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  • New Substacks Created

    I recently created a substack for myself, as well as a substack for Fox Fairy Font. What about this website? For a while now, I’ve been using this website as a way to increase my personal brand, and I think I’m going to do that. I think what I’m going to do, is use this…

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  • Black Ink Ocean

    Hi Voidfriends and Voidfolk! For the last three months I’ve been working on a new lit mag. I joined the team at Black Ink Ocean. We are a literary magazine dedicated to the Southern Gothic and our first issue is out TODAY. It is called Bite-Sized, and its a Mini-Issue (I.e. 1/2 or 1/3 the…

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  • July Updates

    Hi Void Friends and Void Folk! It’s been a while since I have blogged. I think that in the whirlwind of the year, a lot of stuff has happened to me, and in my life and I just… disappeared? Let’s start with the good news. I have officially been given the title of Managing Editor…

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  • Hello Voidfriends and Voidfolk! Let’s talk about my publishing company! Fox Fairy Font is the publishing company that I created in 2024, although have not gone out of my way to promote until this year. foxfairyfont.com Logo created by: Savannah Drews That’s cool and all Marlena, but why did you decide to name it Fox…

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  • Hello All

    Hello! Hello! Voidfriends and Voidfolk. Am I back? Yes. It’s been a while. That’s to say the least. The last time I really talked to you, feels like it was as I was leaving Scotland. I’m back in the US now. I have a new job (along with my old ones). Things are about to…

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  • Update 12/13/2022

    Hello Void Friends and Voidfolk, Yeah, sorry that this year has been ROUGH. I can’t say I’m going to get back to writing book reviews. I will, hopefully, continue to collect quotes. I might do that as a thing instead. Also, I hope to get back into giving you my “what did I read” posts.…

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  • Top Ten Reads of 2021

    Considering that I did not read as many books (i.e. hundred+) as I usually do, I’m surprised that I feel as strongly about some of these as I do. I feel STRONG feelings towards some of these. Like last year, I’ll explain why I picked them as I go.

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  • Top Ten Quotes of 2021

    Alright! This is the moment you’ve been waiting for! My top 10 quotes from 2021! I did not read enough books, or collect enough quotes, this year to warrant a top 5 quotes. All the same I love these. Surprisingly there were at least 20 quotes that fought for these spots. I probably could have…

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  • Hello From Scotland

    Goodday Voidfriends and Voidfolk, As I have been hinting for the last couple of months, things have been hectic on my end. This means a bunch of changes for my blog going forward. Mainly, no book reviews, or at most one a month. I did get a backlog of reviews, but not enough for one…

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  • Top Ten Reads of 2020

    I wanted to do this list for a long time and honestly this was a fight to the death for me to decide which book got number one. I will explain the best I can for each book. Let’s go! Also, I decided that this will go ahead and include some other media that I…

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