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Beth Kendrick’s chick lit novels are always light, fun and easy to read (my reviews of The Pre-Nup and Nearlyweds), and Second Time Around was no exception. I love how Kendrick can develop solid and sympathetic characters in a short amount of time. It’s easy to fall in love with the four women in this
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This is an amazing book that in just four months enabled me to complete a novel I have been agonizing over for six years, write two eco guidebooks from scratch, and spend a lot more time with my family instead of writing all the time. Not only that but I have already found a publisher for both guidebooks, and two New York agents have asked to see my novel. Amazing!
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Choosing what size to make your book can be simple or difficult depending on the kind of book you are writing. Most importantly, you need to consider what your readers will want and what size will make your book sell.
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King You ever find that you like a book more and more the longer you think about it? I didn’t overly love The Gunslinger (1982) [US] [UK] when I finished it, but the more I keep thinking about it, the more I really like what King
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Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12) by Jim Butcher Chicago’s only wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden soon finds himself in the middle of yet another battle. This time the Red Court of vampires has kidnapped a daughter that Harry didn’t know he had. Former flame and half-vampire Susan Rodriguez returns to break the news to Harry and get
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Too many novelists miss the chance to write powerfully, because they constantly stop to edit as they write. Learn to write without editing. Go back and edit later. Your work will be so much more vibrant and you will draw your reader right into the story.
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan I’ll admit, I have been disappointed with the paranormal YA novels I’ve read lately. I’ve read some great novels, but many of the hyped, popular novels that everyone else has loved have fell flat for me. I knew I wanted to read The Forest of Hands
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Book 1 (The Inheritance Trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin Firstly, our main character Yeine is by all counts not spectacularly beautiful or vastly talented in magic or anything we’d have become used to in the normal fantasy fare. She’s small, has brown skin and dark hair, cut short to her scalp. Her
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova To start with the good points: Holy cow, can Kostova write some gorgeous descriptive prose! Describing painting has to be second only to describing music in terms of difficulty, but Kostova is so good at describing the various artworks that she mentions that even I, with my extremely limited
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Dimiter by William Peter Blatty In 1973 in Albania, security chief Colonel Vlora the “Interrogator” works to break a prisoner suspected of being an American agent. He and his experts torture the Prisoner in ways the Spanish Inquisition would never of imagined, but the source of their assault never even screams once; instead he takes
