Medium: Video games, novels, and short stories For the past few months, I've had to label individual newspapers at work so that they would get to where they need to go. This is one of the more chill parts of my job, and while I'm going it, I like to put my headset on and listen to an audiobook. It makes it so that I won't get interrupted, or at least it's supposed.

Genre: Fantasy romance Originally published in 2025 Page Count: 389 pages Six is a Diviner in the great Aisling Cathedral. Her job is a hard one. She was a foundling child who was brought in almost ten years ago by the abbess who told her she was special, and this was a job that only she could do. Every day she, along with the other five Diviners who are also only known as numbers, needs to taste blood, be temporarily drowned, and then dream of the six Omens to help guide the people of the Stonewater Kingdom.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Originally published in 2024 Page Count: 290 pages Within the valley there is a town at the side of a lake. The town is surrounded by a fence on all sides, but this is for the protection of those who live there. If you travel east of this town, you will find yourself in an identical valley with an almost identical town down to its occupants.

Genre: Thriller Originally published in 2025 Page Count: 356 pages Blake Porter is living his best life. He is a VP of marketing as big company, a job which allowed him to buy an expensive brownstone house. He shares it with his fiancée Krista who is beautiful, supportive, and is the love of his life. They don’t have the date set for their wedding, but with his job they don’t have to worry about much.

Genre: Mystery thriller Originally published in 2023 Page Count: 313 pages Rowan Wolff was rescued after she was kidnapped along with her brother when she was five years old. Their babysitter who had been with them at the time of the kidnapping turned up as a part of a string of serial killings. The man who had held her captive for those few weeks was arrested and charged for multiple murders.

Over the summer I put a pretty big dent in my gaming backlog. At the start of the season it had about 365 games in it. Now that it's the start of September and I'm writing this it's now down to 319 games. While yes, I have finished several games and was able to remove them from the list after having experienced their credits, I don't think that's the main reason why my backlog shrank so much within the span of a few months.

Genre: Science Fiction Originally published in 2022 Page Count: 288 After the death of his daughter, Dr. Cliff Miyashiro travels to the same facility that she had been working in. This brings him all the way to Siberia where a strange neanderthal woman was found within what can be described as a crater. He’s there to study her and then he will go back home and be with his wife and granddaughter.

For this past week I was working on characters. The main character I worked on was my protagonist and the relationships she has from the start of the novel. I wanted to think about how I wanted to start this novel first, while also thinking about events that should take place a lot closer to the end. My main plan was to get an idea of how the first part of the story will go up until she meets the ghost and her adventure begins.

So if you've followed my blog for a while you would know that I have a history of participating in National Novel Writing Month. Unfortunately it shut down earlier this year. There were a ton of similar events and programs that started last year because of multiple mistakes on NaNoWriMo's part, and I was thinking that I would try one of these ones.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction Originally published in 2022 Page Count: 277 Dot Grey is a girl in 1997 who has a whole future ahead of her. She dreams of being able to help animals and is currently working at an animal shelter. She lives in a small rental apartment in the basement of her landlord and there she keeps her small menagerie of animals which include a lizard, and a rat.

Genre: Historical Fiction Originally published in 2014 Page Count: 376 pages Aganetha Smart was a normal girl who lived in a rural Ontario town and was born around 1910. She however had a quirk. She was really good at running and though people looked at her funny as a girl who ran, she kept doing it. Eventually after moving to the city she ends up on a path to join the Canadian Olympic team of 1928 as an 800m runner.

Genre: Thriller Originally published in 2020 Page Count: 352 pages Shay Miller has found that her life in New York City is far from easy. She wants to find love, but it is something that feels like something she can never have. She is finding it really hard to get a good job that isn’t a dead end. She lives with her roommate who is her only friend in the city, but he is in a relationship now and she knows that its only a matter of time before he won’t be her roommate anymore.

Genre: Point and click mysteryOriginally published 2006-2014Five games Rosangela Blackwell lives a quiet life in New York. She doesn’t talk much with her neighbours. She earns a living by writing book reviews among other articles for a small newspaper called the Village Eye. She always makes sure to visit her practically comatose aunt at the psychiatric hospital whenever she can.

Genre: Fantasy romance Originally published in 2024 Page Count: 373 pages Kenna became eligible for the Collection five years ago. During this event four mortals over the age of eighteen in every town are collected and brought to Hell. In Hell the four courts each get to claim one. There is the Court of Blood, which is full of vampires, the Court of Moon with werewolves, the Court of Song which is located in a lake, and everyone is a siren, and then there is the Court of Spell where the witches and warlocks live.

I have been working on decreasing my gaming backlog for a while now just like with my to be read list. Lately I decided to enter it all into a website meant for tracking this gaming backlogs. Even though I still have a few more games to enter I was shocked to see that I had enough games in my list that I could beat one each day for a year and only just finish playing all of these games.

Genre: Fantasy romance Originally published in 2024 Page Count: 406 pages Several years ago Rune was forced to sacrifice her grandmother. Because of this she survived the witch purge which came after a successful revolution. Over night witches who had once ruled society were turned into outcasts. Witch hunters look for the scars they bear from the drawing of blood for their spells.

Today I’m writing about one of my favourite series because I think it should get at least a little more recognition. It is AI: The Somnium Files and it is a murder mystery adventure game published by Spike Chunsoft and is both directed and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi who is also known for the Zero Escape Series. This series has two games.

Genre: Thriller Originally published in 2021 Page Count: 372 Felicity Morrow is back again to complete her senior year at Dalloway School. The year before she had gotten through the first semester before she had to take the rest of the year off due to tragedy. Her girlfriend Alex died during a tragic accident and it has taken several months plus the help of a psychiatrist to help her move through things.

I decided recently that I should start a new series of posts based around things that make me happy. This is only just partially because I’m writing a multipart essay thing about a game series that I really enjoy. I also feel that as a writer I should focus on a lot more positive things when the world around me feels so incredibly negative.

Genre: Mystery Originally published in 2021 Page Count: 308 Lila Macapagal moved back home to Shady Palms for two main reasons. The first was that while she was off at college in Chicago, she had a bad breakup with her boyfriend. The second reason is that she was told about how her Tita Rosie’s restaurant was failing, and she wanted to help out.

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post like this, I had kind of fallen off of it and with the A to Z Challenge and other things I wasn’t writing as many regular posts. I even fell off the top ten Tuesday posts, though I’m planning on continuing with those. I do like having a regular blogging schedule, but at times it can be a bit much.

Genre: Thriller Originally published in 2025 Page Count: 376 pages Tegan is eight months pregnant and working paycheque to paycheque at a grocery store. The thing is that she knows that soon she will have the money needed to give her child a comfortable life. She has been working with the lawyer of her baby’s father, Jackson, to write up a contract that once signed will give her all this money.

This has been the story about how I came to live in Zenith Bay through the various places that I visited on my first journey. This is a place that I have come to love. Nearly every part of the city has been affected in some way by the power of the meteorite. When a new place is built it usually isn’t too long before it’s influenced and for the places that never change because of the meteorite, the people there come up with their own rules to make it different.