A.R. Geiger

My Blog

  • Spire and Stone Review

    I’ve gotta tell y’all something. Are you ready for this? Here we go. In my whole entire life, I have written very, very little fan fiction. Two or three pieces, probably. And only from stories that have knocked me down, knotted me up, and made me so obsessed that I HAD to let it out…

  • Reading with a Baby

    Look! I found a new bookstore! It’s in the library. $14 for all of these, isn’t that amazing? I love used book shopping. I went to Barnes and Noble on an impulse the other day – never do that, by the way, it’s a terrible, horrible idea and my wallet hates me – and spent…

  • Dreadnought

    I just finished my maternity leave. Back to work, at last! Yup. I’m alternately in tears and as content as can be. Missing your baby and enjoying an iced latte at your desk (with a WINDOW!) is a strange feeling, y’all. How amazing is it to be blessed with two wonderful realities to be torn…

  • Old Treasures

    Finding an old story that I’ve written – sometimes years and years later – and discovering that it still has the same magic and whimsy and emotion that it held for me when I first posted it is such a treat! By the way, if you enjoy my short stories, I have BOOKS for sale…

  • Living Like A Writer – Seven Years Later

    At the beginning of 2019, I wrote THIS POST about what it was like to live as a writer. Back then, I was coaching another writer through their creative process, drafting my sixth book, and scrounging for pennies through odd jobs. Oh, and loving on this blog way, way more than I have time to…

  • Passing On The Passion

    I credit my mom for making me love books as much as I do. I also credit her with being the first one to clock that I should be a writer and telling me so long before I was ready to hear it, but that’s a whole different story. When I was little, she would…