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May 14, 2014
Gone Girl Review—Five Minute Books
Hold on to your butts for one of the most mystifying thrillers I’ve ever read. This is Five Minute Books. I’m Garrett Robinson, independent author of Rebel Yell. Welcome back to Five Minute Books, where I promise to tell you everything you need to know about popular books in five minutes or less. It’s bestseller [...]
May 12, 2014
Viewpoint
Hello, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. Sometime over the weekend I passed five hundred Twitter followers. If you’re one of them, you’re awesome. If you’re not, here’s my Twitter. Some of you are like, “Five hundred? That’s not impressive.” WELL IT’S IMPRESSIVE TO ME. And that’s actually what I want to talk to [...]
May 9, 2014
Realism in Storytelling
Hello, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. So, one thing I wanted to do when I resurrected my daily vlog and started giving updates almost every day was to talk about my writing. And then I started talking about life and philosophy and book reviews and stuff, and it’s all been great, but I [...]
May 7, 2014
WhiteSpace Review—Five Minute Books
Today’s book might make you lose a little faith in humanity, but I promise you it’ll be worth it. This is Five Minute Books. I’m Garrett Robinson, independent co-author of the Realm Keepers series. Welcome to Five Minute Books, the show where I promise to tell you everything you need to know about popular books in [...]
May 5, 2014
Editing Pet Peeves: The Comma Splice
Hello, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. I asked my friends on social media recently what I should vlog about next, and one person suggested editing pet peeves, so I’m going to talk about my biggest editing pet peeve in the world: bad books. Oh my God, I hate editing bad books. Urgh. It’s just [...]
May 2, 2014
How To End Any Religious Debate
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. Hey, so…you know what’s a fun, uncontroversial subject to talk about? Religion. Nobody fights about that, right? No, of course the truth is that religion is one of the most controversial subjects that’s ever existed. While it’s a lie to say religion has been the cause of [...]
April 30, 2014
The Goldfinch Review—Five Minute Books
What happens when a needle of a good book gets lost in the haystack? I’ll tell you in today’s Five Minute Books. I’m Garrett Robinson, independent author of the Realm Keepers series. Welcome to Five Minute Books, the show where I promise to tell you everything you need to know about popular books in five [...]
April 25, 2014
When To Eliminate Middlemen
Middlemen exist in every industry, and that’s nowhere more true than the arts. For the purposes of this piece, I’ll be using middlemen even though they can just as often be women. In the area of filmmaking alone, I can think of a few middlemen off the top of my head: Script Readers stand between [...]
April 21, 2014
Marketing Funnels
Hello Rebels, and welcome back to my life. So in case you haven’t already heard, I’ve been doing a new book review show. It’s called Five Minute Books and you can go watch it by clicking here. I really, REALLY love this show, and it’s only going to get better. It’s a great new marketing [...]
April 18, 2014
GAME OF THRONES: BOOKS VS. SHOW
Good morning Rebels, and welcome back to my life I don’t make much of a secret about the fact that I’m not a big fan of Game of Thrones, and people often wonder why. Is it because George R. R. Martin seems to take such perverse delight in killing off all of our favorite characters? [...]
