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Writing Mistakes: Numbering Books
Okay, so the mistake I'm covering in this post isn't technically a writing mistake, but it still affected The Genie Whisperer, so I thought it was worth mentioning! And this mistake has to do with the print copies of my book. Can you spot the issue below with the...
Writing Mistakes: Genies Being Invisible
In the world that I've created for The Genie Whisperer series, genies are, by default, invisible to all humans except for their master. If they want to be seen by other humans, they have to actively choose to be visible, though their masters can force them to remain...
Writing Mistakes: Genie Names
I love that genie names are something special in my world, that a genie revealing their name to a human is something significant. But there is a difficulty with having genies' real names be super special and secret, and that is me remembering not to reveal them before...
Writing Mistakes: People Don’t Title Their Heads!
Fun fact! People don't title their heads. They tilt them. But do I write that people title their heads? Yes, yes I do. . Perhaps you haven't noticed, but people tilt their heads in my books a lot. When they're confused. When they're trying to understand something....
Foreshadowing: The Archives
I adore foreshadowing in books. I feel a series is so much richer if you can reread the series and catch things you didn't notice before, because you didn't know what was coming when you read it the first time. With that love of mine, I knew I had to include...
Reverse Harem Research: Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time
Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time is another reverse harem manga series I studied to pick out repeated themes and tropes of the reverse harem genre. In this series, a young woman from our time is thrown into the past, where she discovers she is the priestess of a...