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  1. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat First be a storyteller-How to write a book-from a nonagenarian

  2. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Talking about how I might write.....

    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
  3. Sedayne

    News New Tiffany Yates Martin book out today.

    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.
  4. Jason L.

    Book Club 19 October 2024: Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn

    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...
  5. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If writing and publishing a book is....

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

    Dandelion Break David Bowie OnLine Book Club

    . 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...
  7. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It takes an awful.....

  8. Mel L

    Help Please! How can you tell the genre of a book?

    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...
  9. Rachel Caldecott

    Review Write Anyway by Jon Meyers and Emily Brookes

    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
  10. Fairexchange2024

    Book Club New here

    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.
  11. Matthew WP

    Self-Publishing Hey everyone, I'm back!

    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...
  12. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day The book is....

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

    Thought for the Day A good book....

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

    Thought for the Day A book is....

    “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
  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If the book....

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

    Thought for the Day A book has....

    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
  17. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day The book trade....

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

    Thought for the Day Writing a book....

    'Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.' — Don Marquis
  19. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing a book takes....

    Writing a book takes me a long time. There are ALWAYS times when it feels too hard, too unimportant, too lonely. My process seems to be: take a few steps in the dark, fall, lie there, eventually get up, take a few more steps. Slowly, the landscape of the story becomes easier to see, almost...
  20. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A book is....

    'A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.... It is one of the few havens remaining where [your] mind can get both provocation and privacy.' Edward P. Morgan '
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