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More Best Bloggers Blogging to check out … | Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
I love getting up in the morning and finding little treasures. Today Susan Toy posted some of her favorite blogs. First, I checked out each blog I didn’t already know about, then I followed their blogs. What a great way to find new bloggers out there. Thank you, Susan. Here’s her…
Friday Quick Quote: Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the…
Top 5 Writer’s Weekend Edition Posts of 2016
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
As I mentioned in a recent post, I’m having a little trouble getting back in gear after the holidays. It’s the start of a shiny New Year, but I’m not quite all the way into the swing of it yet. Though part of my malaise…
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…
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