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What I notice listing the books I've read since I don't know when is that my own writing is a product of these books, their style, their mood, even the images of their covers.

I've always believed, as the cliche says, that the devil is in the details. I love to seek out little known facts that can't be found in historical accounts, newspapers and non-fiction works. Whilst writing my book Tomaree I interviewed upwards of 100 elderly people on their experiences of living... Read more of this blog post »

Yesterday I finally saw The Cosmonaut, a crowd sourced and crowdfunded sci-fi film from Spain, and I was simply blown away. Beautiful, evocative, thought provoking and bold - that's how I like my sci-fi.

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guest post by Tanith Morse
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Drop by and meet my guest blogger, Terri Talley Venters with her new release, Copper Cauldron. We'd love to hear from you.
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One of my Regency romances, The Silverton Scandal, is free on Kindle today and tomorrow, so if you haven't read it, now is a good time to try it! It's free on all Amazons worldwide.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Silverton...

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Triadic Philosophy is an open source teaching for this century and beyond. Each statement can stand alone. Each can be used as a message. Each can be used without attribution.

1. Reality is all, known and unknown.
1a. God and reality are synonyms.
1a1. God is known and unknown.
1a2. God is synonymou... Read more of this blog post »

The Woolwich terror attack in south-east London is just another example of how easily vulnerable people can be radicalised by religious extremists. An attack like this is one reason why I wrote The Bomb On My Back. The way radicalisation brainwashes a person is truly frightening.

Hi,

I am crying so hard at the new NSC book 'The Hunt for Summer'.
Literally sobbing, I can't see the keyboard or the monitor and I wrote the bloomin' thing.
Crazy.

Anyway, Just letting you all know I have given it a release date for 7th June but I'm hoping to get it published earlier if I can.
I'll k... Read more of this blog post »

Blog.Culture.Book reviews.Variety of themes.Active google translate button.

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A young British soldier walking in Woolwich London was cut down by two men wanting to be filmed, publicised and willing to die for their cause but in doing so take a life and traumatise a family and a community.
Its hard to imaging what drove these men to commit such brutal murder but having worke... Read more of this blog post »

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Seminggu sudah berlalunya pesta buku terbesar di Malaysia - PBAKL 2013. Alhamdulillah, setelah sekian lama, inilah baru pertama kali saya dapat menjejakkan kaki ke pesta buku tersebut sebagai seorang penulis.

Pengalaman yang mengujakan.

Saya hadir ke pesta buku dan kebanyakan m... Read more of this blog post »

Been getting some questions about what's up with I'm Only Human After All and amazon.com. Currently the book is going through the final phases of a revision for a new edition that is more teacher friendly. 3rd party sellers are selling 1st eds. for $100+ because the book is TEMPORARILY unavailab... Read more of this blog post »

Why don't you pop on over to Amazon Kindle and have a read it is now the 44th Best selling Amazon Kindle Horror book and 69th in Science fiction.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ORIGIN-ebook/...
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Has Already gone on sale my new book of fairy tales, in Spanish; Noche en la estación del Norte y otros cuentos fantásticos, you can download it in your shop Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXTIT22

Hi!

So now Huaquero, my thrilling sequel to Huahuqui, is available to download as a Kindle book from Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Huaquero-Huahuq...

Only .99!

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Why you may ask do I feel he is owed one? Simply because he was the first to say that the United States and the United Kingdom are two nations separated by a common language, and I am using that as the basis of this blog today.
It is a problem faced by any author who wants his work to be read in b... Read more of this blog post »

You may not know it, but your copyright piracy could land you in jail:

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Dear friends,
I invite you to read my books, too, while you are swallowing the best of the great writers' work. After all, while the huge elephants and impressive zebras romp the earth, the tiny creatures and lovely birds also flit about in this atmosphere of ours.
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I’ve never actually met my partner’s cousin (who shall remain nameless). He lives on the other side of the world and I have only ever communicated with him via Skype and, more recently, Facetime. That is to say, I usually poke my head into shot, wave to him and say a few words over my partner’s s... Read more of this blog post »

I released Evan Burl and the Falling in August of 2012. It rose to #1 on Amazon and many great reviews starting pouring in (and some not-so-great reviews). But over the following months, I began hearing more and more, from a significant segment of my audience who were frustrated with the ending.... Read more of this blog post »

If you don’t follow publishing news, you probably missed the Kindle Worlds announcement. If you do follow publishing news, you’re probably literally drowning in Kindle Worlds commentary right now. “Help, I’m so scared” you manage to sputter, coughing up a lungful of op-ed pieces and trying, despe...

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One of the most popular series of posts on an old blog I had was Vintage Ad Fun, so I thought I'd resurrect it here for your amusement. The first installment is brought to you by the miracle that is Listerine.

Are you unpopular?



It might be your "unexcusable" bad breath.

But don't worry. You can in... Read more of this blog post »

Το αν ένα βιβλίο ανήκει στον αναγνώστη ή στο συγγραφέα του με απασχολεί συχνά τελευταία. Διαπιστώνω με τρόμο πως θέλω να κάνω αυτό που κορόιδευα, να υπερασπιστώ τα γραπτά μου, να εξηγήσω την τάδε λεπτομέρεια, να αντικρούσω τη δείνα κατηγορία, να δώσω στους ήρωες μου τα μαλλιά και το πρόσωπο π... Read more of this blog post »

“Quelle âme se disputera mon corps?”“Je suis toutes les choses, tous les hommes et tous les animaux!”Arthur Cravan.



En 1917, el New York Times se hace eco de una publicación de 1913 de un tal Arthur Cravan relatando que Oscar Wilde estaba vivo. El susodicho autor afirma en Oscar Wilde est viv... Read more of this blog post »

Guess what? The amazing & wonderful Stephanie fromSteph's Cover Designredesigned Kitchen Affairs cover jacket! What do you think?

Didn't she do amazing??Will be available for paperback purchase soon! :)
Brooke xo
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Does any of these statements sound familiar?

Lacking at engagement, responding to tweets, comments on Facebook etc.
LinkedIn page needs added or updated.
Not sure what to do with the new Facebook applications that replaced the Facebook tabs.
Social listening, how do you do that again?
ROI, measurin... Read more of this blog post »

Blogger, The Mad Reviewer, talks quality in her post "An Apology to Self-Published Writers". Of the hundreds of books she has read and reviewed, she praises MINE. Thanks!

Her honest post is a must read for all book readers. I excerpted my little mention below but click here to read her full, insig...

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It is true. You can print food now.

NASA paid to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars. NASA hopes the technology may one day be used to feed astronauts on longer space missions, such as the roughly 520 days required for a manned flight...

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This is what my refrigerator looks like right now (and no, this is not staged…it actually looks like this:

What can I say? I’ve been traveling a lot and working like crazy to promote the book, in addition to my regular screenwriting job. Still, this is abysmal.

(And before anyone suggests that my h...

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Once I reach 500 Likes on my Author Facebook Page then I will be holding a rafflecopter for a chance to win an ecopy of Private Message, $5 Amazon Gift Card and a hand painted "Book Slut" plaque!

Here is the link:

Author Danielle Torella on Facebook

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“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.”

- Eve Ensler

Some authors can write all day and then cheerfully read all evening. Others can't. And unfortunately, I'm very much afraid that I fall into the latter category. I can't properly concentrate on my own work while reading the work of other people.

Why? Well in my case, I'm afraid it's a matter of a t... Read more of this blog post »

An Odyssey of Adventure and Discovery

Telling my story has been a story in itself. After writing for five months I had to determine how to publish my manuscript. As an independent recording artist, my creative DNA is wired to do things myself. Music industry gatekeepers have never supported me, a...

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Okay. So. If you know me, you know I'm a ASoIaF fandude.

I find the writing brilliant, the early plotlines completely engaging, the characters to be fantastic, etc etc etc. I don't mind all of the characters , and backstory, and lore. I didn't find the first three books boring. I found them fucki... Read more of this blog post »

So, as the postsuggests i want to talk a little about times zones. Of course seeing I know nothing really scientific on the topic it won’t be all thatinformative, it was just something i found cool, in a way, i guess.

So today I had to wake up at 4am in the morning to attend a webinar, (which for...

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Cia lives in Five Lakes colony, the region of the country that used to be the Great Lakes, but is now a blighted region thanks to the Seven Stages War, a terrible conflict that killed millions and left most of the world environmentally destroyed. The United Commonwealth is now focused on revital... Read more of this blog post »