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• Reading Adult Fantasy to Bolster My Fantasy Manuscript

  In my stunted attempts to re-engage with my fantasy manuscript and turn it into a dark adult fantasy manuscript, I found myself really struggling to connect with the words I wanted to write. It wasn’t quite writer’s block, but definitely adjacent, given my general creative burnout and difficulty picking up a book. After a lovely…

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  April 5, 2026

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• Jumping into Robert Jackson Bennett’s High Fantasy Novel Foundryside

  We all know I love the Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett, and I managed to find this fantasy series of his written before The Tainted Cup, so I bought the paperbacks and have had them sitting pretty on my bookshelf, awaiting their turn to be read. The time has come, and…

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  January 7, 2026

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• Finishing Off My Physical TBR

  2025 is nearing a close, and I have a few series on my shelves that I need to read to clear my physical TBR pile for the year. I have a policy where I aim to read all the physical books on my shelves within the year I buy them, and this practice has had…

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  November 15, 2025

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• More High Fantasy Mystery in A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

  I have been itching to read A Drop of Corruption since I got it on my shelf but diligently waited until this moment of post-PhD chaos to start. What a spectacular, immersive, and thoroughly entertaining fantasy mystery this is! Now I definitely know I will be snooping around Robert Jackson Bennett’s works to get more…

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  May 14, 2025

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• Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup is Unique, Intriguing, and Wholly Immersive

  If you tell me a book is set in a high-fantasy world, has deep political layers and rich ye grim details, and is a crime fiction where the characters resemble Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, I’m going to ask you to hand it over. Now. Please. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is that…

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  April 10, 2025

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