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Announcing the Release of Concordant Vibrancy 3: Lustrate

Originally posted on The Indie Spot!:
Greetings, and thank you for joining us in the phenomenal yearly celebration, that we call, “Concordant Vibrancy’s Book Release”. Every year, thus far, we’ve had an amazing collection of authors collaborate in narrating their interpretations of that year’s theme question. The very first Concordant Vibrancy revolved around the theme…

The Ultimate Character Questionnaire (156 questions)…

The Ultimate Character Questionnaire (156 questions)…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
This character questionnaire has been collated from a variety of sources. It has been split into categories to try to make it more manageable, but this categorisation is far from perfect and lots of the questions could probably be in more than one category. If…

I can’t brain today, I have the dumb

5 Mistakes Authors Make on Social Media

Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Michael Cristiano I thought writing a novel was the hard part. I thought endless drafting and editing and proofreading involved the most work when it came to being a writer. I was wrong. My debut novel has been on sale for a little less than a month, and I…

Meet Guest Author Mark Simmons…

Meet Guest Author Mark Simmons…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
It is a loaded question to be asked why you write. For the answer will differ from one author to the next. But it is a question that I am happy to answer. There are a number of reasons. The solitude of writing can be…

How To Write Characters from the Opposite Gender

Did he, or didn’t he?

Originally posted on Lorna's Voice:
I’m only posting this because I care about you. You’ve no doubt been: Waiting…to hear about what happened to me…or to him…or if my hat is a bit much. ? Wondering…about how things turned out…for me…or him…or if above-the-waist pants will ever make a comeback. ? Having difficulty focusing…it’s…

…art covers for Authors?…there was a time, a time there was…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
? …it seems not such an age ago that my frequency of trips from where I live in the Middle East to London was dictated by the need to stock up with physical copy books from Waterstones in Piccadilly… I was what’s prob’ly known as a ‘weight purchaser’…I bought books…

Free Speech Tested by Simon and Schuster

Originally posted on ckbooksblog:
Drew Angerer/Getty Images from npr website Did anyone hear this piece on NPR recently about a book by social media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos?:               https://www.npr.org/player/embed/509497010/509542890 It’s an interesting topic of conversation, in particular for all writers and readers out there. Does anyone have the right…

La La Land

Originally posted on Movie Truth:
Dir: Damien Chazell, 2016 3/10 I have no idea what film the critics have been watching but it, surely, can’t be this. Is there another film with this title that I haven’t heard about? My god, this film is awful. A throwback to the musicals of the fifties, such as…

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