Hey all, Sam here. Last year I wanted to participate in the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour, but we just ended up not really having the time to plan out visits to bookstores because of our schedules. But this year, I told David that I wanted to try and visit at least a handful of the… Continue reading A Day on the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour
Hey all, Sam here. Okay, this is a little overdue, but it took me a little longer to recover from Gen Con than I expected. We had a couple of very long days at the convention, and then the two days after we got back, I had to go in to work, so there wasn't… Continue reading July 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. We are just over a week away from Gen Con, so I think now is a close enough time to talk about my schedule, because I have a lot of fun events planned. I like to do this every year, partly because I get to see if anyone wants to hear… Continue reading Gen Con 2026
Hey all, Sam here. All right, here we go....July is already off to a better start than June (because this is my second blog post of the month, and I only had two posts in all of last month). It was a wild and packed month, though, and there is a lot to cover in… Continue reading June 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. Okay, so June was obviously a reading focused month, which was wonderful, and I was happy to be able to focus on that, because I really needed a good reading month. I'd missed the feeling of just devouring book after book. That being said, I did mostly let my attention drift… Continue reading PaWriCo’s Bookish Bootcamp 2026
Hey all, Sam here. So, of course, the same day as my June TBR post goes live, I have a co-worker who has decided that it would be fun for us to having a reading contest. Now, I should say that I love this co-worker, and it's overall a low stakes contest...but it does mean… Continue reading A Bonus Pride June TBR
Hey all, Sam here. Today I wanted to try and do a little something different. We'll see how this goes and I might explore some other fun sub-genres moving forward. There has been a massive rise in popularity for the LitRPG genre of books the past couple of years, although the format first achieved popularity… Continue reading Genre Exploration: LitRGP
Hey all, Sam here. Welcome back to another Weekend Writer post. I've had my Freewrite Traveler for just over three weeks, and I figured it was time for a quick little post about it. Also, Freewrite is hosting a 50K May writing challenge, and yes, I already know that I'm trying to build up my… Continue reading Weekend Writer: Freewrite Traveler
Hey all, Sam here. Do you know how difficult it was to choose which book was going to be the featured image for this post? There were like three books I wanted to choose, but unless I edited them to be all together in one image, I had to narrow it down to just one.… Continue reading April 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. This post should have been up MONTHS ago. It's kind of obvious to say that it has really been a struggle for me to write, whether that is my stories or here on the blog. I'm trying to work my way through some things and find ways to motivate myself to… Continue reading My Top Ten Reads of 2025 (July-Dec Edition)
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