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[herashifts]

WHATS UR GHOST DR LIKE?

AAAAAAAAAA FIRST OF ALL, I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR ASKING !!!! I MADE A TIKTOK EXPLAINING THE BASICS HERE, BUT THIS IS AN EXCUSE TO RAMBLE ABOUT MY HYPERFIXATION SO I'LL PUT IT BELOW THE CUT

Ok so basically, it's is a combination of a bookstore owner DR and a DR where the lore of the band Ghost is real! So, the band itself has its own lore, like I mentioned, and its whole deal is that it is part of a (fictional!) Satanic church. (It's theistic Satanism, unlike the Satanic Temple in this reality, which doesn't actually worship Satan.) The lead singer of the band is the head of this church and has the rank of Papa (it's Italian for "Pope"), while the instrumentalists/backup singers are called Nameless Ghouls, or just Ghouls. The ghouls are demons summoned from Hell to serve the church. Fans have named the ghouls because Papa only ever introduces them as "Ghoul" onstage gjkfhbkjf

ANYWAY. The current Papa in this reality is Papa Emeritus IV, originally introduced as Cardinal Copia! (He got promoted hdfgjdhkf) Copia's my s/o! He's the love of my life, the other half of my soul, my everything. Copia, despite being a Cardinal in the Church of Satan, is an awkward doofus with anxiety and I absolutely adore him. He's just so hdjghdfkghfd <3333333 This is him:

Papa Emeritus I, II, and III are his brothers, but they don't know they're related yet. Papa Nihil is their dad, and all four of them are half brothers bc Nihil wasn't one for being faithful :')))) I can get more into the rest of the Satanic Panic's family tree later if you want me to, but to save time here, I'll hold off for now 🥰

Moving on, when I first shift to my DR, it will be when Copia is still a Cardinal and Papa Emeritus III (aka Terzo, the bisexual disaster himself) is still Papa. I have recently inherited a witchy bookshop ("The Witch's Inkwell") near the church's HQ, called the Ministry. Copia, being the world's biggest nerd, is going to swing by because he knew the previous owner, my uncle, and wanted to go shopping for new books. Instead, he sees me! That's how we meet, and thus begins a slow burn romance full of mutual pining and idiots in love. Copia's ghouls (the ones that he personally summoned from Hell) and Terzo are also probably going to try and parent trap us, so sjghkdfhg OH! Here's what some of Copia's ghouls look like for context asjdshjfkdhf

The ghouls themselves are feral little beasties but we love em <3

...Wow I really went into all this without really talking about myself huh 💀💀💀 Okie dokie then 😭😭😭 My name is Aoibhe (pronounced "EE-vuh," it's Irish fkjjdhgk) and I grew up in Bristol, only to move to Grimsbury when I inherited the shop! In my DR, Ireland was never conquered or colonized, and it has a royal family as famous as the British one. My family is actually distantly related to the Irish crown, too! I actually wrote a lot about the Irish royal family and how they fought off invaders, but the sparknotes version is that the people who would unite the island and lead the fight against those who would conquer it had a form of pyrokinesis! Over time, this ability became rarer and rarer until it vanished entirely, fading into legend. That is, of course, until my brother and I were born ;) So yeah I have fire powers fhjkghfdhf (I know it's cringe but I'm having fun, so let me live 😂😂😂)

So yeah! That's the basics dgjdhfkghd If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask!!! I love talking about this DR!!! <3333

@florashifting 💕💕💕

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia! I am missing you getting all wordy~ about some of your characters this month. So in rare chance that you would actually want to do it yourself but didn't get an ask to do it, here it is! lol For example - Januzs is good at baking, would he bake crusty bread rolls for Nate in your best tradition? Ef likes books - would he fall in love with the library if/when Gary bring him there? What's your fav fae elements analogies to write (mine is your water).

Hi anon,

This response might be frustrating, but the truth is, I don't know! I don't know until it's in the story. How I answer these things in anon is a bit different to how it actually is for the character in the story.

Like, maybe Efnisien will like a library, or maybe he won't. Based on Falling Falling Stars Efnisien, he probably won't as much as he likes bookstores. (Which I think would just be down to a confluence of factors including his social anxiety, and bookstores allow him to only deal with a social space once, vs. twice). But who knows! I do know that the area where he is currently with Gary has no library anywhere nearby. They'd be driving hours and hours to get to one.

But there is a cool little secondhand bookshop.

As for Janusz, who knows. I want to do more research into his heritage first, and I also want to know how he's learning to bake new things. I.e. if he's on baking groups and where they are (Facebook, Tiktok, a forum, a forum of Polish immigrants etc.) might influence what he's most interested in baking at the time. It's not a matter of simply coming up with something! These questions often require research or thinking about their character more deeply. :D

And my favourite fae element to write is probably water as well, though I also enjoyed fire with Eran so much. Water is naturally very emotive and expressive, so it lent itself to the metaphors extremely well!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Did you hear about the person in Utah who got the Bible banned in school for sexual and gross content? What are your thoughts on this?

Yes, I posted about it previously. It's funny because atheists have been saying for years that the bible is inappropriate for children.

Xians worry about the magical themes in fictional fantasy like Harry Potter, while their own completely "true" moral guide to life and the universe has demons, witches, magic spells, god making bets with the devil, talking animals, genocide, sex-slaves, dragons, incest, violence, and two bears murdering 42 children.

That said, I don't support banning it. Or any books.

However, there's a difference between "banning" a book and schools not including a book in their libraries. Schools are public in the sense that they're operated for the people, but not in the sense that anyone can just waltz in and expect access and services. They're protected spaces for children. So it's not unreasonable to classify books and other materials according to age-appropriateness. Just like we already do for films and TV shows. (Of course, private schools, such as Catholic schools, operate to their own criteria.)

If a book is deemed suitable for say, only 15 and older, then it doesn't need to be in elementary/primary schools. Especially when it talks about "vagina slime" and masturbating with a sock. Or casually endorses medicalized child sterility with "that's cool." That's not "banning" it, it's saving it for when it's actually appropriate. Although, when a book like that is ever appropriate, I have no idea.

It's also true that schools, especially elementary/primary and secondary often do not have the space or resources to carry every damn book. It's not unreasonable for any books being introduced to be justified in terms of budget and educational value. If the school doesn't carry it, go get it from a bookstore or public community library instead.

None of these could or should be considered "banning," if whatever criteria or rules are made transparent and applied consistently.

It should also be mentioned that elementary/primary and secondary school teachers do not enjoy "academic freedom," nor freedom of expression or speech in their capacity as teachers. They're government employees, and don't have the right to teach whatever they want however they want any more than Kim Davis had the freedom of religion to deny same-sex couples marriage licenses according to her personal beliefs. Teachers, like Davis, are agents of the government, and they are to do what they are told. As public servants, they're answerable to the parents and taxpayers, not some higher being or agenda.

Teachers who teach their own religious, political or ideological beliefs either as curriculum, or embedded into it, or exhibit a compulsion to make their faith, beliefs, personality, identity or politics central to the classroom are unfit and should be removed. They're an authoritarian narcissist getting their rocks off to a vulnerable captive audience. Which in many cases seems to be the point.

"Not until gentle Jesus, meek and mild, are you told if you don’t make the right propitiations you can depart into everlasting fire. One of the most wicked ideas ever preached and one that has ruined the lives and peace of mind of many, many children…preached to them by vicious, child-hating old men and women in the name of this ghasty cult."

-- Christopher Hitchens

The nun gleefully beating children with her strap, and the TikTok teacher boasting of confusing children with her imaginary pronouns are both enemies of children and education.

If they want academic freedom, they can go to the tertiary sector. But there they'll run into people who can and will argue back, which seems to explain certain categories of teacher.

For the same reason, the expectation that every preferred book must be accommodated in a school library and made available to children is completely unreasonable. Schools are spaces which must cater to the kids, not to the sensibilities, superstitions and egos of the teachers.

[purpleyoonn]

Hello Mari, how are you? I hope you are doing wonderfully well(;

Anyway, let me ask you a few questions! First of all, out of all the fanfics you've written so far, is there one that you consider your favorite? Are there fanfics that are more difficult to write and others that are relatively easier? Or are they all the same difficulty level? Ever thought about writing a physical book? (In my opinion, you have a lot of potential! I would definitely be one of the first in line at the bookstore, lol!).

And finally, how does your creativity work? Do you think about your stories very often? Or are there specific times for your creativity to kick in?

(OBS: Sorry for the list of questions! Don't feel pressured to answer, and forgive me if my English is bad! I'm still learning🙃).

A big hug for you dear, take care(:

Hello!! I am doing okay! Just normal life stress seeing as my car is now taking a turn for the less good and I might need to start looking around for another one😭

Out of all of my fics, I think baby might be my favorite one. I live the vibe of it and the way that it is going. I have so many ideas for it including different idol interactions and btsxmc interactions. I feel like the love in the bond is so pure that sometimes instincts overwrite normal thoughts or expectations.

I think there are definitely some fics that are more difficult to write than others. The most difficult one for me (because of the headspace I was in) is definitely a hand to hold. I truly think i might discontinue it. Petrichor is also a hard one to write for mainly because I have so much written for it in terms of world building. Im also trying not to take away from the mcs personality and her tenacity as she becomes an omega. I don’t want her to be a stereotypical omega in that right. I want her to have the same fire in her as when the met the boys and that’s kind of harder to maintain than I thought. Also, I find I like steering away from smut, and there is definitely going to be smut or at least mating between namjoon and mc within petrichor. I’ve been building up to it for 17 chs now and I don’t want to take away that build up from you guys.

Baby and tlblw are definitely some of the easier fics for me to write because I am more or less writing about my own experiences with my disabilities and just making them more or less something easier to understand and read about when it comes to an mc. Plus, people relate a lot to those mcs which helps a lot. They are more like self inserts than reader fics but I still write them as a reader fic.

I have actually thought about writing novels before. Last year I started world building for one, but quickly lost interest in it ngl. I think I could like rework some of my fics and publish them but mainly enchanted, dot, and petrichor. I have so many TikTok’s saved about publishing and self publishing. I wanted to be an editor/writer in a publishing house in high school but unfortunately listened to family and pursued teaching instead.

As for my creativity, I think about ideas and world building all the time. Even at work I’m constantly in my head, coming up with different stories or working on ones I’ve already thought up. I do have specific times though, where I absolutely need to write something down and my mind won’t let me do anything else until I do. I am very thankful for my notes app when this happens😂

pls don’t apologize and thank you for the big hug🥰🥰❤️❤️🥹🥹🥹

[thestalkerbunny]

I am very glad I am not into tiktok outside the video people I follow here repost, that place sounds utterly miserable.

See honestly, I can see both sides of it. Like. Obviously Tiktok is a breeding ground for bad ideas, stupid people and absolute shenanigans. I myself am guilty of hate watching problematic users and quietly going under my breath 'what the fuck is wrong with you, when did you fucking jump TRACKS' And there's a WEIRD amount of problematic vegans on there for some reason? or the algorithm just thinks I WANT to see the most problematic vegans on there. Which I do. Cause I wish to mock them with an audience of just myself.

But Tiktok has done many a good thing for me

-It's opened me up to a lot of new and different music I normally wouldn't get into, like Ghost, and many independent artists like Rio Romeo. I'm honestly trying a genre of music called 'Neoclassical Darkwave' cause I heard about it and it's.....REALLY trippy. Like Scary video game sound track weird. I like it honestly.

-Taught me how to microwave a potato to perfection so the skin isn't a hard shell but soft and tender. And how to reheat rice without it drying out. It's honestly taught me a LOT about cooking and honestly I enjoy watching other people from other countries cook on there.

-Helped me trouble shoot my computer and fix obs REPEATEDLY.

-Shown me new genres of literature. Been trying to get into SplatterPunk as of late; kinda hard to find at the regular bookstore, but I'm working on it. Also given me a shit ton of manga recommendations that are A plus.

-Gotten me into a lot of weird movies, shows and short films and indie animated things that I DIDNT think I would get into but I'm weirdly fascinated with.

So like.

Is it a terrible place? Oh fuck yes, fucking absolute nightmare fire and I don't mean that in like a endearing way; like I have seen and interacted with some fucking IDIOTS on there.

Is it useful to me? Oh yeah.

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[initiumseries]

So like, I’ve seen so many discussions on booktok when it comes to like… “spicy”(smutty) books and how booktok has a corn addiction and I find both arguments to be kind of stupid and lacking nuance. Like an addiction is also based on how it affects your quality of life and how you function and someone who prefers to read smut doesn’t necessarily mean their addicted to it. Idk a lot of the argument comes off puritanical. But like I still get the annoyance cus a lot of time pp precious things on booktok that contain 🍇 and dv that are advertised as romance. Idk, just wanted to know your thoughts.

Hmm, I do find some of the ideas of the younger folks a little puritanical. I think because I grew up in a time where the censors were so heavy, I remember there were HEATED debates over allowing "bitch" to be said in specific shows of a specific rating. I remember when you couldn't get more than a passionate kiss on screen and writers had to be really creative with sex scenes, and now we're at the other end of the pendulum swing where it's like, teen shows aren't even teen shows anymore because there's these graphic sex scenes not really appropriate for the target audience, so I can imagine that growing up in that would make you a little more prudish potentially.

That being said, I'm not sure if, when talking about "addiction" if they're being facetious or not. It's entirely possible they don't *seriously* mean addiction. I can't know that for sure because I don't know which tiktoks you're talking about specifically, but, in the event they aren't being sarcastic, it's weird to make those kinds of calls about someone else's interests. I worked in a bookstore for five years and one of the funniest parts of my day would be the reading group of 70+ year old women who came in with STACKS of harlequin novels, and they were SERIOUS about them. When the fire alarm went off, the refused to evacuate because we hadn't checked their books out yet. I think people can feel strongly about the things they like, like smutty books like harlequin, and it's not an addiction. I think if folks wanna read those kinds of books, there's nothing wrong with that, and no one is breaking down other people's doors and forcing them to read smut so anyone who doesn't want to should really just mind their business and keep it pushing, without all the judgment. Just my two cents.

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Callum (Pittsburgh Titans, Book #12)

Synopsis:

Callum Derringer was hired by the Pittsburgh Titans to help rebuild the organization after a devastating plane crash left its future unknown. Now that he’s got the team back on track, it’s time to put some effort into his own life.

When I accepted the job of general manager with the Titans, it was just the opportunity I needed to prove myself to the sports world. Unfortunately, my career isn’t the only area in which I’ve previously made mistakes and the past is about to come back in a big way.

Juniper Ryan is…complicated. Smart, funny and insanely gorgeous, she was my first love and my first heartbreak. But my loss was my stepbrother’s gain and she’s been his wife for five years now. I’ve done a decent job of putting her out of my mind but when I’m brought home for a family emergency and see the bruises on Juniper, I’m gutted to learn that she was pushed into the arms of a monster.

Vowing to put our past aside, I learn dark truths about my brother and his marriage to my first love. And to make matters worse, I’m beginning to realize the feelings I once had for Juniper aren’t tucked quite as far away as I had hoped.

When things take a dangerous turn, I’m willing to put myself in the line of fire to keep my girl safe. I was a fool to walk away from Juniper the first time and I’m a man who knows better than to make the same mistake twice.

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5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Callum, is the latest addition to the Pittsburgh Titans series. And if you love second chance romance stories then Callum Derringer and Juniiper “Juni” Ryan’s story is the story for you!

This emotional story brings it! Filled full of fear, danger, passion and romance that had me sitting on the edge of my seat as they take on this roller coaster of a journey A journey I didn’t see coming!

Callum is the General Manager of the Pittsburgh Titans, who loves his job but who has never forgotten the one that got away. When his mother has a fall and ends up in the hospital he returns home, to a place he would never return to except to help his mother and that’s where he sees her again.

Juni his first love is now the wife of his stepbrother Tristan. When he notices bruises on Juni and realizes that she is desperate to escape her abusive husband. Callum is on board to help her anyway he can and takes her back to Pittsburgh to start a new life. But will her new life include him…you will need to read to find out.

This book brought all the feels, I smiled, I cheered, I cried. It was an emotional ride with twists and turns I didn’t see coming. I was obsessed , captivated until the end! Loved this so much!

I received an early copy and this is my honest review.

[be-good-be-safe-be-kind]

(un)employment :(

getting increasingly frustrated with being unemployed and all of the circles i'm running in to find employment. slightly annoyed that i'm unable to file for unemployment, because i have not been legally employed since like 2014. also can't get disability aid because every time i take a tiny baby step forwards, i get knocked backwards into a wall (aka managed to get an evaluation after years of waiting, only to be told that i'm just anxious and choosing not to work). fantastic that i keep getting suggestions on how to improve my resume, and no one listening when i explain that there's only so many ways i can bullshit my skills and experiences sections when i haven't technically worked in nearly a decade and was a student for most of my life.

'work from home jobs and remote working is great!' yeah and a lot are commission only and/or MLM schemes, or are only available in certain areas despite being remote, or require you to buy your own equipment, or are actually travel-based / door-to-door sales stuff (and part of my disability is i can't drive). and a lot also require resumes and proof of employment history, and knowledge of specific industries like medical billing or insurance or auto repair.

terrific having a degree that doesn't mean much because 'english and creative writing with a concentration in screenwriting' might look good on paper but without a portfolio or anything sold and/or produced to prove that i can write, it's just bs (technically it's a BA but that's not the point). 'just be a teacher' uhh i can't, i'm not certified. 'okay then a tutor' that requires a different certification that i also don't have money for. 'what about a librari-' master's degree. 'oh you can have a blog!' sure. post... what, exactly, and make a profit... how? (which technically i know how to do; it is kinda funny though watching people sputter when i ask them follow-ups on this) love applying to jobs, getting ghosted, then seeing the little 'urgently hiring' banners on the listings months later, applying again, and still hearing nothing back. really does great things for my confidence to not receive any feedback as to why i'm not what these people are looking for, or what they do want. great that i get some automated 'click here to schedule an interview/follow up meeting' messages from recruiters and then the links are broken, or no spots are available, and i can't connect to an actual human person to ask for clarification because the emails are outgoing only and there's no way to reach them. delighted that for the past three years, every fucking retailer in a 10 mile radius is desperately hiring, with maybe two people working a five checkout store, and yet i either get ghosted or a notification every 90 days asking me if i want to re-submit my application. which i do, and have done, for three years. super fun finding out via screencaps (and then looking for the sources to confirm) that national geographic likely didn't get back to me because they're discontinuing print media, fired all staff writers, and have freelancers/contractors working on tiktok and tiktok-ified platforms.

[running out of positive words to pretend i'm not dying inside] that hundreds of emails confirmed i applied for jobs, in almost every field/industry that i meet the marks for, yet apparently i can't do any of these things. i can't shelve cans. can't stand at the counter of the college coffeeshop/bookstore. can't be a preschool TA (one of the only jobs i was legally working for years). can't do inventory or prepare food or take customer orders or work a cash register. can't edit study guides or write ads or do market research or write scripts for youtube 'deep' dives or literally dozens of other things that i went to school to learn how improve my skills. absolutely wonderful that simon & schuster got bought out by paramount, a struck company, (after federal ruling said they couldn't be bought out by penguin/random house/whoever else the fuck they consolidated) and then sold to a private company which is known for buying out places, bleeding them dry, and putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work, so even though i have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the job, idk. (this one's more of a ramble)

'reach out to people you know' idk how to break it to you, person making this suggestion, that you know i don't have irl people and the online people are in other timezones. and as much as i would love to move across the country to live with friends, not gonna do that to bag groceries and be unable to pay rent.

'you have to stop being so picky' okay fine let's try something. you sift through job boards and corporate websites with crappy filters, you get your hopes up when the little 'you meet all employer qualifications' thing is on the top of a listing, only to find you are in no way, shape, or form qualified, you set up accounts for bullshit portals and click through links to resubmit the same info four times only to be met with an asterisk requiring you to put current employer information, you get other surprise obstacles along the way like needing to record a video message or taking a 45 minute skills test on a 'quick apply' listing, you reply politely to recruiters saying they reviewed your profile and you'd be perfect for the job, knowing they did not, in fact, look at your profile at all because you cannot work in kentucky as an IT manager or pittsburgh as an accountant or boston as a goddamn dental surgeon. you drain all your batteries and find that the day is nearly over and you have nothing to show for it but eye strain.

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Hendrix: A Pittsburgh Titans Novel Sawyer Bennett Release Date: June 6, 2023

My Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3TUYMTW0I06NI?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

My GR Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591031475

Synopsis:

Hendrix Bateman is one of The Lucky Three, a trio of players who were not on the Titan’s team plane the night it crashed. Feeling as if he’s been given a second chance, Hendrix is determined to make the most out of his life, but that doesn’t mean he’s not suffering from scars that can’t be seen.

 When I lost my Titan brothers in the crash, it was a mixed bag of emotions. I was devastated and grief stricken, but I was also grateful to be alive. Yeah, that might cause a little—okay, a lot of—guilt, but now I’m determined to live each day as if it’s my last.

 A night out with friends puts me in the crosshairs of Stevie Kisner—the devastatingly beautiful bar owner with a sharp tongue and a fire in her eyes that lets me know she has zero tolerance for guys like me. I’ve never been one to back away from a challenge, so I’m not dissuaded by Stevie’s tough as nails attitude or her big biker dad who looks like he wants to kill me. Fueled by too many shots and the raucous urging of my teammates, I set out to show Stevie I’ve got game both on and off the ice.

 While I shouldn’t be looking for anything more than a good time, I can’t help but be captivated by Stevie. She’s cool as hell and we burn hot together. But the more I get to know her, the more I can tell she’s holding something in reserve, and let’s just say I’ve got some trust issues after my last disastrous attempt at a relationship. Now I need to decide if I’m going to let my past dictate my future or if I am willing to put my heart on the line to find out if Stevie is exactly what I think she is—my everything.

 Get Hendrix: A Pittsburgh Titans Novel in digital, signed paperback and audio (narrated by Tor Thom and CJ Bloom) direct from Sawyer: https://bit.ly/HendrixPO

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 PLEASE NOTE: Ebooks purchased from the Sawyer Bennett Bookstore will be delivered via BookFunnel and can be sent to the e-reader of your choice. Audio will be available exclusively on the Sawyer Bennett Bookstore for approximately 90 days before releasing at all retailers and libraries (excluding Audible). Hendrix is narrated by Tor Thom and CJ Bloom. Audio purchase from the Sawyer Bennett Bookstore must be enjoyed within the BookFunnel app (which is VERY user friendly and FREE!).

   About the Author:

 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Sawyer Bennett uses real life experience to create relatable stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From contemporary romance, fantasy romance, and both women’s and general fiction, Sawyer writes something for just about everyone.

 A former trial lawyer from North Carolina, when she is not bringing fiction to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to her very adorable daughter, as well as full-time servant to her wonderfully naughty dogs.

 If you’d like to receive a notification when Sawyer releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter (sawyerbennett.com/signup).

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Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read WE’LL NEVER TELL by Wendy Heard!

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog + bookstagram tour for the latest YA thriller from Wendy Heard, We’ll Never Tell! I’ve got all the details for you below along with my Top 5 Reasons to Read, so let’s go!

About the Book

title: We’ll Never Tell author: Wendy Heard publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books release date: 16 May 2023

An ambitious and juicy whodunit doused in Hollywood lore, perfect for readers of sexy summer thrillers like The Twin by Natasha Preston and The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.

No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We’ll Never Tell—a viral YouTube channel where the anonymous creators trespass behind the scenes of LA’s most intriguing locales. The team includes CASEY, quiet researcher and trivia champ; JACOB, voice narrator and video editor, who is secretly dating EDDIE, aspiring filmmaker; and ZOE, coder and breaking-and-entering extraordinaire.

Now senior year is winding down, and with their lives heading in different directions, the YouTubers vow to go out with a bang. Their last episode will be filmed at the infamous Valentini “murder house,” which has been left abandoned, bloodstained, and untouched since a shocking murder/suicide in 1972. When the teens break in, they capture epic footage. But someone trips an alarm, and it’s a mad dash to get out before the police arrive—at which point they realize only three of them escaped instead of four. Jacob is still inside, slain and bleeding out. Is his attack connected to the historic murder, or is one of their crew responsible?

A week of suspicions and cover-ups unfolds as Casey and her remaining friends try to stay alive long enough to solve murder mysteries past and present. If they do, their friendship may not survive. If they don’t, the house will claim more victims.

Add to Goodreads: We’ll Never Tell Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Indigo | Bookshop.org

About the Author

Wendy Heard is the author of suspense and thrillers for adults and teens, including THE KILL CLUB, SHE’S TOO PRETTY TO BURN, and DEAD END GIRLS. Wendy has spent most of her life in Los Angeles, California, which is on fire more than she would honestly prefer, and can often be found haunting local hiking trails and bookstores. She loves all things vintage and has a collection of thrillers and adventure books from the 80s.

Connect with Wendy: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | TikTok

Top 5 Reasons to Read

1. We���ll Never Tell is the kind of YA thriller that keeps me coming back to the genre!

2. The tension ratchets up slowly from page one until I was flipping pages so quickly I had to go back to make sure I didn’t miss something.

3. Wendy Heard (can’t believe this is my first book by her!) had me bouncing back and forth with theories about what was going on the entire time to the big reveal, which I love when an author can do.

4. In addition to the thriller aspect, We’ll Never Tell also tenderly examines grief and the impact of trauma, specifically the loss of a parent, on a child and those around her.

5. The book also explores generational trauma and the idea of whether we are destined to repeat the past mistakes of our ancestors.

6. Bonus reason: I absolutely loved the connection to old Hollywood (even though “old” in this case is, like, 3 years before I was born, lol) and the inclusion of news clippings and letters!

RATING: 5 stars!

**Disclosure: I received an early copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. 

Make sure you check out the bookstagram tour too! You can find my post here, and the full schedule is here.

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So we love Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday in general, but this one with our CEO/Founder @isisasare interviewing @lisellesambury with cohost Chelsea Lockhart (We Are The Origin) of @melanin_library was fire!!

(FYI, the captions are a little off. We are currently a small indie bookstore so we ask for grace!)

In this snippet, Chelsea asks Liselle Sambury why Liselle decided to write the young adult psychological thriller, Delicious Monsters. The answer might surprise you!! It definitely surprised us!!

Check out the full clip on @sistahscifi instagram https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpShMi1oPML/ to see if you are a part of the Toxic Mothers, Sad Daughters Club and participate in a Black witch themed This or That to honor the Blood Like Duology!

About Delicious Monsters: The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.

 If you have not already Delicious Monsters (published by @simonandschuster || @simonteen), you can purchase a SIGNED copy from our @Shopify, @Instagram, @Facebook, @TikTok, @Twitter, @Librofm and @Pinterest stores. Link in bio: @SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/delicious-monsters

Better yet, check it out from your local #library!!

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Thank you Claire from Schuler Books: some data for Queen's Thief fans

The tl;dr of this post is that QT is having an unprecedented surge of interest right now, and I used GoodReads to deliver some facts and figures to the Discord (The Geninsula), and now to Tumblr!

Under the cut: sources of the uptick, beautiful numbers, and a couple fun excerpts from recent reviews.

Part 1: selling out is good

We can actually track the start of the surge back to 2020's publication of Return of the Thief, because the series being complete got it a lot of positive press, but the activity of the past couple months (especially February-now, I'm writing on May 31 2022), has been another thing entirely.

RotT, and Disney+ optioning The Thief, has meant we're getting a lot of new international editions. The UK is getting a beautiful release of new editions in paperback and audiobook. The series is being translated into Spanish and Italian for the first time, and we know in The Geninsula of translations underway into Hebrew and Bangla. (Parts of the series have previously been released in at least 15 languages, but until now only Romanian had kept up with the whole set.) MWT is currently on a tour of Italy and the UK to promote these new editions, and a number of giveaways and influencer spotlights were arranged by publishers to get The Thief | Il ladro in readers' hands.

In March, the independent bookstore Schuler Books (not, as it has often been misreported, a library or Barnes & Noble) *posted a TikTok* of some of their staff showing off books they wish they could read for the first time, again. (It's adorable, click the link if you haven't seen it.) This TikTok went viral, now with 17.5 million views, and it opens with Claire talking about The Thief.

Only two weeks later, The Thief was sold out in US paperback. I'm talking gone. Even Amazon cannot get you a new copy of either the 2017 (Joel Tippie) or 2005 (Vince Natale) covers anymore, previously readily available, let alone older ones. They have to reprint it! In the meantime, the Steve West audiobook seems to be doing very well, and the hardcover unremarkably. Several Geninsula members who are members of large library systems have reported long waitlists typical of bestsellers. I wholly attribute this attention to Claire. Claire is the best, our hero!

Lots of recent reviews (see below) also said Laini Taylor suggested it, but if there's a specific recent source for that (she's a known fan of long standing), I can't find it. Let me know if you know!

Part 2: GoodReads is useful sometimes

So GoodReads *has this nice feature* where they rank the top 200 books from each publishing year, with #1 being the one their users have most interacted with, and refresh it monthly [Edit: this was a mistype, it’s weekly]--so you can see which books of the same age have remained or become popular as of this month [Edit: week]. This does not mean it only accounts for what was interacted with within that month [Edit: week], just that it's that up to date.

Right now, The Thief is number 14 out of all of 1996. The books that beat it are all truly famous things like Bridget Jones's Diary, Angela's Ashes, Fight Club, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (The only book ranked above it that hasn't been adapted for film is Neverwhere, which has received a radio play with a high-profile cast. [Edit: ...And is itself a novelization of a TV series.] [Edit: Infinite Jest has been a play, but not filmed.] I am making direct eye contact with Mickey Mouse.) Some of the other series marketed as fantasy it beats out include entries from Tortall, Discworld, The Witcher, and Redwall.

The Queen of Attolia is the only other one that is currently on the top 200 list for its year, but it's 77, above more Tamora Pierce, a boxset of A Song of Ice and Fire, and buzzy authors like Julia Quinn and Junji Ito.

The fact that a second book is ranking this high tells us people are currently working their way through the series in honestly what has to be large numbers. I won't be surprised if later books start ranking in the coming months.

It also tells us people really are actively reading them, not just marking the first one as possibly interesting--lots of users don't mark sequels as to-read until they've read the first, or the preceding one, etc.

Now, with the books ranked this high, how much interaction does that represent? Well, The Thief has 77,921 ratings, and 236,000+ shelvings, and considering that finishing without rating is somewhat uncommon…that's about 150,000 users who are planning to read, or currently reading, this book. The same math for QoA is less dramatic--about 20k people have it on the agenda--but when 20k is 50% of its all-time ratings, that's...still an explosion.

This of course only represents the people who a) use GoodReads and b) keep up with their to-be-read list there, so this is only a fraction of readers in general who are likely to read it in the near future.

Part 3: The reviews are in

Giveaways of advance reader copies in the UK led to a burst of reviews in February, which were a bit puzzling to read through, as a number of them seemed to me to have come from people who did not know the genre or even the age market for the book when they entered for it, and hadn't actually been drawn to the story therefore.

A much more striking wave of reviews came later, as the UK, Spanish, and Italian readers began to interact with it organically, and a large burst of people who specifically said they'd picked it up because of Claire from Schuler Books. (Or, more often, "A TikTok with a cute librarian [sic].") These reviews have the usual range of reactions, but an overall level of enthusiasm I feel is high.

Laini Taylor was the second-most successful recommender. Many people compared The Thief favorably to Rick Riordan, Leigh Bardugo, GRR Martin, and Sarah J. Maas. (This was the first time I'd seen the series pitched to SJM's fans! I haven't read her work, but hadn't thought it was in a similar niche.) I was delighted to see several people calling it the best fantasy of travel and landscape they've read since JRR Tolkien!

The apparent age range of reviewers is quite wide, which reflects my experience of the fandom, where I've regularly chatted with people from 13 to their 60s, and likely older. There were some very cute reactions from reviewing tweens and teenagers who said that they were surprised such an OLD book from the nineties held up.

Some other book trend remarks I found interesting: lots of surprise there was no romance, including some people who, looking for a potential romance among the traveling party, proposed both Gen/Sophos (fine) and Gen/the magus (insane, thank you so much, I have questions.) A number of people who remarked that they were pleased to find a fantasy that wasn't "too fantastical," lots of positivity about feeling it had a "timeless" style, and one person who said they have found it difficult to find engaging recent YA books with boy protagonists.

Delightful excerpts from reviews of TT:

a novel that is a credit to the English language.

I loved the world MWT created, had it been an artwork it would perhaps have been more Claude Monet than Michelangelo

[Original review in Spanish, from Argentina] Gen is the best thing that has ever happened to me

The Thief also pairs very nicely with cheese and dried fruit.

The importance of narrators:

I'm giving this a 5 star rating because I listened to it as an audiobook and the narrator sounds like Henry Cavill and I have a crush on him. So, 5 stars.

And my favorite reaction to The Queen of Attolia:

This is shockingly...kinky???

Okay, thanks for reading! I'm really excited, since it looks like the fandom is in the process of...tripling? Something like that. If you have news about how the book is being promoted, or new translations/re-releases, I'd love to hear!