Kris’s Five Star Pick’s

Dragon Pearl Yoon Ha Lee

Great and Precious Things Rebecca Yarros

The Serpent and the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent

Songbird and the Heart of Stone Carissa Broadbent

Shared Hearts Lee Jackman

Katherine’s Five Star Pick’s

Story of my Life Lucy Score

Mr. Swoony Piper Rayne

Memories by the Shore MJ Huxley

The Wolf King Lauren Salisbury

Single Mom’s Guide to Love Chelle Sloan

Writing apps and platforms:

Google Docs

Scrivner

Dungeons and Dragons

Word

How to ADHD YouTube channel-Five Game Changing Productivity apps for ADHD

Ayoa

XTiles

Fiverr

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Welcome back to our world building series! Today our focus is on cultures and societies! Below you’ll find our picks we discussed during the podcast. If you can please subscribe, like, comment, or review our podcast we would greatly appreciate your support!

Kris’s Pick

Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Fable by Adrianne Young

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

Katherine’s Pick:

Bride by Initiation Maggie Cole

Aspect of Essence by Samantha Amstutz

The Hades and Persephone series by Scarlet St. Clair

Ordering Chaos by Alexis Menard

Welcome back to Dragons and Drafts! Today is part 3 of our World building series! And today we are focusing on history and lore in writing. Please be sure to like and subscribe! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider leaving a review below to help others discover our content.

Kris’s Picks:

The Poppy War by R.F. Quang

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

Five Kingdoms by Brandon Mull

Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Katherine’s Picks:

The Vandeleur by Fleur DeVillainy

Secrets of Jane by Charlotte Malory

Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

Sleeping with the Enemy by Hal Vaughan

Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The University of Isles series and Between Dusk and Dawn by Vee Taylor

The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley

Welcome back to Dragons and Drafts! We are Katherine and Kris and we are so excited to have you join us today! Today is part 2 in a mini podcast series on all things World Building! Our focus for today is to discuss Magic systems and Politics in stories.

Kris’s Picks

The Name of the Wild by Patrick Rothfuss

Dune by Frank Herbert

Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole

Katherine’s Picks

Powerless Trilogy by Lauren Roberts

Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Daughter of No Worlds (entire series is masterfully crafted and beautifully written world building)

Episode 6 World Building Series part 1

this episode with be the first in a mini series of podcasts where we talk about all the aspects of world building in stories.

Katherine’s Picks

Haley Jade- Dark Reflections Series

Lianne Kay- A Reflection of Silver and Crimson

Carissa Broadbent- Daughter of No Worlds

Kris’s Picks

Tolkien Lord Of The Rings

Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere universe Mistborn

Penn Cole- Spark of the Everflame

Writing Portion

Science fiction and Fantasy association

https://www.sfwa.org

Welcome back to Dragons and Drafts! Today we are so excited to share with you some amazing stories that feature either disabilities or mental health. We love it when writers are inclusive and we love to shine a light on their stories in the hopes that it inspires you in your reading or writing journeys to see a different perspective or to feel seen! If you are experiencing a mental health crisis please reach out to your healthcare provider or someone close to you. Know that you are not alone and you matter in this world!

Kris’s picks

Galaxy walkers Kris Paulsen

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

A Curse so dark and lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

Dragon School by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Turtles all the Way Down John Green

Fall in Our Stars John Green

Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Katherine picks

PTSD/depression/anxiety

Crazy Good by Rachel Robinson

Depression/ mental illness

Run to Me by JB LaRee

Deaf MMC

In Our Hands by Larissa Moyer

Depression

Hockey Boy Brittanee Nicole

Autistic

Thief Who Stole Christmas Angela Casella

Depression/ suicide

Into the Darkness Vee Taylor

Sign language

Osparia Series by Lashell Rain

PTSD depression guilt of a death of a loved one/ addiction of alcohol

Bearing the Burden by Jillian D. Wray

Germaphobic

The Freak Out by Jenni Bara

Physical dysmorphia/ PTSD/ Touch adverse

The One She Loves by Anna Hackett

Writing Portion

Recommendations for websites

Fiverr.com

Writingdiversity.com

Inclusiveminds.com

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Welcome back to Dragons and Drafts today we are doing an introduction to the different types of publishing! We are also going to be discussing our individual writing process with you! Let’s dive in!

See the books and authors we mentioned below.

Kris’s Book Choices:

Traditional published authors

Brandon Sanderson Mistborn

James Clear Atomic Habits

Hannah Nicole Maehrer Assistant to the Villian

N.K. Jemisin The Fifth Season

Rachel Gillig One Dark Window

Indie Authors

Nova McBee Calculated

Kristin Cashore Graceling

Rebecca J Carlson Barley and Rye

Harlow James Everything He Couldn’t

Katherine’s Book Choices:

Lauren Roberts The Powerless Series

Rebecca Yarros- Fourth Wing and her military romances

Rebecca Ross- Divine Rivals duet

Hybrid Authors

Jennifer L Armentrout From Blood and Ash

Elle Kennedy The Summer Girl

Indie Authors

Beka Westrup The Seldom Wings

LB August In The Shadows

Jillian D Wray Beautiful Deceit series

J.M. Failde The Crow Lord and The Sun Child

Brooklyn Cross The Kings of Wayward Academy series

Alexandra Hale Clementine Creek series

Dakotah Fox Seattle Hawks

Mackenzy Fox Nola Rebels MC

Harlow James Sometimes you Fall

Welcome back to Dragons and Drafts! Today we are discussing books that hook! And how we use our opening and ending sentences to pull you further into our stories.

Kris’s Picks:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Charlotte’s Web E. B. White

Kris had a great book in her writing craft books called Hooked by Les Edgerton

Katherine’s Picks:

Ruthless Heir by Faith Summers

The Love Fixers by Angela Casella

Grave Secrets by Cassandra Aston

Hello and welcome back to Dragons and Drafts with Katherine and Kris! We are so excited to have you join us today!

Here is the list of our book recommendations from the episode

Kris’s Picks

Enemies to lovers

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Six of Crowns by Leigh Bardugo

Forced Proximity

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Fake Dating

Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Retelling of a story

Cinderella retelling

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Disability Trope

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Katherine’s Picks

Enemies to Lovers

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Run to me by JB LaRee

Marriage of Convenience/ Enemies to lovers

A Temporary Forever by Maxine Henri

Forced Proximity

Serpent and The Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

The path to Loving Him by Mehgan Quinn

Fake Dating/ Fake Marriage

Mother Faker by Brittanee Nicole

Retelling of a Story

Cinderella

My Dark Desire by LJ Shen & Parker S. Huntington

Disability trope

The Foul Out by Jenni Bara

Second Chance

Embers in Our Past by Stephanie Castro

Brother’s Best Friend

The Fake Out by Jenni Bara

Mr. Broody by Piper Rayne

Surprise Pregnancy

Sometimes You Fall by Harlow James

Everything But You by Harlow James

Writing Segment

The different types of writers

Pantser

Planner/Plotter

Discovery

Plantser

Hello, we are so excited that you are here! We want to thank you for checking out our podcast. Here is an introduction where you get to meet and get a little background about us!

For the books recommended in the episode, see below.

Kris's Dragon Book recommendations:

1. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

2. The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

3. Dragon's Kiss by E. A. Winters

4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini

You can find more book reviews and recommendations on Kris's Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/bookishladynight?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Katherine's Dragon Book Recommendations

1. The Forbidden Heir Trilogy by Emilia Jae

2. The Empyrean Series- Fourth Wing is book 1 by Rebecca Yarros

3. Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

4. The Hidden Realm by Heather Renee

You can find more book reviews and recommendations on Katherine's Instagram page:

⁠https://www.instagram.com/bookishladynight?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr⁠

Join us each Thursday for a new episode!!!