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Revisions Complete on The Wolfcat Chronicles Book 8
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
Judging from how the past few weeks have gone with revisions to The Wolfcat Chronicles, I’m not promising a finished by date for the upcoming Book 9 experience. It could come sooner than later, but realistically I believe the end of February might be an accurate target.…
Flash Fiction Friday: Titles Are Pointless
Originally posted on Bizarro Central:
by Pedro Proença There is a problem with language. In itself, it’s just a way of communicating uselessness. What we are are mere specks of something on a big beach. The beach is connected to a desert, and beyond that, we can’t even imagine. Once I swallowed a car. It…
Paul Quarrington
Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
I just heard the news that Paul Quarrington has passed away, at the age of 56. He was an accomplished author, musician, and filmmaker, well-known, appreciated, and respected across Canada. Paul was also my writing mentor when I took the Humber School of Creative Writing program, online, in…
Spoken Poetry on request: Black Rose
Originally posted on petitemagique:
A while ago, my friend Phil asked me if I could do a spoken version of ‘Black Rose’. I finally found the time to do so! 🙂 To listen, click here—> Black Rose Black Rose – A Wilderness of such lovely confusion yet, you take it all in Stars too high…
10 Lesser-Known MG/YA First-in-Series FREE Books
Do you follow all the lists about which middle grade/YA books you, your kids, or your students should be reading? Are you tired of seeing the same well-known books on all the lists? Have you tried finding lists with lesser-known books? Here is a list of ten middle grade/YA books in a series with the…
Is this editor weird? or, It’s all about the books (am I allowed to use that phrase?)
Originally posted on LibroEditing proofreading, editing, transcription, localisation:
It’s my birthday today, and I’m anxiously listening for the doorbell. I’m expecting a delivery … of a style book for an editing style I don’t use very often, but is the style being used for a large project I’m working on. I know that there are…
My Six Favourite Literary Insults
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
It’s not all elegant sentences and good taste in the literary world…sometimes words can wound and sometimes they can bite back… Mark Twain on Jane Austen I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen,…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 