Book Review – “Aestus: Book 1: The City”
*Overall 3.5/4 Stars Out of 5: Somewhat outside my usual sci-fi/speculative fiction preferences, but solid premise, great atmosphere, engaging main character, empathetic exploration of humanity and values, and hot sensitive-warrior-type men to vicariously pine after (if hot men are your thing). Read on for more details (if details are also your thing).* [Disclaimer: This is…
Countdown to Doomsday: Finally Setting a Time Limit on Finishing the Passion Project WIP
I began writing Farewell, Mr. Tilbey somewhere in the neighbourhood of 6-and-a-half years ago. The prologue came to me in a flash of inspiration when my mom received her terminal cancer diagnosis. Over the remaining 4-and-a-half years of her life, I would write most of the story, and share it with her periodically, reading her…
Coffee, Tears, and Coos (or: Settling in as “Mom”, and Creative/Professional Updates for 2022)
Hell. Has it really been almost a year since I wrote a blog post? There’s psyching yourself out about follow-through with a new site/blog… and then there’s that. Yikes. Not that I have a massive readership hanging around to be disappointed, but still. Principle of the thing. Anyway, yes, as a matter of fact, I…
Oh no… not another aspiring novelist…
Welcome to the blog of a shameless cliché. Well. Here we are, checking off all the boxes typical of a writer who’s hit and passed their 30th birthday without having yet become a runaway success in their field, or even just published and at least occasionally appreciated (by someone other than their mother or writer’s…
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Celine Aubert 