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Words of the day are “cool” and “awesome.” If I knew how to set up a counter, I’d do so to mock my overuse of the words. Also, after I filmed this, I realized, you can access the website for Dacre Stoker to get the more up-to-date notices about his #nft project. You don’t need me to filter that to you! Here’s the web address: http://dacrestoker.com/ There’s a newsletter signup right there on the home page. A link for the #enchantedrealms box set pre-orders (official launch is July 28): https://bit.ly/enchantedfantasyrealms The Star Chamber show I reference is a radio program on BlogTalkRadio at this link: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/starchambershow The fancy schmancy award I rec’d is at this short video: https://youtube.com/shorts/pOA0A-Jn9jQ The imaginarium website is here: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/ Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… NEW BOOKS NOTICE: https://bit.ly/ChoicesAnnounced Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

I neglected to buy this at #imaginarium last year, so I had to order it off Amazon about a month after the convention. No worries! It could sit on the TBR shelf like all the other books from the convention, waiting for me to get this round of convention authors repped here on the channel. :) The horror novel "New Era" by Tommy B. Smith is the first of his "Black Carmenia" series from Raven Tale Publishing and is guaranteed to give you shivers. Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

This is a quick review & discussion of the 1991 edition of the 1975 commentaries series installment "Malachi" in the "Thru the Bible Radio" program, which was committed to print when I was a wee lass. I explain why I selected this particular prophet to focus on in the video. Pardon the strung-out appearance--I'd been dealing with chicken fencing. It's a thing. I mention in the video The Choices series release stuff coming up. There's some update since I filmed: Cover reveals coming in early June. Release by July. I fully encourage y'all to subscribe to my newsletter for updates and a column by Malachi the dragon. ;) The newsletter link is in my Linktree or right here https://bit.ly/SSReNews Some ways to get more bookly with Author Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ THERE ARE 2 NEW BOOKISH DESIGNS in the Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

#sandysaysread #booktube #bookhaul This is a quick bookhaul from the Florida West Coast Writers Ignite Your Imagination Conference held at the Tampa Airport Marriott May 18-21. I couldn't take a ton of time off the day job, so I went down there for Friday-Sunday. Great networking event! I served on the paranormal romance panel to represent the Faerie Holidays series and that's the series I had at my author table. Check out these cool reads I picked up as freebies and as purchases from other author tables. Lots of reviews coming in the future! Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

In anticipation of this year's 10-year #anniversary of the Imaginarium #Convention for #creatives taking place in Louisville, I've filmed the annual Imaginarium Tag with enough time for others to participate. I'd like to see folks on Rumble who wish to be a part of the excitement, grab the list of prompts below and join in! Check out the website https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/ for registration info, guest/panelist info, the Imadjinns finalists mentioned in the video, the film festival entries that were announced between the filming of this vid and its upload, and (like a Billy Idol song) more more more. #TerryBrooks #DacreStoker #JeffMudgett #writerscommunity #filmmakers #screenwriters #musicians #gamers #cosplay #artists #bookcoverdesign #indiepublishing #literaryagents #editors The 10-Year Anniversary Version of the #BeforeImaginariumTag 1. Introduce yourself. 2. Are you going to Imaginarium and where are you coming from? 3. Will you be participating as an attendee or as a panelist/guest/other? (Tell us what panels you're on so we can put them on our schedules!) 4. What "extra" activities are you planning to do? 5. Who are you most excited to meet this year? 6. Which film in the festival are you most excited to watch? 7. Which book or screenplay or other work in the Imadjinns have you read so far and what did you think of it? 8. What is the big thing you want to get out of this year's event? Now invite someone else to participate as well! Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/ Enchanted Realms Preorder: https://bit.ly/enchantedrealmsbn

This #collection of short stories from J. Patrick Lemarr, published by Write Crowd Publishing in 2022, is for reading with ALL the lights on. I purchased this book of 13 tales in the #horror genre from Patrick's booth at the 2022 #imaginarium #convention in Kentucky. The stories are independent tales but have a common thread tying them together--if you pay attention to find it. The titles of the short stories: Ch.1 The Eyes and Corrine Mathers Ch.2 Layover Ch.3 Freak Girl Ch.4 The Tiny Door: Invasion Ch.5 Afterparty Ch.6 Stained Ch.7 The Poison Pen: The Cure Ch.8 The Tiny Door: Caitlin's War Ch.9 The Eyes and Evan Richmond Ch.10 Smile Ch.11 Husk Ch.12 The Poison Pen: The Curse Ch.13 The Eyes of the Margrave I'm also asking viewers to help me find a YA/children's story from the 1970s/80s that mirrors one of the concepts facing The Author Gentry Lumley (struggling and perhaps cursed author in a couple of the twisted tales). Some ways to get more bookly with Author Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

#sandysaysread #childrensbookreview #construction This book review is a little different for the channel, but no worries! It's great! "Girls Who Build" by Marisa L. RIchards, illustrated by Folksnfables, is available now from her squarespace store. Available June 1 (or preorder now) at Amazon. https://mrichards.squarespace.com/ Some ways to get more bookly with Author Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

#SandySaysRead #booktube #nonfictionbooks This review for "You Can't Joke About That" by Kat Timpf includes my 18-year-old confession of idiocy. Dive in for that. Her book is subtitled: Why Everything is Funny, Nothing is Sacred, and We're All in This Together. GREAT summary for this #nonfiction, #thoughtprovoking look at how we can support each other through rough times instead of looking for ways to see violence in each other's random quips. #freespeech #humor Ways to get more bookly with Author Sandy Lender: Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

I'd rate "Roots Down to Hell" by #ConservativeAuthor Matthew Louis a 4.5 out of 5 stars. In the video, I reference the review of Joe Navarro's "Dangerous Personalities," which you can view here: https://youtu.be/dlv44_SZlys Other ways to get bookly with Sandy: Subscribe to the free newsletter https://bit.ly/SSReNews Check out the website https://www.sandylenderink.com/ You can find "Roots Down to Hell" at the 'zon and at https://gutterbooks.com/ When the character Kevin Chapman says, "pushing the life-fluid steadily out of the hole Michelle had made in me," he's talking about more than the knife wound in his shoulder. And that's the excellent writing you can expect from Matthew Louis throughout "Roots Down to Hell." He has written the predatory narcissist so well that you instantly revile him, yet you instantly revile the wife who taunts the guy with killing his child and screwing a woman on the side. I found myself worried that Kevin--trying to cover up murder(s)--was about to get caught multiple times. Kudos to Louis for this conflicting trauma! Ha! As others have mentioned, this novel has themes and words that will challenge some folks. Like gritty novels do. One of the themes of the novel was that of redemption/forgiveness. About halfway into the story, a love interest is introduced and this gritty, dark, noir-thriller gets a clean romance subplot that I found intriguing--and I saw the parallel between the relationship being forced by the well-meaning Uncle Cliff and by the author convincing us Kevin was worthy of a woman who wasn't a selfish pig. We learn that the love interest (her name is September) has a muddy past, too, but can be forgiven. (We humans can reform.) There's even a scene in which she confesses and Kevin, almost thankful that she's not perfect, lets her know that her sketchy past is totally cool with him. She's forgiven and her arc is complete. I wish we could've seen Kevin's confession, whether it included repentance, how September reacted, and so on. I won't give away the ending, but the wrap-up wrapped up the crimes and coverups cleanly for the reader...but I think could have given more for the wrap-up of the secondary plot...that of forgiveness. Overall, great writing made me root for someone I didn't like. I could see, hear, and smell characters I didn't necessarily want to see, hear, or smell. I read this in one sitting--about three or four hours--because the pacing was perfect. And that's all coming from someone who reads about other worlds to avoid this one. Nicely done.

This review of “Rex Draconis: Lords of the Dragon Moon,” the second book in the “Rex Draconis” series by Richard A. Knaak, includes a spoiler at the 6-minute mark (from 6:00-6:59, specifically). Time stamps below to help with all that. Enjoy the drag racing #neighbors in the background, courtesy of my neighborhood. (You can follow the saga of my neighbors if you subscribe to my free newsletter at https://bit.ly/SSReNews. Just sayin.) Book Specs & BC 00:14 Overview & Character Discussion 1:15 Reading Sample 4:42 Spoiler 6:00-6:59 Power of Friendship & Outro 7:00 See the review & discussion of the first book in the series, “Rex Draconis: Under the Dragon Moon,” at this Rumble link https://rumble.com/v25pahu-january-15-2023.html (and see the map of Tiberos by Patrick Pullen in that review, too). The books of the “Rex Draconis” series are as follows: Under the Dragon Moon (2017) Lords of the Dragon Moon (2018) Shadows of the Dragon Moon (2019) Of Dragon’s Blood (2020) War of the Dragon Moon (2022) Gods of the Dragon Moon (to come) Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch Shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/ Thank you for subscribing to my "AuthorSandyLender" Rumble channel for book schtuff and positivity!

SPOILER ALERTS! In this review of "Damsel in Social Distance," I talk about the happily-ever-after ending and a bit about how it happens, so be aware that I share a lot about this sweet romance with its #empoweringwomen message woven within. I also mention the drag-racing neighbors on the street...just...it's a mashup of random. As you've come to expect from the Sandy Says Read channel! Some mild #metoo content, potential #triggers of emotional abuse. Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: https://www.SandyLenderInk.com

One legitimate question and some randomness for this evening. Pick up "My Faerie Valentine" in print or eBook https://amzn.to/3rWTFZ2 To check out my free short story titled “Nuts About Valentine’s Day,” visit this non-Amazon link: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/m8gxjpv1lo Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: https://www.SandyLenderInk.com HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Author Sandy Lender is a slave to the parrots. It's a fact. Today's positive blip of positivity invites you to share something positive, too! ;) https://www.SandyLenderInk.com

While the book on creativity from #johncleese may be short and cheerful, it took me about a year of interruptions to get this review ready for you all. Enjoy the logical brain at work... Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender: Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: https://www.SandyLenderInk.com You can also join me at the #imaginarium convention in July where creativity rules! https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/

Time stamps below... While it might feel like YA because of the baby dragon, it's not. Not at all. This is the "dragon on the balcony scene" from Choices Meant for Gods, the first book in the Choices trilogy, due "soon" from Seventh Star Press. (Not to be confused with the out-of-print, 2007 version from ArcheBooks, which closed its doors in 2019.) Intro stuff/playing with technology ends around 2:07 Reading begins: 2:07 Ending and dragons you've never heard of: 8:45 Blooper insanity: 10:27 Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: https://www.SandyLenderInk.com

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Richard A. Knaak was an Imaginator Guest at the 2021 Imaginarium Convention in Louisville. Our tables were stationed next to each other in the vendor hall, so I had the pleasure of visiting with him in between panels, workshops, and the many activities in which an Imaginator Guest participates. Before the convention ended, I snagged two books for him to sign and I have finally gotten to the review stage in time for Appreciate-A-Dragon Day. Rex Draconis: Under the Dragon Moon is the first in this series, published by Hydra Publications in 2017. You can find out more about Richard and the many, many titles he's written for the #Dragonlance, #WorldofWarcraft, #AgeofConan, and other series at his website http://www.richardallenknaak.com HAPPY APPRECIATE-A-DRAGON DAY! Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Merch shop: https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/

It's not a book review today...it's a call to action for DRAGONS. Appreciate-A-Dragon Day takes place Monday, January 16, and Author Sandy Lender fully encourages you to get in on the #fantasy and #adventure and #creativity of that. Find your inner flying reptile...and talk about it! Who is your favorite dragon in literature, film, or gaming? SHARE! Here's the newsletter Sandy mentions in the video to subscribe (for free) and read musings from dragon characters: https://bit.ly/SSReNews And here's Sandy's website: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ There's a page already built there for the "Dragons in Space" series where you can read up on those faboosh beasts. A page for #TeamMalachi is coming soon, so you might want to bookmark the site...

(Should I have included a trigger warning?) ;) Time stamps below. Tonight's review of Pete's Dragon The Lost Years includes a quick finch story first (because cuteness happens around here) and a kid-friendly dramatic reading of the taming-the-tail scene as our review excerpt. backyard finch update 0:45 sponsorship message 1:50 review starts 2:16 reading sample 8:26 Where to get #TeamMalachi (and other bookish merch): https://sandysaysread.myspreadshop.com/ Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: www.SandyLenderInk.com HAPPY APPRECIATE-A-DRAGON DAY!

Tonight's book review is of the #holidays #shortstories anthology/collection of 12 stories, edited by Stephanie Perkans. I tell you which one screamed "assault" to me and which one I liked best and which one reminded me of my wacky #neighbors. Ways to get more bookly with Sandy: Subscribe to my free newsletter https://bit.ly/SSReNews Join my Locals (it's like Patreon, but cheaper) community at https://sandysaysread.locals.com Visit my website at https://www.sandylenderink.com/ Follow my author page on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3NIPQAg Or check out all the places on my LinkTree https://linktr.ee/sandylender Have a safe & happy New Year! Make sure you're subscribed here & set up to be notified when the next book review or storytime drops. It's a joy to share all kinds of books and stories with everyone...especially when those books and stories are from authors who may be "new" or lesser known to the world. I SUPPORT INDIE CREATIVES!

Let's go to the mall! For your after-Christmas storytime enjoyment, here's a quick holiday-ish story from the past. #nostalgic #homefromcollege To follow Sandy around the web: Sign up for #SandySaysRead eNews https://bit.ly/SSReNews Follow Sandy Lender on Amazon https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Join my Locals community https://sandysaysread.locals.com Subscribe to my LinkTree https://linktr.ee/sandylender Have a safe & happy New Years!

For today's #Holiday content, we're mixing #Christmas with #InternationalPoetryMonth (yes, that's technically in April). You might remember my second poetry chapbook, "Poems of Fact, Form, and Fantasy," hit the shelves in September. It contained a few works appropriate for #theholidays. Here's one of those, to entertain and amuse you! Ways to get more bookly with Sandy: My newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews My website: https://ecs.page.link/wUHX4 My locals community: https://ecs.page.link/eDpfU Poems book link: https://ecs.page.link/3YucW MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I found it! The song I put on endless repeat for at least a day each #Christmas was hiding from me this year. And I couldn't think of its title...only some words of the chorus that weren't bringing results in search engines or lyric sites...until a mini #christmasmiracle brought me #peace and #joy. THE SONG: https://youtu.be/ONaNCZ5WXXA (There are a couple channels that have “Let Your Heart Be Light,” but that link is to the channel for @AndreaHamilton . I also recommend looking her up on Spotify.) Some ways to get more bookly with Sandy Lender… Reading Community: https://sandysaysread.locals.com Author Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews Author Page: https://amzn.to/3F2WKwO Actual Website: www.SandyLenderInk.com MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This wonderful book of "Letters from Father Christmas" exemplifies the spirit of #Christmas and gives the reader another reason to adore the creator of The Hobbit. Author Sandy Lender shares her delight with J.R.R. Tolkien's collection of letters to his children from 1920 to 1943. Ways to get more bookly with Sandy: www.SandyLenderInk.com https://bit.ly/SSReNews https://sandysaysread.locals.com https://mewe.com/join/sandysaysread MERRY CHRISTMAS!

For today's hit of positivity... I don't condone #Whamageddon but I do encourage you to share your favorite #christmascarols with me/all of us! Spread #joy and #fun and #positivity with #AuthorSandyLender and those of us #celebrating the #ChristmasSeason! Ways to get more bookly with Sandy: https://www.sandylenderink.com/ https://sandysaysread.locals.com https://bit.ly/SSReNews MERRY CHRISTMAS!