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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Subscribe to other author’s press releases to learn what works and what doesn’t in the group Author Platforms: 3 years, 2 months agoPress releases are a whole new skill set for an author to learn. One way to learn faster is to subscribe to other author’s press releases.
You might discover a book you will enjoy but you will see enough […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Platform building tip: Mockup a social profile for your protagonist in the group Author Platforms: 3 years, 2 months agoHere is an author platform building tip – mockup a social profile for your protagonist
This is an exercise in content creation for your platform as well as getting to know your main character better. You are […]
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Blog: 110. This Is Not the Jess Show from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThis is Not the Jess Show. Anna Carey. 2021. [February] 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Three things happened the week I found out. Titanic won a bunch […]
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Blog: Britain’s imperial legacy in spotlight of Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoLonglist for 2021 prize includes Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera and Alex Renton’s Blood Legacy alongside 11 other titlesSathnam Sanghera’s exploration of Bri […]
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Blog: From Boudicca to modern Britain: the dream of island utopias, ruled by women from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoOnce the British Isles were seen as a stronghold of female leadership. Patriarchal culture pushed these stories to the geographical margins – yet they live on, a f […]
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Blog: Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher review – the power of invention from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoA close analysis of the science of stories reveals literature’s ability to change its readers, and the worldWhen my kids were young, I would joke about their r […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Ekdam from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Ekdam appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Sycamore And The Sibyl by Alix E Harrow from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoThe Sycamore And The Sibyl by Alix E Harrow in Uncanny “Before I was a sycamore I was a woman, and before I was a woman I was a girl, and before I was a girl I w […]
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Blog: On Freedom by Maggie Nelson review – intellectually stringent, freely diverse from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoA bold new project reimagines freedom in the areas of art, drugs, sex and climate, forging a collective conversation about how to make freedom work for allCancel […]
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Blog: Susanna Clarke Wins 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe post Susanna Clarke Wins 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: 109. Before the Coffee Gets Cold from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoBefore the Coffee Gets Cold. Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Translated into English by Geoffrey Trousselot. 2019. 213 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: “Oh, gosh, […]
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Blog: If American Gods had flopped on its first outing, would you have kept trying at the novel market, or gone back to doing comics (and the occasional short story) full-time? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoBy the time American Gods came out, Neverwhere, Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors had already been published, and while none of them had hit the NYT bestseller list […]
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Blog: Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoClarke’s follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was praised by judges as ‘a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy’Comment: Piranesi is a trium […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
When it comes to author platforms, perfection is overrated in the group Author Platforms: 3 years, 2 months agoAs an author – established or starting out – a perfect website is not a thing that matters. As long as your platform engages readers and does not actively drive potential readers away, that is good enough. […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Will Brexit doom Thanet’s beaches? in the group Thanet Star: 3 years, 2 months agoWith increased permissions to discharge sewage into our waterways, will Thanet’s beaches lose their blue flag status?
Whenever we have heavy rain, there is a chance Southern Water will discharge effluent into […]
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Blog: Top 10 novels about long-distance relationships | Amber Medland from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoThe pleasures and perils of sustaining human connection while physically separated have inspired writers from Sally Rooney to Vladimir NabokovThe problem of being […]
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Blog: ‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoAcademic finds that lines widely reproduced in the eastern Roman empire are ‘stressed’ in a way that laid the foundations for what we recognise as poetryFor Tay […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Road House from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoRoad House Patrick Swayze is Dalton, the second best bouncer in the business. He’s hired to clean up a night club in Jasper, Missouri. When he gets there it’s rou […]
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Blog: Hotel featured in ‘The Witches’ is looking for a Grand High Witch from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe post Hotel featured in ‘The Witches’ is looking for a Grand High Witch appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: How much do you think about sentence structure when writing? Like for example: “this is a prepositional phrase, this is an adjective and this is an adverb. We’ll put a adjective here and modify this and then again over here, this sentence here is subject-verb-adverb, and let’s make this sentence subject-verb-object.” from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoNone at all, unless there’s something awkward about the sentence I just wrote that doesn’t work, and I’ll have to stop and work out why it doesn’t work. But I d […]
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Blog: Hi Neil! How many languages can you speak? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoFluently? Lots of them, but they’re all versions of English.Haltingly, I’ve leftover schoolboy French (still in there somewhere, and it surfaces after a few day […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Repmobile from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Repmobile appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: 108. The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe Boy Who Failed Show and Tell. Jordan Sonnenblick. 2021. [February] 224 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The luckiest boy in my class is this kid […]
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Blog: 107. Dear Miss Kopp from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoDear Miss Kopp (Kopp Sisters #6). Amy Stewart. 2021 [January] 320 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: May 2, 1918 Dear Norma, You’re a terrible c […]
