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Dane Cobain

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in Sutton Coldfield, The United Kingdom

June 11, 1989

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Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Dane Cobain (High Wycombe, UK) is a published author, freelance writer, poet and (occasional) musician with a passion for language and learning. When he’s not working on his next release, he can be found reading and reviewing books for his award-winning book blog, SocialBookshelves.com, while trying not to be distracted by Wikipedia. His releases include No Rest for the Wicked(supernatural thriller), Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home (poetry) Former.ly (literary fiction), Social Paranoia (non-fiction), Come On Up to the House (horror) and Subject Verb Object (anthology).

Cobain’s love of words grew from an early age, whether he was rewriting the lyrics to pop songs or teaching his elder siblings – maths and computer science Dane Cobain (High Wycombe, UK) is a published author, freelance writer, poet and (occasional) musician with a passion for language and learning. When he’s not working on his next release, he can be found reading and reviewing books for his award-winning book blog, SocialBookshelves.com, while trying not to be distracted by Wikipedia. His releases include No Rest for the Wicked(supernatural thriller), Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home (poetry) Former.ly (literary fiction), Social Paranoia (non-fiction), Come On Up to the House (horror) and Subject Verb Object (anthology).

Cobain’s love of words grew from an early age, whether he was rewriting the lyrics to pop songs or teaching his elder siblings – maths and computer science students at university – how to execute commands in MS-DOS, all before he hit double digits. He started writing at fourteen, and progressed from lyrics and music to journals, short stories and poetry before writing the first draft of an early novel whilst in lectures. He studied creative writing at London’s Roehampton University, earning a 2:1 bachelor’s degree before starting a career as a social media marketer.

It was this career in marketing, combined with his love for reading and writing, which led to the creation of SocialBookshelves.com, his book blog, which was recently ranked fifth in a list of the top literature blogs in the UK by Vuelio, and 37th in FeedSpot’s list of the 100 top book blogs on the planet. Through SocialBookshelves.com, he met Jesse James Freeman, the former VP of Community Management at Booktrope Publishing. Cobain’s debut novella, a supernatural thriller called No Rest for the Wicked, was released by Booktrope’s Forsaken imprint on June 11th 2015.

His second release, a collection of poetry called Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home, was released by Booktrope Editions in March 2016. Cobain performs his poetry at stand up nights, slams and open mic nights, and has memorised all of the 101 poems in the book. He can also recite the first chapter of No Rest for the Wicked from memory.

Cobain’s third book, a literary fiction novel called Former.ly, was released on June 11th 2016. It follows the story of the rise and fall of a social networking site for the dead. Users sign up to the site, create a profile that they populate with updates that only they can see, and then when they die, their profile goes live to the public. But there’s something sinister about the site – something that people are willing to kill for.

Former.ly was followed by a non-fiction book called Social Paranoia: How Consumers and Brands Can Stay Safe in a Connected World, which was released in August 2016. The year was rounded off with Come On Up to the House, a horror novella and screenplay, in November.

In 2017, Cobain quit his marketing job to focus on full-time self-employment as an author and freelance writer. He also released Subject Verb Object: An Anthology of New Writing, which features 18 pieces from different authors and which was collected by Cobain and edited by Dane Cobain and Pam Elise Harris. ...more

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	Former.ly: The Rise and Fall of a Social Network by Dane Cobain (Goodreads Author), Pam Elise Harris (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Rest for the Wicked 3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Driven by Dane Cobain (Goodreads Author), Pam Elise Harris (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come On Up to the House by Dane Cobain (Goodreads Author), Pam Elise Harris (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Paranoia: How Consumers and Brands Can Stay Safe in a Connected World 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subject Verb Object: An Anthology of New Writing by Dane Cobain (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Chris Gower , Michael-Israel Jarvis (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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either. It’s just been that everything else seems to have come along at the
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The good thing about this book was that it had a decent moral at the end of it. Keep your damn promises.
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So it turns out that December isn’t too late to read your least favourite book of the year. Perhaps a lot of that is my fault, though. I’ve read some of Austen’s juvenilia and thought it was terrible, but everyone always says that she’s one of those ...more
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No one in this story can tell the difference between male and female voices. And having someone climbing up your hair must be incredibly painful and potentially impossible. So yeah.
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This has been the first of these fairy tales where I didn’t feel as though the adaptation was missing anything. It wasn’t too bad, but I’ve also read better.
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Life, the Universe and Everything sees Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect stranded in prehistoric Earth, at least for a while. But things get better, and then worse, and then a little better - our heroes eventually find themselves trying to save the ...more
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If the cat ate the ogre when he’d transformed into mouse form, what would have happened if the ogre changed back inside the cat’s stomach? Hmm.
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This isn’t the best of the fairy tales in this little series, but it was decent enough. I’ve read better retellings of it.
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This was a fun little interpretation of the classic story, especially because of how crazy the fairy was in it. Another fun read.
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This is an interesting little memoir, not least because Patti Smith is a fascinating woman and it covers her love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe. At least, I think that’s his surname. I’ll be honest, I know nothing about him other than what I read ...more
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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

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“Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“It takes the average American four years of doctors' visits to spend as much time with their physician as they spend with their phone in a single day.”
― Emmanuel Fombu, The Future of Healthcare: Humans and Machines Partnering for Better Outcomes

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