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Hello everyone and happy new year! I just wanted to share with you this doc that was posted in my screenwriting group. I know it is more tailored for screenwriting but I found it very useful for my book as well, it builds drama and covers the who, what, why and opposing forces thereby enticing...

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next. Terri Guilemets

"A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well". Sylvia Boorstein

Hi! LBF published their schedule including the one for the Writer's Summit which happens the day before on March 10. You can see the program for all 4 days here: Seminar Programme | The London Book Fair I am just thinking if upgrading my tix to the writer's summit is worth it (another 100...

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Hi Everyone, so I'm thinking of attending the London Book Fair this year (I live in France) and was just wondering if you have any experience with it? Is this mostly for agents and publishers? Or is there also something for authors to do there? On their website there is a Writer's Summit but not...

New blog post by Eva Ulian – discussions in this thread, please --- Don’t expect people who barely know you or don’t know you at all will promote your book. It’s not likely that people will go out of their way so you can climb a step up the ladder to success, unless they are invested. Nor can...

Thank all of you for participating in the book club this year! We've had some wonderful books and some real turkeys, but we've even had fun mocking the bad books this year. I look forward to repeating the event. So, would you like to take part? The Litopia Literary Society (Okay, I just made...

thestorygraph.com is the book discovery and review site I mentioned in the Huddle today. I found it on BlueSky. What better place to find an Ammie/Goodreads alternative than on a Xitter alternative, right? So why would anyone need something other than the big two? 1. Formatting options...

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” Agatha Christie

I'm reading the book featured in this article (Duffy & Son). Highly recommend it. A wry, funny, and poignant study of getting older. So I did a little research into the author. I think his personal writing story might be of interest to many of us...

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. Louise Erdrich

https://foxprinteditorial.com/my-books/ FYI: new Tiffany Yates Martin book out today. I know a lot of us have found her previous book Intuitive Editing invaluable. This looks like another essential addition to the writer's bookshelf.

Hi everybody! This week we'll be discussing PJ's choice, The Last Unicorn. And in case you were wondering, there was an early 80s animated movie of this book hat was a surprisingly faithful adaptation. Here's the themesong: It is at 3 PM EST on the 19th of October--see the link below. That's...

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. Heather Hart

. The man who read the world: David Bowie’s son launches an online book club in his honour. Something not well known about Bowie: he was an avid reader, sometimes finishing a book in a single day. Rock star David Bowie was “a beast of a reader,” according to his son, Duncan Jones; so Jones...

I've recently started to try and break down genre a little more and am finding it harder than anticipated. Is there a quick way to identify a book's genre? On Amazon, for example, there are so many filters and categories (Best Sellers, New Releases, etc) that it's hard to see where a novel...