Tag: Reading

• 2025 Award Eligibility

  It’s the time of the year where we (writers) let people know about our work eligible for award nominations, and here I am doing it for the first time in my writing career. Below is my work eligible for all the various SFFH awards such as Stokers, Locus, Ignyte, Hugos, Nebulas, etc., in case you…

  Millie Abecassis

  November 27, 2025

  A Legacy of Blood and Bones, Bright City, Shattered, Daughters of the Blue Moon

  author, award eligibility, book awards, books, fantasy, horror, indie press, publishing, Reading, science-fiction, writing community

• Read Avni Patel’s review of A Legacy of Blood and Bone

  Huge thanks to Avni from Grimoire Ink Reviews for reading my novel and writing such a great review. Check it out now!

  Millie Abecassis

  November 10, 2025

  A Legacy of Blood and Bones

  Book Recommendations, book review, books, fantasy, gothic fantasy, gothic fiction, historical fantasy, Reading, review, sapphic books, sapphic fantasy

• Half-year check-in (or surviving debut year)

  2025 has been a crazy year so far. Great, but crazy considering the number of releases, deals, edits, and events happening. I keep telling myself I will slow down the pace in 2026, but knowing myself, it will probably be the same. I guess I’ll sleep when I’m dead, right? #SmallPitch is stronger than ever…

  Millie Abecassis

  July 23, 2025

  #SmallPitch, A Legacy of Blood and Bones, Book Recommendations, Bright City, Shattered, Daughters of the Blue Moon, Moon Dust, The Color of Time, The Seventh Sister, Writing Journey

  #SmallPitch, author, books, debut author, fairytale retelling, fantasy, fantasy books, historical fantasy, horror, horror books, indie press, literary agents, novel, novella, publishing, Reading, sci-fi, sci-fi books, science fantasy, science fiction, writer, writer life, writing, writing community, writing convention, Writing Journey

• My favorite reads of 2024

  In 2024, I read over 70 books, about half of those being novelettes or novellas—so it’s not as impressive at it sounds. I also DNFed a lot more books than past year (about 15), which I’m happy with as I have a giant to-read pile and too little time for books I don’t enjoy. As…

  Millie Abecassis

  December 29, 2024

  Book Recommendations

  books, fantasy, fantasy books, favorite books of 2024, horror, horror books, indie press, Reading, reading recommendations, sci-fi, sci-fi books, science-fiction, science-fiction books, writing

• A novel, a pitch event, and a book award walk into a bar

  Though I don’t have any bar joke to tell (sorry for setting false expectations), I do have a lot to share about what I accomplished so far in 2024 (besides signing two book deals) (yeah, I’ve been busy). I wrote a novel First, I’m happy to share that I wrote a new book, and this…

  Millie Abecassis

  October 21, 2024

  #SmallPitch, A Legacy of Blood and Bones, SSBA

  #SmallPitch, author, book awards, books, fantasy, indie press, novel, pitch event, publishing, Reading, sci-fi books, science fantasy, science-fiction, Small Spec Book Awards, SmallPitch, speculative fiction, SSBA, writing, writing community

• My favorite reads of 2023

  It’s this time of year again where we all eat way too much food and, for avid readers, share our favorite reads of the year. As of today, I have read 72 books, including novels, novellas, short stories, and DNFs. Talking about DNFing books, I used to always push through a book, refusing to DNF.…

  Millie Abecassis

  December 19, 2023

  Book Recommendations

  Book Recommendations, book-review, books, fantasy, Reading, science-fiction

• My favorite reads of 2022

  As the year is coming to an end, I’d like to share my favorite reads of 2022. Not all the books listed below have been published in 2022. Before talking about my favorite books read this year, let’s see a quick recap of how many books I read: As of today, I read 56 books…

  Millie Abecassis

  December 30, 2022

  Book Recommendations

  Book Recommendations, book-review, books, fantasy, Reading, science-fiction