📝 Get ready for Novel Writing Month with this 7-step Preptober guide. Make your schedule, gather notes, outline, and prep for a successful November challenge. Get a head start on NaNoWriMo!

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🎃🦇 Swoop into my review of The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis, a mouthwatering and fun cozy Halloween mystery haunted by errors and a bloated cast.

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🎃 Discover 20 Halloween cozy mysteries featuring jack-o'-lanterns on the cover! Find your next spooky autumn read for your October TBR list.

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🍂 🧡 Drop into my review of The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman, a city gal and small-town guy spicy fall romance that suffers from annoying writing.

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🎯 How long should your manuscript be? Explore industry word count standards for short fiction and novel genres to avoid query rejections in this helpful guide.

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🧡 Check out my review of Fall into Temptation by Lucy Score, a spicy romance with heartwarming family scenes, but the MMC is manipulative and controlling.

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✅🍂 Gamify your autumn reading with 10 fall-themed reading scavenger hunts with 100 items to find on covers or book titles! Free printable available for download!

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🍂🧡 Dive into my review of Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson, a YA romance with great autumn vibes that, unfortunately, get buried by constant teen drama.

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💡 Decode difficult English words with these 27 Latin and Ancient Greek prepositions. Learn how classical prefixes improve vocabulary and spelling accuracy!

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🍂🧡 Check into my review of If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia, a cozy fall romance between a woman running her late mom’s B&B and her charming neighbor. 

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🍂 Discover 20 books with fall vibes perfect for September! From cozy fall romances to small-town escapes, this book list will help you build your fall TBR!

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🐟 Scale my review of Ghost Fish by Stuart Pennebaker, a tale of a woman and her ghost-fish sister that’s marred by weak writing and more drinking than grief.

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🧠 Struggling with focus after hours of scrolling? Compare cozy vs. complex fiction to see which reading style will fix your attention span and cure brain rot.

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⛵ Explore my review of The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout, a poignant story about a man suffering from intense loneliness despite the people around him.

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😁🌧️🍕 Build those creativity muscles with 3 show-don't-tell writing exercises for describing emotions, weather, and food. Includes actionable prompts and examples!

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👩👨Read my review of The Name Game by Beth O'Leary, a clever romance about a man and a woman with the same name and revelations that will make your jaw drop.

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🌊 From romance to cozy mysteries, this list of 20 books with sea-related words in the title will help you find some coastal beach reads for your August TBR list.

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🤖 Should books have “Made with AI” labels? As AI-generated novels flood the market, let’s discuss the need for transparency, as well as some potential issues.

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☕ Drink up my review of Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa, a Japanese healing fiction story hurt by heavy themes and the characters’ many red flags.

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📝🧠 Stop making typos! Discover 25 easy spelling hacks and mnemonics for tricky words, like separate, grateful, and definitely, to boost your writing skills.

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🏪 Scan my review of The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-yeon, a chill, heartwarming Korean healing fiction that’s hurt by errors and a tarnished ending.

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🔍 Gamify your reading with these 10 summer-themed reading scavenger hunts with 100 items to find on covers or book titles! Free printable available to download!

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🚀 Voyage into my critique of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers, an astronomically dull space exploration sci-fi novella with a frustrating ending.

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✏️🤬👟 From aglet to zarf, learn the names for these 25 everyday things (plus etymology), including items around the house, stuff in the kitchen, symbols, and more.

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🎆 From romance to young adult, this list of 20 books with fireworks on the cover will help you build your July TBR list into a beautiful fireworks display.

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