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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce 12-year-old Liam is tall for his age, and is often mistaken for an adult. He has a fascination with thrill rides and theme parks, so Liam jumps at the chance to try out a new one involving a rocket. But the problem is that Liam enters the Greatest Dad Ever
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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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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan With the third book in the Riyria Revelations series, Nyphron Rising, Michael J. Sullivan has done it again. He has managed to write a story with a momentum that keeps the pages turning and the heart racing, keeping you itching to know what happens
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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 Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett In The Warded Man, Brett had introduced a world in which demons rise from the ground each night, slaughtering anyone they can catch. And each night the people of the land cower behind the only defenses that they have, specialized wards that the demons are unable to cross.
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Killer by Dave Zeltserman You’d think that being in the head of a serial cold hearted killer would be an unpleasant and disturbing experience. Well it is and it isn’t. Leonard’s life is told by alternating from the present to key points in the past. Zeltserman’s writing is a wonderful example of show don’t tell.
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Nightchild (Chronicles of the Raven 3) by James Barclay To start, let me say that I LOVED this book. Definitely the best of the series, and could be on my list of all time favorites. This was mostly due to how Barclay has evolved the Raven, and how they have changed over the course of
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan A young woman living in the middle of a zombie-infested forest begins to suspect that her village’s government has been lying to the people. Argh, my friends. Just… argh. The only thing I hate more than writing a negative review for a book whose author is
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Many speakers, consultants, and small business owners alike feel confident with communicating their message orally. They can spout their message in an elevator speech with the accuracy of a scientist. But when it comes to putting it on paper, some grown men & women end up crying like a baby. Through speaking and writing, I
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Many speakers, consultants, small business owners alike feel confident with communicating their message orally. They can spout their elevator speech with the accuracy of a scientist. But when it comes to putting it on paper, some grown men & women end up crying like a baby. It’s not hard once you know exactly what to
Death with Interruptions by José Saramago