Best early April Fools joke: Four Sets of Identical Twins Staged a Time Travel Prank on an NYC Subway. Sadly, not a joke: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day. Privilege is what allows Sanders supporters to say they’ll...
Let's kick off the week with some book talk. Here's what I've been reading recently: The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. This YA series gets a lot of buzz online, so I thought I'd finally pick it up and see what the fuss was about. The world is a mix of future...
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: How The Rest Of The World Sees Donald Trump: 12 Foreign Political Cartoons. The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online. Women Need More Sleep Than Men Because Fighting the...
I am an admitted internet addict. I laugh in the face of those surveys that ask me to estimate the time I spend online. It'd be easier to estimate the time I spend offline. Admittedly, a lot of that online time is due to work, but still. I am online a LOT. And you...
Over on my design blog, I launched a new freebie for indie authors, to help jumpstart the book cover design process with their designer: 50 Questions from Your Novel's Cover Designer. File under things I will never use: Sadistic Writing App Deletes Your Work if...
Time Zero (#1) by Carolyn Cohagan. Time Zero is the first YA novel by Austin author Carolyn Cohagan. It tells the story of Mina, a fifteen year old girl living inside the walls of what was once Manhattan, under the rule of an extremist religious regime. Her world is...
Advice of the week: Be thoughtful about your friends’ money situations. So much this!! Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? My result said I am a 'married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year'. Ha! The...
Stray (Four Sisters #1) by Elissa Sussman. Princess Aislynn wants nothing more than to follow the Path she was born to: complete her schooling, attend her Introduction Ball, dance with the suitors her advisor and parents have chosen for her, get married, have...
I want this staircase/bookshelf so bad. Play nice! How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour. Standing Ovations Should Be Reserved for Productions That Earn It. Agreed. They lose meaning if they're given for everything. How I Learned That Being...
Hi, I’m Amanda!
I’m a self-employed graphic designer by day, and a crafty hungry bookworm by night. Dragonflight Dreams is where I write about books, recipes, internet goodies, life things, crafty projects, Austin happenings, and more.
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