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Dear Authors…An Open Letter To All Authors This Year
Originally posted on Happymeerkatreviews:
Dear Authors, Please make it easy for me to review for you this year, by remembering all these things: Please get my name right, it’s not hard to learn, it appears all over the web. Either call me by my name, or just say ‘hi’. But please don’t call me something…
I’ll Do It My Way
As people who read my last post will know, I received my first bad review recently. This lead to a lot of self-doubt and questioning. The review claimed my book was boring erotica. The boring bit I had no problem with. We are all entitled to our own opinion and I know not everyone will…
Creating a Fictional Town by Judy Penz Sheluk
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
? When I started writing Skeletons in the Attic, I wanted to create a fictional town that readers could believe in. I also wanted my protagonist, Calamity (Callie) Barnstable, to be a fish out of water. I decided to make Callie a single woman born and raised in the…
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Listed Building
The Historic England Blog One of the most popular detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes has seen many outings on the screen, and the BBC1 series with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman makes use of many listed buildings in its filming. Paul Backhouse, Head of Imaging at Historic England, takes us through a few of his […]
Picture Book Believing: Sharing Picture Books with Intermediate Students by Carrie Gelson
Originally posted on Nerdy Book Club:
Stories have the potential to alter our perceptions about our world. We need stories. Lots and lots of them. Picture books, shared in a classroom where writing, thinking and discussion happen, offer countless opportunities for each of us to grow in how we understand each other, our place in…
Writing Week in Review: 1/7-1/13
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
This week was an odd one for writing because it began with a few days of being snowed in. Normally I wouldn’t have minded – wintry days are perfect ones for curling up with a story idea – but not being able to go into the office early in the…
Kindle Unlimited above Half a Penny per Page 3 Months in a Row!
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Image from ShutterStock. KINDLE UNLIMITED The Kindle Unlimited KENP per-page rate for December, 2016 is $0.00524. That makes three months in a row that it stayed above half a penny per page. Amazingly, the per-page rate didn’t drop during the holiday season. That’s great news. At the same time, the KDP…
Michael Bond … the bear necessities
Originally posted on Routine Matters:
Michael Bond … the bear necessities Illustration by Alan Vest Michael Bond, (born 13 January 1926) is an English author, best known for his Paddington Bear series of books. Bond began writing in 1945 whilst stationed with the army in Cairo and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. He was paid seven…
How to Handle Rejection
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Tonya R. Moore Rejection bites. That’s the plain and simple truth. You pour your heart into a story and revise the heck out of it. Then you submit/query and repeat until hopefully, someone finally thinks that you have something worth publishing. Unless you’re some sort of literary genius…
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