What's up, my homies? I know you're probably all thinking I dropped off the face of the earth, what with missing two Friday posts in a row...but don't worry, I have not yet abandoned you. Just drowning in a pile of homework, coffee work, and class work. Lots of work! I haven't really written anything in weeks, which is insanely depressing, but it's going to happen eventually. I hope, anyway. It had better happen.

I'm sure you don't care about that, though...today's post is a cover reveal from one of my dear friends, Nicki Chapelway! Her latest book, A Certain Sort of Madness, is in progress right now (I'm editing/alphaing it at the moment and it's incredible), and today I'm coming to you with the absolutely gorgeous cover. So, since I'm cruel...time to scroll.
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Alicia Hareton is crazy. But that’s nothing new. Her insanity is inherited from her mother, just like her magical abilities and her blood ties to the strange and alluring world of Amar. She’s spent her life on Earth and yet Amar has always called to her, an intoxicating melody that she cannot ignore. Returning to Amar would put her life in danger, but Alicia has never let such technicalities stop her before.

However, when her mother is captured due to her reckless actions, Alicia will do anything to rescue her. That includes trusting her grumpy, sarcastic imaginary friend, who claims he doesn’t know her and doesn’t seem that imaginary anymore. Or that trustworthy. Together, with the help of her cousin and a band of misfits, they partake in an extremely ill-advised heist on the faerie court in order to find a way to defeat the most powerful mage in all Amar, who also happens to be Alicia’s grandfather. But not everything in the faerie court is as it seems, and soon this unlikely group find themselves fighting for their lives as well as the lives of those they love.

In a world of madness and magic, the lines between lies and loyalty are blurred and sometimes the only option you have left is to let the insanity loose.

So what do you THINK? Are you going to read it?????????? I think Nicki's planning to release it in the winter at some point...

And now for the clickbait...

As I mentioned in the first paragraph of this post (the one you probably didn't read, haha) I have missed the last two weeks of blogging. This is just because I'm so insanely busy and, to be quite frank, I'm running low on time and inspiration for blogging. So here's my announcement:

Hey, everyone! Madeline J. Rose over at Short and Snappy created this challenge where you have to come up with books that are similar to your WIPs. Like "A Time to Die" meets "Wolf by Wolf," for example (just the first two books that came to mind, but OH MY SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE THAT BOOK.) So! Today you get a selection of Comp Titles that are similar to my books!

This won't be all of the books I've written/have ideas for (I came up with a new plot bunny last night, actuallly...haha) but it's going to be fun anyway. I hope.

This was a really fun challenge, but really tough...I will be tagging people, so prepare yourselves for that ;)

Here are Madeline's rules:

• Pick a few (or all!) of your WIPS!
• Give them some comp titles!
• Tag a few peoples if you wish!
• Have fun! 

The King's Daughter// X-Men meets Lord of the Rings meets the Last Jedi

*in Yzma voice* WRONG GIFFY!!!!!

Ink Storm//Fangirl meets Tomorrowland with Unicorns

Alone in this Dark//Wolf by Wolf meets Mockingjay Part 1 meets Man in the High Castle (without sci-fi elements)

White Rose//Les Miserables meets Nazi Germany

Wings//World War I meets The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe meets Game of Thrones (WITHOUT the content!)

Rise, You Lost Boy//Katniss Everdeen meets the Yearling

And the Sky Fell Down//The Refugee Crisis meets Star Wars

Teacher, Meet World//These Happy Golden Years meets The Lost Girl of Astor Street meets Star Wars meets Divergent

This month I wrote 58,017 words out of my goal of 70,000 in my novel The Winter's Chill. This was a very difficult book to write, you guys. It's the third book in the Pentegreens series, my hopefully epic fantasy series. While the second book was difficult and emotional to write, this one is harder on several levels. The second one had a lot going on, and despite the fact that there was in fact much raw emotion, it could be hidden thanks to the stuff going on.

But then this book happened...and there was no hiding from the emotion anymore. Ask my cabinmates...I may or may not have made myself cry writing my own story.

My creative well needed salvaging, so I stopped first drafting on the 26th. I probably could have finished the book and kept going, but I honestly didn't want to. I didn't want to force out something mediocre that I'd have to turn around and get rid of later on. So I stopped, and it all worked out alright. It was what needed to happen.

But enough of this....let me give you all some idea of what this story is about (without really saying anything because haha SPOILERS), some aesthetics, and some snippets. ;)

Blurb

Snippets