Books, movies, and writing. You know, the good stuff.
Gather 'round, folks ... gather 'round! *waves you over to the campfire* My dear friend, Rachel Kovaciny, is publishing the third book in her Once Upon a Western series, and we're here today for the cover reveal!!! *excitement, intensifying* Once Upon a Western is a series of fairy tale retellings set in the Old West. ... Continue Reading →
*sepulchral tones, from beyond the grave* hellooooooooo ... children ... (Okay, that was creepy. I admit it.) In my previous posts for this series, I've broken down the basics of both MBTI and the Enneagram. Today, for the final installment, I'm here to talk about personality typing as a writing tool: how you can harness... Continue Reading →
*dances, gently, in the rain* So my MBTI post got an INSANE response from y'all (I love you guys ❤ ), and I promised I'd do a follow-up post explaining the Enneagram. Often presented as a kind of "rival" to the MBTI system, Enneagram actually works best when you pair it with cognitive function theory,... Continue Reading →
*sips black coffee* Greetings, comrades. So, MBTI, amiright? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the world's best-known personality sorting system. MBTI holds great sway over the wild lands of the Internet, is earnestly preached by corporate managers in their beige-painted boardrooms, annnnnnnnd ... kind of gets an eye-roll from everybody else. In my experience, anyway. Either because... Continue Reading →
What ho, gents! Two excellent pals, the lovely Miss Holmes of Gondor and the charming Maribeth, have tagged me for the Mystery Blogger Award ... and, coming off a miserable, stress-ridden week of pandemic emergency scares (long story, we're all good now), I couldn't be more grateful for the distraction. ❤ Mystery Blogger Award: Rules... Continue Reading →
I have a confession to make. *glances around furtively* *whispers* I don't have a favorite book. I don't!!! I tried and tried for years to single out a favorite book, and I just can't do it. I can't even break out a "top-favorite-BUT-here-are-my-other-second-favorites-running-close-behind" list. Any time I single out a top, supreme favorite, I feel... Continue Reading →
Ordinarily ... I'm a pretty nice person. Under stress, I am not a nice person. Under stress, like (say) a massive global pandemic coupled with weeks of isolation & boredom, Fun, Easygoing Katie disappears, to be replaced by Drill Sergeant Katie: liable to smack people down at any moment for even the smallest offenses. Some... Continue Reading →
(actual footage of me: above) So ... I know I'm not alone in finding the COVID-19 quarantine a singularly frustrating experience. Yes, I fully acknowledge: I have been lucky. Yes, I am home safe with my family. We've all stayed healthy so far. Yes, I still have work, and I'm still earning money to pay my... Continue Reading →
Greetings and salutations, fellow Worms of Books. (Was that too weird?? Sowwyyyy.) This is a post about my #reading #life of #late, and maybe, I don't know--maybe it'll come across a little too harsh. I hope not. But here we go anyway. It's now March, so we're three months into 2020. I've read fourteen books... Continue Reading →
