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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Short Story – A Reflection of Life

As many of you know, I have a passion for prompts to spark my writing Muse. The last writers meeting’s homework was to write a story using these parameters: Setting: A Haunted house, Character: A police officer, Theme: Friendship POV: …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – National Science Fiction Day

The definition of science fiction is narratives based on imagined future scientific, or technological advances and major social, or environmental changes, which frequently portray space, or time travel and life on other planets. We are used to the main categories of …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Going into 2025 with Books, Braille and Tea.

As we are on the precipice of the New Year today, I wanted to say a huge and grateful thanks to all my followers. You make all the effort in maintaining and creating this blog so worthwhile. I am open …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – 2025 Blog Schedule

As many of your know I announce my blog schedule for the upcoming year around this time annually. As the past couple of years schedule has worked so well, I will be keeping the Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday and Wordsmith’s Collective …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Jolabokaflod

So today we celebrate Jolabokaflod, which is Iceland’s Yule Book Flood. The name translates to “Christmas Book Flood.” The tradition is the giving and receiving of new books, but also the joy of reading them together all day on Christmas …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – National Short Story Day

This week we will celebrate National Short Story Day on the 21st – the shortest day of the year! So grab a notebook and pen this winter solstice and enjoy some calm within the pre-Christmas chaos and write a short …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – My Year in Books

I always enjoy finding out what my reading year looked like. Goodreads creates a graphic of your year’s reading and tis is my 2024 (although I will probably finish up with one more to the mix). You can find it …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Presenter versus Panelist

It might seem early to some to begin planning for events in 2025, but with a multitude of opportunities available the more we plan ahead the easier it will be. I have received two confirmations for presenter and panelist position’s …

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Creative Edge Author Interview -James Bow

What enamoured you to science fiction and fantasy rather than other genres? My parents were both librarians and loved books, and my mother especially loved science fiction and fantasy, so much so that she would read to me from her …

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Creative Edge Press Release -Rox Burkey and Charles Breakfield

The Award-Winning and critically acclaimed writing duo, Burkey and Breakfield begin a new adventure inspired with hope! Destiny has a gift. Her brother, Valerian, believes in her but still must protect her. Her confidence is unshakeable, and her heart is …

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