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More Grammar Tips for Indie Authors: Common Pitfalls
June 16, 2014 As my contribution to the Rave Reviews Book Club’s mentoring program, I am posting short grammar lessons from time to time. In today’s post, I focus on its and it’s and who and whom, little words that can cause difficulties for the unwary writer. Its and it’s. Do you know the difference between “its” and “it’s”? Can you decide […]
Of Love, Lust and Devotion
18JUN2014 by Waqar Ahmed Shar Baloch Recently I read a story in Sindhi language about Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Shah Abdul Latif is one of the most loved personalities, who was a poet, Sufi religious scholar and lived some three centuries ago. He is equally loved and has devotees among Muslims and Hindus alike. […]
Lost childhood
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Take my hand and hold it tight As you used to do when you were small And trusted me to keep you safe On the woodland path where the trees grow tall. Take my hand and walk with me To the place you loved where the long grass grows…
Take Part in a War Memorial Made of Words
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A project remembering WWI wants as many people as possible to create a new kind of war memorial – one made entirely of words. Writers are taking part and students and schoolchildren and nurses and shop workers and writing groups. Everyone…it’s a wonderful idea and I am going to…
New Horizons: Hubble Hunts KBOs
Centauri Dreams Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:22 AM PDT My guess is that the public thinks of the Hubble Space Telescope largely in relation to deep space objects. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a case in point, a region of the sky in the constellation Fornax that is no more than a […]
Roxane Gay: A Night of “Startling Contrasts”
Originally posted on BookPeople:
~post by Katie P. Roxane Gay is both a product of her time and timeless. When she stopped by BookPeople to celebrate the release of her latest novel, An Untamed State, RGay (as she’s known on Twitter) engaged her audience in an excellent, thorough discussion that included both celebrity gossip (Solange…
The Shift Omnibus, by Hugh Howey
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Today’s post is written by Tabor. Shift, written by Hugh Howey, is the prequel to the dystopian novel Wool and recounts the events that created the Silos or the housing that mankind inhabits after a nuclear fallout. It follows the alternating narratives of Donald, a congressman in…
Guest Post: Sarah Lyons Fleming #SummerZombie
Originally posted on ARMAND ROSAMILIA:
ZOMBIES WILL NEVER DIE You’re here because you love zombies. Who doesn’t? Well, I guess the people who keep telling us that zombies are so over. In the “what’s hot, what’s not” columns, they love to tell us that zombies are dead. They’re right. They are dead, but they’re not…
Advance Praise for “Dying Days 4”
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Dying Days 4 will be officially released on Tuesday, June 24th in eBook and print. Here is the cover art as well as some great praise from three zombie authors that have raised the bar with each new release and forced me to write the best book I can. Keep…
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