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Matthew Zorich
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Conspiracy of Crows Trilogy Update.
Hello!
It's time for a writing check-in! Union of Steel, book three in the Conspiracy of Crows trilogy, has officially hit 100,000 words. As for the scope of the novel, this is part one. I plan to complete part two, expanding this epic fantasy to be the largest of the three books.
This is an early draft, and I need to pause now to perform a world-building edit.
For the next few months, it will be r Read more of this blog post »
It's time for a writing check-in! Union of Steel, book three in the Conspiracy of Crows trilogy, has officially hit 100,000 words. As for the scope of the novel, this is part one. I plan to complete part two, expanding this epic fantasy to be the largest of the three books.
This is an early draft, and I need to pause now to perform a world-building edit.
For the next few months, it will be r Read more of this blog post »
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Bastards of Liberty (The Conspiracy of Crows, #1)
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Maiden of Storms (The Conspiracy of Crows, #2)
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Elegantly Wasted
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2010
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4 out of 5 stars 85 out of 100 Listened to this as an audiobook and found the story something I kept coming back to. What I found was that I kept finding reasons to keep listening to a book; it quickly moved up in my rankings. Full of adventure and wo ...more |
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4 out of 5 stars 88 out of 100 Working-class prose in a book written for your favorite gamer, this book is the onion in Shrek, and it has layers. My initial doubts stemmed from the fact that this book is this popular, and by the time I got to the Lamas ...more |
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Rating- 85 Four Stars **** out of 5 Highly recommended coming-of-age story built for multiple audiences. The book was found in the YA section of my local Barnes & Noble but belongs in the literary section as well. Nostalgic and thoughtful, with access ...more |
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4 Stars out of 5 Stars 84 out of 100 Mr. Woods approaches his writing with visual and character representation at the forefront, allowing the reader to dive into an accessible, real story with the ease of turning on their favorite Netflix show. Stando ...more |
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4 our of 5 Stars **** 85 out of 100 Dense, chewy prose that brings out Mr. Moore's extensive imagination onto the page, showing a depth of research and care for London and the English language not often seen in a world where brain-rot social media pos ...more |
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3 stars out of 5 75 out of 100 The plot had a few nice reveals, but overall, several factors in the book made it feel like a pilot for a broader series. The writer pulled the best of other fantasy and sci-fi series tropes that everyone loves, along wi ...more |
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“We are lost; waiting tables at Denny's or forgetting ourselves stripping on poles, or working at a coffee shop misplaced in history or slowly dying on the inside as a secretary or landscaping lawns out of desperation working jobs with no futures, like bartending. The next generation of teachers, historians, lawyers, police officers and civil engineers work at this bar because the money can not be passed up, when you’re drowning in debt. The world brings us to our knees and we service it because it nourishes us just enough to get by. We are tired and we don't understand why. We, the over educated searching for happiness at the bottom of the bottle.”
― Elegantly Wasted
― Elegantly Wasted
“You’ll know when to take revenge. It may take years, but you’ll know,” the old woman whispered. “You kept to the old ways, yes, you and your family. You did. I know who you prayed to: Jupitor, who gives us light and day; Sif, bringer of the harvest, change, and death; yes, and Striobog. During the winters here in our hills, he smiled at us. But you know who I see in you? Judith. You are a child of Judith, bringer of rain, growth, lightning, and storms. Let her guide you through this terrible time.”
― Bastards of Liberty
― Bastards of Liberty
“Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10”
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Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10”
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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“You’ll know when to take revenge. It may take years, but you’ll know,” the old woman whispered. “You kept to the old ways, yes, you and your family. You did. I know who you prayed to: Jupitor, who gives us light and day; Sif, bringer of the harvest, change, and death; yes, and Striobog. During the winters here in our hills, he smiled at us. But you know who I see in you? Judith. You are a child of Judith, bringer of rain, growth, lightning, and storms. Let her guide you through this terrible time.”
― Bastards of Liberty
― Bastards of Liberty
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