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  1. 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...
  2. 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
  3. 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...
  4. 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
  5. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A good book....

    “A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten.” Phyllis A. Whitney
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day The book trade....

    The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Michael Moorcock
  10. 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
  11. 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...
  12. 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 '
  13. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A bad book....

    A bad book is as much a labour to write as a good one. Aldous Huxley
  14. Katie-Ellen

    So many books still to read....so little time

  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A book lying....

    A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. Henry Miller
  16. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day The book to read....

    The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one that makes you think. Harper Lee
  17. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A good book....

    A good book….leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Richard Flanagan
  18. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It’s not hard to write a book...

    It's not hard to write a book. It's hard to write well....Write. Make mistakes. Take the time to learn what you want to be. John Connolly
  19. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If a book....

    If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it will be expected to be in print another fifty years. This, simply, as a rule, tells you why things that have been...
  20. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Your first book is the only one that matters.

    'Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.' Italo Calvino
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