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Today on Fable and the Verbivore, we’re sharing our latest book reads conversation — this is part 2 of 2 featuring Fable’s stories!

Over the last few months instead of doing our typical bookclub episodes, we’ve started talking about some of the things we’ve recently read and enjoyed, connected with, or learned from. It’s been a great way to share what we’re consuming and loving lately and finding new recommendations.

In this episode, Fable talks about her new second favorite writing craft book; a sweet monster romance with a cinnamon roll male lead who is recovering from a previous toxic relationship; a dark, high stakes fantasy romance with great tension and pacing and that’s first in a series where the author decided to have the plots of all three books happen at the same time; and a promising author whose in progress first book Fable fell in love with during her beta read and is currently obsessed with.

We also talk a lot about these stories from a craft perspective and what the authors did that we found interesting. Things like:

• Wired for Story - From a neuroscience perspective, this book unpacks how effective storytelling strategies tend to work in our brains and why.

• Tiger by the Tail - Turning the gender stereotype script and having a male character need to grapple with an abusive relationship and the new love interest help support him, Well-developed neurodiverse characters

• Her Soul to Take - A dark fantasy romance with believably high stakes, great drive to the story, and character motivation; Studying how the author went about plotting three stories to interweave into each other and occur simultaneously

We hope you enjoy this episode! Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

In this episode, Fable references a debut book that she just recently read for Rhiannon Rollness and is currently obsessed with even in its beta form. You can find information on this book on her instagram account @rhirhi_readsnwrites.

Books and Films Mentioned:

• Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron

• Tiger by the Tail: A Creatures & Coding Novel by Rhea Fox

• Her Soul to Take: A Paranormal Dark Academia Romance by Harley Leroux

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‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)