Pyrrha actually knows that it's open???

“Not my girl. Unlike some of us, I’ve never much seen the allure of an evil cougar,” he said crisply. “Good morning, Gideon.”

I will never look at Cytherea the same again

It was in Kiriona’s every movement—the bright, swift flexions of her arms, and the way she swung her legs, big and brash, and the weirdly easy, light grace with which she moved her dead body.Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life. It made her nearly afraid to die.

*crying*

“Gideon … G—, you died for nothing.”

they have pre-resurrection memories?

so Nona's not Griddlehark merged spirit, but A.L. and Harrow merged spirit??? is that it??

“Maybe that’s for the best,” said Pyrrha. Then she opened her mouth and said quietly—“A…”

I knew it... Pyrrha did say that she didnt hate her like the others do

“Don’t, don’t, don’t. Don’t do this to me, Pyrrha … Pyrrha, just let me die. It’s nicer. I can’t bear it.”

NO she's just a baby why why why

Then she leant down—she kissed her brusquely and briefly on the forehead—and, startlingly and even more briefly, on the mouth. Nona, who even then could never ditch the lessons of the hand and the mouth, watched that kiss and felt very sad. It was like watching Pyrrha stealing something she didn’t want to take—reaching out for the juicy, cherry-red part of the oven, even when she knew that all it could give her was a burn. And Nona saw Camilla, with her cold, navy blue mouth, and could tell that Camilla understood.Camilla said, “Could you try not to be such a chicken hawk, Pyrrha?”

what if like John had not actually been seperated from A.L.'s soul the whole time and no one coould really be seperated(*sleeptalking*)

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#BlogTour ~ Shadow Cast by A.L. Hawke @hawkethewriter @SDBookTours

  You can’t cast shadows in darkness. Shadow Cast The Hawthorne University Witch Series Book 6 by A.L. Hawke Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance         You can’t cast shadows in darkness. It’s the start of my second year of graduate school at Hawthorne University. (I wasn’t canned, okay?) Bryce and our dean organize an orientation meeting to recruit witches. Yep, it’s time to teach Alondra’s…

[thebridgeofdeaths]

Shadow Cast

The Hawthorne University Witch Series Book 6 by A.L. Hawke Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance   You can’t cast shadows in darkness.   You can’t cast shadows in darkness. It’s the start of my second year of graduate school at Hawthorne University. (I wasn’t canned, okay?) Bryce and our dean organize an orientation meeting to recruit witches. Yep, it’s time to teach Alondra’s…

[identity-library]

Mental Health (Books)

A:

Alice Isn't Dead (Joseph Fink)

Keisha Taylor (Anxiety)

Sylvia Parker (Anxiety)

All Our Broken Pieces (L.D. Crichton)

Lennon Davis (OCD)

A Step Toward Falling (Connie McGovern)

Belinda Montgomery (PTSD)

Lucas (Stage Fright)

Richard (Depression)

B:

Blind Spot (Laura Ellen)

Tricia Farni (Addiction - Drugs)

Bruised (Tanya Boteju)

Daya Wijesinghe (Grief, Self-Harm)

C:

D:

Doctor Sleep (Stephen King)

Daniel "Danny" Torrance (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol)

E:

Exit, Pursued by a Bear (E.K. Johnston)

Hermione Winters (Sexual Assault, Trauma)

F:

Fight Like a Girl (Sheena Kamal)

Trisha (Abuse, Guilt, Trauma)

G:

H:

Handle With Care (Jodi Picoult)

Amelia O'Keefe (Bulimia, Self Harm)

I:

Icebreaker (A.L. Graziadei)

Mickey James (Depression)

I Hope You're Listening (Tom Ryan)

Delia "Dee" Skinner (Trauma)

Indian Horse (Richard Wagamese)

Saul Indian Horse (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol, Racism, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

J:

K:

L:

M:

More Happy Than Not (Adam Silvera)

Aaron Soto (Depression)

N:

Nothing but Life (Brent van Staalduinen)

Wendell "Dill" Simms (Trauma)

O:

P:

Power Play (Eric Walters)

Cody (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol, Sexual Assault)

Punk 57 (Penelope Douglas)

Annie Grayson (Addiction - Drugs)

Manny Cortez (Addiction - Drugs, Depression)

Misha Lare (Depression, Grief)

Q:

R:

Rush (Jonathan Friesen)

Jake King (Addiction - Adrenaline)

S:

Sketches (Eric Walters)

Dana (Sexual Abuse, Trauma)

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)

Inej Ghafa (Trauma)

Jesper (Addiction - Gambling)

Kaz Brekker (Trauma)

Nina Zenik (Addiction - Drugs)

Somebody Told Me (Mia Siegert)

Aleks/Alexis (Trauma)

T:

The Agony of Bun O'Keefe (Heather Smith)

Bun O'Keefe (Abuse, Neglect, Trauma)

Chris (Abuse, Homophobia)

The Beauty of the Moment (Tanaz Bhathena)

Malcolm (Abuse, Trauma)

The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle Hassan)

Leo Merritt (Depression)

Tristan Drake (Abuse, Trauma)

The Good Hawk (Joseph Elliot)

Jaime (Anxiety)

The Immeasurable Depth of You (Maria Mora)

Brynn (Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, OCD)

The Luis Ortega Survival Club (Sonora Reyes)

Ariana Ruiz (Sexual Assault, Trauma)

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (Sabrina Khan)

Rukhsana Ali (Abuse, Homophobia, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

The Mosaic (Nina Berkhout)

Gabriel Finch (PTSD)

Twilight - Series (Stephanie Meyer)

Isabella "Bella" Swan (Depression)

U:

V:

W:

Warriors (Erin Hunter)

Bluestar (Depression)

What Unbreakable Looks Like (Kate McLaughlin)

Will Grayson, Will Grayson (David Levithan, John Green)

Will Grayson (Depression)

Alexa "Lex" Grace (Abuse, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

Wings of Fire - Series (Tui T. Sutherland)

Cricket (Abuse)

Fathom (PTSD)

Indigo (PTSD)

Qibli (Abuse)

Sora (Anxiety)

X:

Y:

Z:

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Nectar of Ambrosia - Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy Book by A.L. Hawke https://ift.tt/8VHNDzj Book promotion sites

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Nectar of Ambrosia - Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy Book by A.L. Hawke https://ift.tt/ha5Rr6Q book promotion sites

[ancientphantom]

The Curse of the Phantom Pirate by I.J. Parhom is a weird little Western version of the Phantom story, featuring Fergal, a guy who has just bought and is trying to reopen an abandoned theater, only to be harassed by the resident theater ghost, who is also a pirate. Also there’s a cowboy extorting a salary? It sounds wild.

The Phantom Idol by Hijiki Isoflavone is a new manga series, and I’m honestly not 100% on its Phantom-relatedness, but I’m game to find out! Yuuya is a famous pop star but doesn’t like his career or feel that he’s very talented, an issue that becomes abruptly moot when the ghost of a dead singer decides to possess him and make him perform well anyway.

Phantom Masquerade by A.L. Hawke is a modern-day sequel to the Phantom story, which we haven’t seen the likes of in... well, a hot minute, at least in books! Mina (probably meant to evoke the character from Stoker’s Dracula) is a descendent of the original Christine and trying to make it in opera in Paris, and finally gets her big break in Harlequin, a show based on Don Giovanni, but is stressed out by the conflict between her frightening performances, her best friend and their rapidly becoming romantic relationship, and a ghost that keeps intruding into her efforts.

Phantoms is a Halloween short story compendion that features the story “Death at the Masquerade” by Alaine Greyson, which a peek suggests is likely Phantom-related. Even if it isn’t, it’s the time of year to enjoy a little spookiness!

Requiem by Emily Shore is the last book in her Phantom series, which started with Roseblood and Silhouette. It’s got vampires, it’s got amnesia, it’s got accidentally waking up in Germany. It’s got it all.

We also have two reissues!

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge is one of the all-time terrible movie greats of the Phantom world, and if you were just dying to own it on Blu-Ray, now you can! I may have to buy it myself, since it has three different cuts of the movie on it and I have no idea which one I’ve seen or if other ones might make more (any) sense. Add a making-of documentary and a lot of behind-the-scenes material, and this is definitely worth it for a collector!

The Phantom of the Opera by J.R. Simons is an old 1990s play adaptation of the story, which is now available digitally! If you aren’t me and you don’t want to spend your life surrounded by boxes full of playscripts, this is exciting news.

That’s it for this month, so October - look alive, we’re going to be expecting fireworks for the Halloween Phantom season!