by Kelly Branyik | Sep 15, 2025 | Writing
Do you love listening to music when you write? The right playlist can completely change your writing session—it can calm distractions, steady your focus, or even set the mood for the story you’re trying to tell. But with so many options out there, how do you know...
by Kelly Branyik | Aug 29, 2025 | Musings
To those deeply maddened by the empty and meaningless thoughts and prayers people keep flinging at what happened in Minnesota (end every other state). Let me remind you of something before you go insane with fury… The ones who should care, and the ones who have...
by Kelly Branyik | May 31, 2024 | Book Reviews
Before I go off on a super rant about my genuinely unhealthy obsession for House of Earth and Blood, which may result in continuous salivation, I just want to say… This is the very first Sarah J Maas book I’ve read so I have no idea what her other books...
by Kelly Branyik | May 24, 2024 | Writing
Unpublish a book? But you worked so hard on it! That’s the voice that pounds in my head each time I look at this beautiful book I wrote. I published my first novel in December 2021 with high hopes that it would be a success. And it aches me to let it go. So why...
by Kelly Branyik | May 22, 2024 | Book Reviews
When I was staying at my parent’s house recently, I came into the spare bedroom to find my mother had left a book on my bed for me to read. It was definitely an old book, and the dust cover was a little tattered. I remembered my mother asked me about this book a...
