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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
Why would you do that to yourself?
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
Not a chance
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jeffjohns replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
Good luck
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jeffjohns replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
Swap with me?
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
We’re an odd mix this year. Me, my dad, my two housemates, and any other odds and ends with nothing better to do.
We’ll be eating and watching sci-fi – probably some Doctor Who.
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Sam Smith replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
I’m hosting my extended family for the first time this year.
Wish me luck.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Platform building tip: Create an anthology and give away half of it for free in the group Author Platforms: 1 week agoPlatform building tip: Create an anthology and give away half of it for freeGetting readers onto the hype train that is the love of your writing is the hardest part of being an author. To overcome that barrier, […]
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
Just me and my brother now. We’re going to stuff our faces and watch Die Hard or sumit IDK.
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jeffjohns started the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week ago
I’m dreading xmas. We’re having a massive family get-together at my parents’ house. It will be noisy and politically heated. Boxing Day, I’m staying home and chilling.
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Blog: Quentin Tarantino blasts The Hunger Games for being a PG ‘rip-off’ of cult classic from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 week, 1 day ago‘The Hunger Games’ author Suzanne Collins has previously denied the claim
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Blog: ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 1 day agoDemocracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary authorAfter the Âphenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of th […]
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Blog: From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoExclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets n […]
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Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoThe Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva MeijerThe Ferryman and His Wife by […]
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Blog: Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoThe author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting NabokovMy earliest reading memory
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The best way to sell books is to sell books in the group Author Platforms: 1 week, 2 days agoThe best way to sell books is to sell booksNothing sells a book to a reader like selling another book to the reader and them loving it. Fiction authors can platform build just by finishing more books.
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Blog: Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoThis collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequalityFolk horror may have had a dramatic resurgence […]
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Blog: Singing? from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 1 week, 3 days agoDid you know that at any given moment, the urge to sing, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away…
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Blog: Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days agoAuthor tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogetherThe Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court […]
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Blog: A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days agoAndy Serkis revels in his narration of the first murder mystery from the author of This Is Going to Hurt, which showcases Kay’s signature pitch-black humourDr E […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The reader onboarding problem in the group Author Platforms: 1 week, 3 days agoThe reader onboarding problemWe authors have but one problem – reader onboarding. Once a reader loves one of your books, they are on board to read the rest. The […]
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Blog: Only Rogue Actions, Jennifer Estep from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 1 week, 4 days ago2025 romantic SF, fifth of an ongoing series. Vesper Quill and Kyrion
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Your author platform is not marketing it is reputation in the group Author Platforms: 1 week, 4 days agoYour author platform is not marketing it is reputationAn author platform is not (just) marketing. In fact, it is mostly anything but marketing. Marketing is what you use to grow your platform. […]
