Author Archives: Feliza

New review at Girls in Capes: Tohyo Game, Vol. 1

My first review of 2017 is live now at Girls in Capes! Tohyo Game (literally “Voting Game”) is a horror story in the vein of King’s Game: Origin and Another set among second-year high school students (equivalent to American high school juniors) in contemporary Japan. In one class, students vote for other students’ popularity — and the onesContinue reading “New review at Girls in Capes: Tohyo Game, Vol. 1”

Micro-Review: CHILDREN OF ICARUS by Caighlan Smith

I probably shouldn’t have expected much from a book that drew cover comparisons to The Hunger Games (which I hated) and The Maze Runner (which looks boring to me). The narrator of the book somehow managed to weave a web of lies and deceit, despite making no active decisions until the second half of theContinue reading “Micro-Review: CHILDREN OF ICARUS by Caighlan Smith”

NaNoWriMo 2016: Writing Playlist

If there’s one single thing I’ve learned over the course of the past several years participating in NaNoWriMo, it’s that a writing playlist is absolutely essential. I write best to a soundtrack, and over the past couple of years that we’ve been brainstorming, my writing partner and I have come up with soundtracks for eachContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2016: Writing Playlist”

NaNoWriMo 2016: Day 7 Complete!

Create Your Own Visited States Map — Day 7 of NaNoWriMo is complete! Final word count: 15,334. Emi and I are still pretty far ahead of our goals, even though we barely wrote today — the Day 7 goal is 11,667 words. I finally hit the point where I’ve started struggling, although I think itContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2016: Day 7 Complete!”