Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads of 2021
Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads of 2021

2021 is winding to a close, and it’s time to share my annual post about all my favorite fantasy reads from the year!

This is always both simultaneously one of my favorite and least favorite posts to write. Favorite because I love looking over the books I’ve read, reminiscing about the stories I loved, and recommending them. Least favorite because it’s a lot of fiddly work and because it’s always impossible to put them in an order I’m completely happy with. But, I’ll try.

I read 80 books this year! Not quite as many as last year, but some of my reads this year were on the longer side, and I got a TON more authoring work done this year than last year.

The books on this list are my fifteen favorite fantasy reads.

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Know the Novel - Part 3: Words Written
Know the Novel - Part 3: Words Written

November is over, and that means we get the questions for the final link-up of the 2021 edition of Know the Novel.

Know the Novel is a 3-part linkup series for writers, one for each of the last three months of the year. Each part features ten questions you can answer on your own blog (or anywhere else on social media, if you’d like!). The questions focus on different parts of your novel and how the writing is going.

Created by the amazing Christine Smith, this link-up encourages us to share bits from our works-in-progress and do a little authorly introspection, as well! I love this link-up and am enjoying being able to participate this year, despite going all NaNoWriMo Rebel-Rogue this year and editing instead of drafting!

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Christmas With The Chosen
Christmas With The Chosen

Looking for a perfect way to dive into Advent and kick off the Christmas season?

Find a way to go see The Chosen in theaters!

We started watching The Chosen back in February of 2020. Right before the world went nuts. Within 4 episodes, we decided to buy it on blu ray for ourselves, and for like 10 other people we wanted to gift it to, as well.

And someday in the near future, I will talk more about the show as a whole. But suffice to say that this show… this show, y’all… it’s beautiful. It’s epic. It’s life-changing and soul-shattering. It is everything a great show—a great story—should be, and more.

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Wheel of Time: Episodes 1-4
Wheel of Time: Episodes 1-4

So, the long-awaited Wheel of Time television adaptation is finally here!

I’ve been sort of… dreading? this series since I heard it was coming. A little backstory… I never watched even a single clip of Game of Thrones. One, I knew from what other people were saying that I wouldn’t appreciate the sexual content, and Two, I’d never read any of the books so I kinda didn’t care.

But when it comes to The Wheel of Time… well… I’ve read those books.

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