Tag Archive | harry potter
What I did during my holiday
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
I rarely get personal but since I’ve been MIA for three weeks I thought I’d share a little. First, we went to Paris, France to visit family and celebrate the high school graduation of my beautiful granddaughter. The day started out a little overcast and cloudy with a chance…
The Elevator Pitch: Telling People About Your Book in One Sentence
Originally posted on Self-Published Authors Helping Other Authors:
You may be talking to someone at a party, at work, or while waiting to lead an army of werewolves and asuras into battle to stop the demonic entity Delassi from entering our dimension and consuming it entirely (or is that just me?), and the subject you’ve…
The Best Kind of Bot: The New Yorker’s Poetry Bot
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
As many of you know, I am a poetry nerd, which is why I am incredibly excited to share The New Yorker’s new Poetry Bot. By following the Bot on Twitter or Facebook Messenger, people can receive excerpts from different poems every day for the next three months. The poems have been…
A New Species: Harry Potter and the Crab King
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
No, the title of this post doesn’t refer to a piece of Harry Potter fan fiction about the dangers of overfishing. Instead it references the naming of a newly identified species of crab, Harryplax severus. Harryplax severus is the wondrous, pale creature pictured above. He and his brethren come from the…
Rejection to Perfection Weekend … Part Two
Originally posted on Routine Matters:
Rejection to Perfection Weekend … Part Two The best-selling author JK Rowling was pitching her first novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym and it was actually rejected by Constable and Robinson and Creme de la Creme publishers. The Cuckoo’s Calling, a post-war detective novel, went on to be…
Do you need new ideas?
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Sometimes I think we all get stuck for an idea to move us on to a new project or power through a WIP. We all have favorite books. No matter the genre. Books that speak to us and stay with us long after the words “the end.” This is…
#MondayBlogs: Writing Complex Female Villains
Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Intro: Welcome to #MondayBlogs! Every Monday, a guest blogger will be covering a topic revolving around reading and writing, and today’s topic can be found on the more ominous side of literature. SiameseMayhem is a sassy reader and the writer behind Pirate Kitties: Musings on YA Novels and Pop Culture…
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