Groups
Reach more people
Reach an audience of writers, authors, and book lovers with your own fully customisable (free) profile including a special section for business offerings.
-
Blog: What does it mean to subvert a trope? from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoWhat does it mean to subvert a trope?: thanetcreativewriters:What do you say? What does it mean to subvert a trope?
A question I recently asked on SO Writers. -
John Wooster-Brown wrote a new post on the site John Wooster-Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
The Captain – a view from Ramsgate harbour circa 1898 or maybe early 1900’s – before the first world war.
About The Captain
The traction engine has just placed a Council Road Works van for a gang of men for a […]
-
Blog: British Library exhibition to open in New York in 2018 from
J.K. Rowling in the group We love J.K. Rowling 7 years, 11 months agoThe British Library announced yesterday that its Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition will be travelling to a new home at the New-York Historical Society, […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 11 months ago
A mistake new authors make is to hide what they are doing in fear that someone might steal their ideas. No one is going to steal your ideas – here is why.
To illustrate the point, we told Tumblr what we were […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 7 years, 11 months ago
Today was nothing if not frustrating. I spent hours looking for ways to set up a simple user-badges system and got nowhere fast.
Given the huge number of pre-existing plugins that cover this task, I thought […]
-
Blog: September 2017 from
Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 7 years, 11 months agoSeptember! Baby Hannah arrives! Himself goes away and I go feral! Hello and welcome to my very very very favourite day of the year which is the 1st of September! […]
-
Blog: Harry Potter brought to life with Kindle in Motion from
J.K. Rowling in the group We love J.K. Rowling 7 years, 11 months agoPottermore revealed on 5th September that the 2015 illustrated print edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, featuring magnificent illustrations by aw […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 11 months ago
Researching where to submit short stories can be something of a chore but if you happen to be looking for Sci-Fi magazines accepting submissions (and paying) then you might well be in luck – we have five of […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
This post is an update on what is new with me focusing on publications and submissions.
It only seems moments ago that I published my list of crazy life goals. Now I have some early success to report back […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
I have come to see that what I call “My Crazy Goals” might simply be what others call “my life’s calling”.
I was watching Carrie Green speaking at TEDxManchester and she was talking about setting herself crazy […]
-
Blog: Game Creation Log: That story as a game from
The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoSometimes card game mechanics make for better computer game mechanics.
I’ve been kicking around ideas for a game based on That Story with the cat in it for a […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 7 years, 11 months ago
This post, unlike most of our dev posts, is not about Author Buzz but about some software that I hope will be hosted on Author Buzz one day.
About three years ago I realised that if I was going to make it as a […]
-
Blog: TonnoMint is 3 already, or at least the idea is… from
The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoI turned my AI project on today and realised that I have
been tinkering with it for 3 years now.The funny thing is that for most of those 3 years TONI […]
-
Blog: August 2017 from
Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 7 years, 11 months agoMi Scuzi! Hello, I’m back! And so is Autumn! Hello there, welcome to my shiny new website and I hope it is to your liking. It’s been a while since I’ve done a new […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 12 months ago
With a book, readers know what to expect because the author’s intentions are clear from the title, the cover and the blurb on the back. Are you doing the same with your blog?
Recently, we talked about author […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 12 months ago
How do you know when you have written a story with a vivid sense of time and place?
That’s where asking the right questions comes in.
The sense of place is what brings a story to life. It is what makes […]
-
Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Should authors blog? What should they blog? in the group Author Buzz HQ: 7 years, 12 months agoShould authors blog? If so, what should we be blogging about?
Blogging, like social media, is often touted as the golden ticket to book sales. It rarely delivers on this promise. Of course, they don’t – there is […]
-
Matthew Brown replied to the topic Interview Questions for your MC in the forum Aspiring Authors 8 years ago
Character Childhood
- Who were your parents?
- Do you have any siblings?
- Did you go to school? (And if so, where?)
- Who was your best friend?
- Did you have any childhood pets?
- Well, that’s the facts and figures of your childhood. Tell us about the experience of childhood for you.
-
Matthew Brown replied to the topic Site design and line gaps in the forum General Chat 8 years ago
Yes, I have been thinking the same thing for a while now.
I’d like to review the entire CSS and move us to 1.5 line spacing.
-
Blog: Cast announced for Cursed Child Broadway premiere from
J.K. Rowling in the group We love J.K. Rowling 8 years agoHarry Potter and the Cursed Child will have its Broadway premiere in the Spring of 2018 at the redesigned Lyric Theatre in New York. And we now know that seven […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years ago
You might have noticed that I have not updated any of my stories. I will not apologise for that (unless I start getting lots of lovely comments). What I will do is tell you what I have been up to.
It might be […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years ago
We have given our developer blog a make over and you are the ones who benefit.
The fresh new look for our dev blog will help promote you, the members of Author Buzz and your groups. It will do this by showcasing […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years ago
We’ve put our dev blog on a news footing. As part of our efforts to make sure that blog beta users get a great selection of themes, we have updated the dev blog with a new theme.
While this might not be the […]
-
Jack Dent replied to the topic Site design and line gaps in the forum General Chat 8 years ago
Isn’t that just called line spacing?
LOL.
-
Jason Latnar replied to the topic Interview Questions for your MC in the forum Aspiring Authors 8 years ago
Teenage questions
Time to get to the questions the audience really wants to know about. Who is your crush?
Have you ever kissed them?
Have you ever been kissed by anyone else?
Who do you most want to be with right now?
If you could do anything, what would it be and who would it be with?
We would not have guessed that. Who was the last person…Read more
