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January 18, 2022
“What is it they say? No pain, no gain? That’s horse $#!&...
“What is it they say? No pain, no gain? That’s horse $#!&. Pain is overrated.”
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📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: DISSIDENTS 📚 Disside...
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: DISSIDENTS 📚
Dissidents is my second published novel. It’s about an American teen who’s transplanted from the US to the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, when his mother is appointed as the US ambassador there. I have always been fascinated by Russia, and Russian culture. When I wrote the book, I had never been there—although I did ask the publisher to send me. They just laughed and laughed.
Even so, I did exhaustive research to make the book authentic, including spending...
January 17, 2022
A Super Reader Who Gets Through Hundreds of Books a Year ...
A Super Reader Who Gets Through Hundreds of Books a Year Explains How to Read Way More
Our Monday Motivation for today… how to ‘read more’!
Are you like Tyler Cowen from this article or do you take your time in reading your books?
Let us strive to be a light that doesn’t just drive hatre...
Let us strive to be a light that doesn’t just drive hatred into the shadows, but illuminates every corner so there are no shadows left for hatred to hide in.
January 16, 2022
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: BRUISER 📚
I was never much into the Beat poets of the 50’s and 60’s but one thing about being a writer is that you’re always educating yourself. I was fascinated by this poetry movement. Here’s a little more about Allen Ginsberg, and the Beat poets (Warning Ginsberg was not about clean language! So if that offends you, move along, nothing to see here!):
Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Poets https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/allen-ginsberg https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/147552/an-in...
January 15, 2022
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: BRUISER 📚
I love this link that Symone Powell found! The chapter titles of BRUISER are intended to be ironic vocabulary words. Let’s see how you do on this weird word vocab test! https://bzfd.it/34NqKPz
January 14, 2022
🌟 Fan Art Friday 🌟 Here’s a fan’s depi...
🌟 Fan Art Friday 🌟
Here’s a fan’s depiction of Brewster in BRUISER, my Book of the Week!
Link: https://bit.ly/3nktRER
January 13, 2022
Browsing through my tagged posts, I saw this review from ...
Browsing through my tagged posts, I saw this review from Jen of @/readingwithpugs (IG) for #RoxyBook.
Thank you for the review!
Haven’t read Roxy yet? What are you waiting for?
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People With This Condition Literally Feel What Others Are...
People With This Condition Literally Feel What Others Are Feeling
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: BRUISER 📚
“Mirror-Touch Synesthesia” is eerily similar to the power that Brewster has in BRUISER this week’s Book of the Week.
Many thanks to Symone Powell, who’s been gathering Book-of-the-week info to post!
January 12, 2022
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: BRUISER 📚 I wanted th...
📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: BRUISER 📚
I wanted the verse sections of BRUISER to have an angry beatnik feel. To achieve that, I directly modeled Brewster’s first point-of-view section after the most famous angry beatnik poet’s most famous work: Allen Ginsberg’s “HOWL”
Here they are side by side – can you see how I mirrored it?
