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Sherwood Smith

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I am a writer,( Patreon here) but I'm on Goodreads to talk about books, as I've been a passionate reader as long as I've been a writer--since early childhood.

I'm not going to rate books--there are too many variables. I'd rather talk about the reading experience. My 'reviews' of my books are confined to the writing process.

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Sherwood Smith Coming up in two days is STRANGER, co-written with Rachel Manija Brown, a YA dystopia that is pretty different from the other dystopias out there. (We…moreComing up in two days is STRANGER, co-written with Rachel Manija Brown, a YA dystopia that is pretty different from the other dystopias out there. (We are busy at work on the three others in the series.)

In July, A SWORD NAMED TRUTH, from DAW, more in the Sartorias-deles world. It's the "other half" of A STRANGER TO COMMAND.

Working on that, its sequel, and also on LHIND THE SPY, which I'd like to release in March or so.

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Sherwood Smith Yes! I have been working intermittently on Slaymate (Ruli's story, which takes place in the interim of Revenant Eve) and also, the adventures that Kim…moreYes! I have been working intermittently on Slaymate (Ruli's story, which takes place in the interim of Revenant Eve) and also, the adventures that Kim and Alec get into as a married couple. Thank you for asking!(less)
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I’ve been an ardent fan of works by Francesca Forrest ever since she published Pen Pal , a standout novel with a brush of magical realism set in contemporary times. That novel is built around letters between a little girl living precariously in a houseboat off the Gulf Coast and a political prisoner suspended above a volcano in a Southeast Asian country. Pen Pal was my favorite book of 2013.

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It was very hard to get into this book because the narrator was so frenzied, the voice trying so hard to be clever it made me tired and anxious--not what I was looking for in tired and anxious times. However once he started growing up a bit, and foun ...more
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I took a chance on this, hoping it would be more like Mr & Mrs Smith--the glam spy life juggled with domestic drama, but it was more heavy on the domestric drama, only with a lot of put-upon whining instead of humor. Then suddenly over-the-top thrill ...more
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This was a delightfully fun puff pastry of a novel featuring a lot of wacky gay characters with a charming Sapphic romance in the center, mixed with the best of the found family trope. Exactly the sort of sheer, exuberant escapism I've needed lately, ...more
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This fast-paced, engaging xianxia adventure is aimed at the teenage audience, but anyone could enjoy it.

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Relatable, believable, and sympathetic characters were the draw for this romance.

Highlights were the way the author wove together humor with realistic situations and issues, using the love story of Finley's grandmother to bring it all together.

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Another winner in this series. I really love how the relationships are gaining complexity, and the villains are those you love to hate. (With some surprises!)

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“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”
Sherwood Smith

“You, there, girl! Halt!"
Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?”
Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel

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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The Aristocrat

The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay
At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).
They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,
And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;
He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,
Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;
He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky,
And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery
The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf;
But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself.

O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away,
And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stay
At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever;
The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever;
There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,
There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain;
There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door,
Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more,
Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark,
And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark:
And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird;
For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 10: Collected Poetry, Part 1

“there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.”
Pamela Dean

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help a man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
William Faulkner, William Faulkner Reads

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Sherwood Smith Marquise wrote: "Hi, Sherwood! Nice to see you again. Thank you for accepting my friendship request. :)"

Marquise wrote: "Hi, Sherwood! Nice to see you again. Thank you for accepting my friendship request. :)"

Looking forward to your reviews!


Marquise Hi, Sherwood! Nice to see you again. Thank you for accepting my friendship request. :)


Sherwood Smith Looking forward to yours as well!


Dorothy Sherwood, thanks for accepting request :D
Looking forward to enjoying your books, have seen good reviews.


Sherwood Smith Well, I was 27 when that was taken--but it scrunched down well for the icon, so I thought, why not!


Michael And good to see you. Your author photo looks positively badass; but then, you are, so fair enough.

I am always here in NYC! (Well, Brooklyn, but close enough.)


Sherwood Smith Maisoon wrote: "Thank you for accepting my request! Crown Duel is next on my Kindle To-Read list, a friend of mine recommended it to me.
I was wondering, do you read Terry Pratchett, author of the Diskworld series?"


I love Terry Pratchett!


Maisoon Al-mahrouqi Thank you for accepting my request! Crown Duel is next on my Kindle To-Read list, a friend of mine recommended it to me.
I was wondering, do you read Terry Pratchett, author of the Diskworld series?


Sherwood Smith Hey, thank YOU! :-)


blondie ♡ I just wanted you to know that Crown Duel is my absolute favourite book. It's always the first suggestion on my lips when someone asks for a recommendation. Thank you so much for writing something that is so dear to me :)


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