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[We must all strive for perfection. @Giraffedata, you know who you are.] Grammar Stickler Banishes comprised of From Wikipedia When I came across an online story headlined “One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake,” I of course had to find out who this…
Originally posted on Bed. Bath. Books. And sometimes wine.:
This afternoon I’m drinking wine – a crisp dry chardonnay – and thinking about books I just didn’t think were that great. You know the kind. The Guardian raved about it, it’s a best seller. Everyone’s reading it. The Finkler Question springs to mind immediately. Maybe…
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So today I wanted to talk about relationships. No, this isn’t just for Romance books. This is about all relationships–your antagonist and his second-in-command, your hero and her best friend, and even the protagonist and the antagonist (chances are, if they’re fighting each other for any length of time, they…
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This was amazingly subversive at the time that it was written. And I suppose that a person who was raised Christian or Jewish might find it mind-blowingly subversive even now. […]
Read More Book Review: Behold the Man by Michael MoorcockBy Francesca Devin Bridging a story between the creator and the reader is as spry as writing and publishing. Marketers find ways for readers to reach new means for wisdom, spur, and escape through virtually bound stories. Although major publications do that for you, there are less-observed gems in the outskirts of the internet heeding […]
Read More 12 Book Marketing Tips from 12 Industry ExpertsBy James Scott Bell My neighbor John loves to work on his hot rod. He’s an automotive whiz and tells me he can hear when something is not quite right with the engine. He doesn’t hesitate to pop the hood, grab his bag of tools and start to tinker. He’ll keep at it until the […]
Read More The 7 Tools of DialogueFlashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians by Lin Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the High Fantasy Reading Challenge and the Genre Non-Fiction Reading Challenge. This is an outstanding collection of some of the best in classic sword and sorcery writing! I had heard of all of these fine fantasy writers, […]
Read More Book Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin Carter. . . plus one by Robert J. Sawyer, who is himself a successful Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora winning Canadian science fiction author. Just sayin’. By Robert J. Sawyer There are countless rules for writing success, but the most famous ones, at least in the science-fiction field, are the five coined by the late, great […]
Read More Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules of WritingBy Rachel Hartman #30days30authors I grew up in the Middle Ages. Well, not the Middle Ages exactly, but in Kentucky, which is close, and with a father who believed that if you didn’t have garden soil under your nails, you just weren’t working hard enough. We lived in the middle of town, but he was […]
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