Julia Vanishes by Catherine Egan

Julia Vanishes by Catherine Egan
Genre: Fantasy, YA
4 stars.

The title of this book is unusual. It reads more like the heading of a tabloid article about a celebrity disappearance than a book title, which is unfortunate as this book is neither tabloid nor about a celebrity disappearance. It is so much better than that, weaving elements of Victorian mystery with folklore and myth in a well-developed, ever-expanding world where witches born with the ability to write magic into being are drowned, strange, possibly-wolfmen are locked in basements, but regular girls like Julia should not be able to vanish.

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The Ten-Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Genre: Historical Fantasy
3 stars

I love historical fantasy. Particularly Regency/Victorian/Edwardian era fantasy. Give me magic and wizards and worlds colliding with our own and you don’t need to ask me twice to read. When I first stumbled upon Alix E. Harrow’s AMA on Reddit, I was so excited that I immediately ordered her book. The cover is gorgeous, the title intriguing, and historians are often fantastic novelists because the two mediums are so intertwined.

Songbird Editing

Hello lovely readers! I’m finally at a point in this project where I can make this announcement!

I have started a freelance editing business! It’s called Songbird Editing, which is a play on my new last name (I got married in July to my wonderful husband Mike) and I also just think it’s adorable.

Editing is something I have wanted to get in to for a long time, but never found the appropriate avenue. Right out of college it seemed an impossible industry to break into, so I taught English in China for a few years, before settling back in Michigan working administrative jobs. While I have learned a lot about the corporate world (and how to run a business), assistant-ing is not my passion. But writing, reading, and storytelling has always been.

I am a natural born critic (when I was 12 I would critique the rom-coms my friends and I watched, much to their chagrin) so it was simple to create a book blog because I was already doing that for fun. I also have a BA in English Literature, was an editor for multiple literary magazines, worked for my campus’s writing center, and have done my fair share of beta reading for published authors. This seemed the next appropriate step.

I am so thankful to have had a few clients now (while still working full time) and I have never been so excited for work as when I am editing!

Thank you all for coming on this journey with me and don’t hesitate to let me know if you or a friend needs copyediting, proofreading, or content editing done for a novel, article, blog, or anything else word related.

I created a tab on this blog dedicated to all things Songbird Editing related. You can also check out and like my Facebook page too!