Why Reading Is The Best Kind of Self-Care If you are a regular reader, especially of fiction, did you know it’s one of the best things you can do for yourself?Actual studies, such as this one conducted by the National Library of Medicine, have concluded there are many benefits to reading besides mere entertainment Still, a stigma remains as reading is considered to be a passive activity. Non-readers often dismiss reading as a useless or lazy hobby, or say that reading is too solitary of a pastime.(And they can kiss our collective bookworm butts!)But seriously, I’ve been a lifelong reader and never stopped to think about how good reading is for me, beyond the pleasure I ...

Is The Ebook Market Oversaturated? My Hot Take- the Ebook market has matured and is fast approaching over-saturation, and the proliferation Free Books (both legit and pirated) are escalating this outcome. The Build UpHow did we get here?There has long been a debate over authors offering free Ebooks. Those opposed to it (including myself, at one time) maintain:Free or low cost prices devalue the bookIt trains readers to expect free stuffIt attracts freebie-seekersThe book may sit on an e-reader TBR for a long time before being read, if everThese are valid points. It took me a long time to wrap my head around offering free Ebooks, but I had been hearing that it worked well for other ...

Bookish Retreats and Getaways For Book Lovers Hear me out—a Girls Getaway Weekend, but make it bookish!There are so many options available for all budgets and timeframes. Get away with your besties and enjoy what you love together. If this sounds like your idea of a good time, I have some suggestions for you!Retreats are TreatsI just spent such a 3-day weekend with two of my friends. We do this twice a year, and we so look forward to it. We rented a home in our city with a pool and chilled out together. We read, we talked, we ate, we swam. We went to a tearoom nearby for lunch one of the days. We binge watched the last season of Bridgerton. We reconnected, and it was top tier. We ...

FOR THE RECORD: ALL my books, both published and unpublished, under my two pen names (Renee Regent and Leslie Crowne) were written by ME.Only me!My brain devised the premise, plot, and details.My heart created the characters—their personalities, their emotions, their growth arcs.My soul revealed the themes, the underlying messages of the stories. Authentic As F*ckEvery laugh, every tear. The violence, the tenderness, the sadness, the orgasms (yes, I said it!), all came from my life experience, or my imagination. Some of it was difficult to get on the page, some of it was easy, but every word is ultimately my responsibility, my creation.I worked with honest human beta readers, ...