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Alicia Brown

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Category: writing

Freedom Dreamers book cover
advice, e-books, novel, publishing, reading, writing

10 Ways to Support Your Favorite Indie Authors

As an independently published author with my first novel due out next month, I have been so grateful for the outpouring of support from my friends (thank you so much; you all are amazing!). Some extra-awesome peeps have even asked […]

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019by Alicia Brown
e-books, historical fiction, news, novel, publishing, writing, YA

What I’ve Been Up To, Book Launch and Blog News!

Happy April! This month marks four years since I started recapping the Prydain series on this blog, and in that time, my life has changed a great deal. I started the “Prydain project” to fill my soul with joy as […]

April 2, 2019August 4, 2019by Alicia Brown
e-books, fun, holidays, short stories, writing

I Couldn’t Wait Until New Year’s to Share This!

I’ll be back next week with a new Prydain recap – the first chapter of “The High King” – but in the meantime, I’m excited to announce I’ve just published a new story, “Up, Up and Hooray!” If you’ve read […]

May 10, 2017by Alicia Brown
fun books, memoir, reading, workshop, writing

What I’m Reading: Let It Bleed

I’ve been a huge fan of Pamela Des Barres since I read “I’m With the Band” at age 15, and in recent years, I’ve had the good fortune to meet her in person and participate in her writing workshops. So […]

April 30, 2017by Alicia Brown
novel, prydain recaps, reading, writing, YA

The Story So Far…

(Or: How to Recap Four Books in Only Two Years) When I started this blog back in 2013, one of my challenges was finding topics to write about on a regular basis. Obviously, blogs are only worthwhile if they’re being […]

April 9, 2017by Alicia Brown
fun books, holidays, humor, memoir, news, novel, reading, words, writing

Musings on life, death, and the immortality of words

We interrupt this regularly scheduled “Taran Wanderer” chapter recap to reflect on the news events of this week – specifically, the deaths of Carrie Fisher (and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, a day later) and Richard Adams, author of my favorite […]

December 29, 2016by Alicia Brown
Atlanta Writers Club, body image, fun books, habits, reading, self-help, writing

What I’m Reading: Shine On

It’s not every day that I’m reading a book and suddenly up pops a mention of me, right there on the page. But that’s exactly what happened while I was reading Claire Cook’s “Shine On: How to Grow Awesome Instead […]

February 29, 2016by Alicia Brown
advice, Atlanta Writers Club, memoir, self-help, writing

What I’m Reading: Never Too Late

I just finished reading “Never Too Late: Your Roadmap to Reinvention (Without Getting Lost Along the Way),” which I bought after hearing the author speak at an Atlanta Writers Club meeting last month. As I’m approaching my 40th birthday and […]

March 23, 2015by Alicia Brown
writing, YA

What it means to be a writer

You know how sometimes you’re online and follow a random link, and end up reading something that speaks to you in a profound way that feels like you were meant to read it? I was just browsing through YA and […]

February 15, 2015by Alicia Brown
fun books, Great Books, novel, reading, teens, writing, YA

Why I Love YA

As those of you familiar with my blog already know, for someone with a master’s degree in English, I’ve read appallingly few of what the world considers important books, or Great Books. There are several reasons for this, but the […]

January 6, 2015by Alicia Brown

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