Emily Rachelle Writes

Bella is a newborn vampire.

Hello, my lovely readers! So, in a fateful twist of events, I am writing this post two weeks after its intended publication date from a conference room in an apartment building in Nebraska. How's that for unexpected? But let us proceed. We're almost done with the series! Just a note: this series, while marketed in and popular with the YA market, was originally intended for twenty-to-thirty-something married women with kids (according to Stephenie, the author). And even if the first three books are considered pretty acceptable and fitting for the majority of YA readers, this book is definitely a grown-up book. Marriage, kids, family drama -- the works.

Somewhat snarky opinions and completely unobjective reviews of the Twilight Saga: Part Two. [Note I forgot to mention in Part One: there will probably be slithering spoilers.] [Note from me: meant to post this yesterday, oops. Sorry.] Here we go! Because this doesn't really go with any one book/movie but New Moon starts with Bella's birthday, I feel like it fits here: Edward is technically 108 in Twilight , 109 in the rest of the series. But physically, he's seventeen. Meanwhile, Bella is seventeen in Twilight , eighteen in the others. I felt like the look of Edward/Rob in the movies seemed a little off. I did my googling: Kristen's barely older than her character, while Rob is twenty-one at the start of the series. Because I'm a book purist and want to make a point, I just want everyone to see the pair at actual seventeen years of age: Another photo of seventeen-year-old Rob: Okay, point made. Moving on!

Hello, my lovely readers! The long-awaited day is here. It is finally time to share the somewhat snarky opinions and completely unobjective reviews of the Twilight Sage from a former Twilight Hater. Let's do this. Okay, so, we start off with this book that is proclaimed by one side of the literary community as the worst thing to happen to human intelligence since television and the other side as the greatest love story -- not of the decade, or the century, or even the millenium, but of all time ever . Either way, that's a lot for a book to live up to. Full disclosure: I kinda hated this book.

Summer of Books: Week 2.5

Summer of Books: Week 2 (ish) I've been on vacation visiting family in Indiana the past two weeks, so I know I haven't been the best at keeping up with the updates. I also am posting this week's special review two days late. But! Better late than never! Things should get more regular now that I'm home.

Summer of Books: Week 0.5 Let's do this thing!

Hello, my lovely readers! Today I have a bit of housekeeping followed by a marvelous bit of news to share with you all. First of all: I've officially given up on The College Chronicles. I don't know the first thing about shooting or editing videos, I'm a perfectionist never happy with my own work, and even I'm bored by my own footage of average college life. In other words, I'm just not cut out for vlogging. I'll leave that to the YouTube stars from now on. Now, on to the really big news! Drumroll, please! I am releasing...  a new book... of poetry! It's called Rain In December. It comes out March 31. You can tune in next week to see the beautiful shiny cover! Until then, my lovely readers!

I've got a beef with the book world today. I love books. Paperbacks, ebooks, hardcovers, audiobooks, the works. My room is overrun with books and my Kindle archive reaches beyond 600 books. I love books, no matter the format. The internet, though, can be brutal. And lately I'm fed up with the brutal war against e-readers. (Yes, I'm playing with political terms. Please don't take this too seriously.) It started with Pinterest, so that's where I'll start. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/121808364897467846/ Because a "real book" can fit in my suitcase when I fly home and back for school breaks, can slide into my purse without giving me scoliosis, can look up an unknown word with the push of a button. No, only a digital book can do those things. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/517702919636402460/ Wait, you mean the glitter and Photoshop or the dust that gives me an allergy attack? http://www.pinterest.com/pin/12180836...

Hello lovely readers! Happy 2015! I've given up on apologizing for disappearing for weeks at a time, because the fact that I'm even still blogging during college is an accomplishment in itself. So! Let's just jump into today's topic, yes? Self-publishing: the numbers! When you discuss writing and publishing with the general public, there's a lot of strange ideas floating out there. You've got people who think every semi-successful writer is living off the paycheck of J.K. Rowling or Nicholas Sparks. You've got people who think writing isn't a real job, no matter how much time and work and initial investment you pour into your work. And then you've got people like a guy I heard about recently who is retiring his job this January to become a writer. He plans to marry his girlfriend, buy a house, and start a family on his writing income... and so far he's got exactly one chapter and a nightmare of a plot mess to go off. C...

The past near-month of internet silence in GIFs, because I hardly use them but actually really love them: School. Stress. Work. Exhaustion. Graduation (My Parents). Graduation (My Friends). Graduation (My Church). Graduation (Me). More School. Oh yeah, don't forget a lot of The Fault In Our Stars movie-hype YouTube videos. Aaaand... more school. I decided not to go on that missions trip... ...so I just opened an Etsy shop for my necklaces. Then I had one week left to finish one Literature test, two Chemistry tests, several Chemistry assignments, two Literature essays, and a Grand Research Paper. I could do this. Totally. Except then the Friday night before the bus left on Monday morning, Mom said the church had a camp scholarship for me and I should totally go I mean we can work out your job and get all that junk done right totally we can. The reac...