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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...

I found this an empathetic and helpful book, so here is my review on Amazon. https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0DCWC5QZH?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title#customerReviews

Hi, first day here. I write Mystery/Thriller. My new book Fair Exchange is coming out Sep. 3d. I trad. publish. I'm looking forward to sharing and learning. Thank you.

Well, it's been a heck of a year :rolleyes: sparing everyone the details, our immediate family (me, my wife and both our fathers) were struck with various cancers so... #fuckcancer Now that's over with, I've come back out of hiatus and I'm back to writing again. I published my fourth book just...

'The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.' Paulo Coelho

“A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten.” Phyllis A. Whitney

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory.” Jorge Luis Borges

“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” Wally Lamb

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Ray Bradbury

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Michael Moorcock