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Blog: Naoise Dolan: 'I'm not good at presenting myself as likeable' from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 8 months agoThe young Irish writer, who has won acclaim for her debut novel, on writing in a time of crisis and finding comfort in small routinesIt’s the author’s equ […]
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Blog: Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 8 months agoTo live better we need to see food as more than a commodity, argues the author of Hungry City in this ambitious ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’In the ope […]
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Blog: Zonal by Don Paterson review – rich, masked musings on midlife crisis from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 8 months agoThe prize-winning poet’s new collection, inspired by The Twilight Zone, is a witty, wily hall of mirrorsThere is a scene in the black-and-white sci-fi TV p […]
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Blog: <p>Hi Neil. I feel strange being one of the people who has to ask this, but could you please help us out with a reblog? My QPP @markaleb has a gofundme post up on his blog for us to help us after our apartment building burned down on the 8th. Obviously I understand if you don't, but it would help us so much. Thanks either way. Also thank you for your writing, it's been a huge comfort while we wait for news. Our collection of your books is going to be one of the first things replaced.</p> from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 8 months agoSure. Good luck.
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Blog: Chimpanzee typing from
AB-IN.UK: Author Buzz (in) UK in the group AB-in.UK 4 years, 8 months agoDirect link URL https://ab-in.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chimpanzee_seated_at_typewriter.jpg Image Description This chimpanzee typing is an Author Buzz […]
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Blog: business and entrepreneurship from
AB-IN.UK: Author Buzz (in) UK in the group AB-in.UK 4 years, 9 months agoA collection of images for business, trading, and entrepreneurship topics. Lots of business and office type settings, plenty of laptops, a few mugs of coffee and a […]
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The artist and the key collector in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 4 years, 9 months agoHim
He is a fastidiously tidy and well-organised person who collects old keys. He works at a small shop that specialises in restoring furniture. He hopes, one day, to discover a lock that one of his old keys […]
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Blog: 56. Killing November from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 4 years, 9 months agoKilling November. Adriana Mather. 2019. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy] [YA Fiction; YA Action; YA Mystery] […]
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Blog: <p>Hello! My friend and I have been discussing something when I realised I can just ask you – do angels and demons in Good Omens have free will? Aziraphale says no, but we know he often says things just for the sake of acting like a good angel. Crowley says demons aren't supposed to have free will, but he learned it anyway. There are some angels who are more than willing to smite humans and some demons who aren't deep down evil. So do they have free will or not? Thank you and stay safe!</p> from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 9 months agoDo people have free will? Angels and demons have whatever people have, even if they like to give the impression they are above that sort of thing.
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Blog: <p>Hi! Getting through quarantine by re-reading Sandman. I had a couple of questions and I hope you have time to answer them. In Preludes and Nocturnes, if Alex had just let Dream out of the cage when his dad had died, would Dream have left without punishing him? And feel free not to answer this if it's still too spoilery, but is Matthew The Raven also Matt Cable from Swamp Thing? Thanks for all that you do! I hope you are happy and healthy.</p> from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 9 months agoYes, he would have done. Yes, he is.
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Blog: <p>Hello Neil! I don't speak English well, so I apologize for the mistakes. I would like to know, because this topic was controversial, was Crowley good before the fall? I mean, did he stay good despite the fall, or did he become good over time?</p> from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 9 months agoI think Crowley was never quite as good as he likes to maintain, and nowhere nearly as bad as Heaven would like to imagine.
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Blog: <p>Hi! I just finished reading "Little Panic" by Amanda Stern, and saw her acknowledgement of you and Amanda. I just wanted go reach out and say thank you for being supportive of your fellow authors! This book was phenomenal and, although hard to read at the end, (it hit a bit close to home); I have never before seen anxiety described so well, and I have never before felt so at home, understood, and sane. I am glad that she wrote it, and thrilled you and Amanda offered her the space to do so. </p> from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 9 months agoIt’s a marvelous book by a wonderful author. I was very happy to give Amanda Stern and her dog Busy a place to write. (She was the lowest maintenance houseguest I […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Do you suffer from writer's block? in the forum General Chat 4 years, 9 months ago
If there were such an easy cure, someone would have made a fat stack of cash writing a book about it.
Maybe even a series.
Or it would be so well known that writers’ block would never be an issue.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic How do you give a lot of necessary world-building knowledge without info-dumps? in the forum A QnA for aspiring authors 4 years, 9 months ago
If you need to introduce that much background information before the plot proper can get underway then you need a narrative that can act both as character introduction and development whilst also being a tour of your world.
From the sounds of what you are describing you first act (25%) is probably this easing in phase. Following an outside into…Read more
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Blog: My favourite book as a kid: Sabriel by Garth Nix from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoThe author of the bestselling Bone Season novels rereads the book that first showed her fantasy could make room for the heroic femaleMore lockdown readingMy […]
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Blog: Oxford dictionary revised to record linguistic impact of Covid-19 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoOED lexicographers report seeing huge rise in ‘a very short period of time’ of many coronavirus-related terms including self-isolation and WFHWith terms such as […]
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Blog: rocket-prose:
A really spectacular “jam” piece. Down below is… from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 4 years, 9 months agorocket-prose:
A really spectacular “jam” piece. Down below is the auction listing for this piece, as it appeared on the Heritage Auctions website. (the pie […]
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Blog: From Harry Potter at Home to the National Shelf Service: bookish fun for the lockdown from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoAn updating list of online treats from bibliophiles including JK Rowling, Simon Armitage and Lynda La Plante to entertain locked-down children and adults • The b […]
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Blog: Top 10 novels about unconventional families | Ingrid Persaud from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoTrinidadian novelist Ingrid Persaud chooses books in which people attach themselves to ‘a something’ that might ease their lonelinessMy mother said to make sur […]
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Blog: The Frightened Ones by Dima Wannous review – love and loneliness in Syria from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoThis multilayered tale of revolution and displacement explores the psychological fallout from living under a brutal dictatorshipMidway through Dima Wannous’s n […]
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Blog: A Quick Copywriting Lesson Taken Directly from an Email Marketing Fail from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 4 years, 9 months agoTen years ago, a tattoo shop I went to subscribed my email address to their email newsletter. They didn’t send…
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Blog: Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell review – how to survive the End from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoImagined doom … an acclaimed writer confronts ideas of the end of civilisation, meets those preparing for it, and manages his anxiety The apocalypse needs to […]
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Blog: The EU was created to keep nationalism in check. Coronavirus is a dangerous test from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years, 9 months agoHistory shows that nationalism thrives in times of crisis. With the pandemic bringing mass death and economic catastrophe, the EU’s response has been slow, s […]
