Category: blog

  • Book Review: Perfect by Waka T. Brown

    Book Review: Perfect by Waka T. Brown

    Perfect, words by Waka T. Brown, pictures by Yuko Jones My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first came across this book during a panel titled “Creating Picture Books” at the 2024 Portland Book Festival. I was interested in the subject matter but what ultimately swayed me to choose this panel over another one I…

  • Book Review: Eubeltic Descent by Nadine C. Keels

    Book Review: Eubeltic Descent by Nadine C. Keels

    Eubeltic Descent by Nadine C. Keels My rating: 4 of 5 stars First of all, I really enjoyed this book. Abigaia is an intelligent girl who communicates in more ways than one—signing, writing, and dancing. She is a dreamer who feels a pull toward the land of her ancestry. As a child, she experienced something…

  • Diversity in Christian Fiction Book Covers 2018-2019

    Diversity in Christian Fiction Book Covers 2018-2019

    I feel like I have to preface every tweet, conversation, and thought by saying “before the pandemic” or “during COVID” or “whenever the pandemic is over.” Don’t you? My final term as a graduate student in Book Publishing at Portland State University was held remotely, as well as the oral presentation of my graduate thesis.…

  • Bookish Blessings

    Bookish Blessings

    No matter how hard life gets, you can always press RESET when you reflect on God’s blessings.

  • March & April Book Haul

    March & April Book Haul

    All the books I’ve acquired March-April include MG/YA, nonfiction, fiction, short story, and religious.

  • My AWP Experience

    My AWP Experience

    It’s been more than a week since I went to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference, but I still want to share my experience. It was my first time visiting the Oregon Convention Center and let me tell you it was huuugee! Last I heard, there were over 14,000 people in attendance.…

  • From faith to Faith

    Welcome to the final result of years of inner turmoil + growth, AKA my blog. I had always been told I should write a blog, but I never knew what to write about and who would be interested in reading it. I also had this fear that whatever I wrote would expose too much of…