Sponsored by The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton. Published by Graydon House Books. To quote Albus Dumbledore, “It is our choices… that show what we…
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Month: April 2019
BOOKMARKED | Chapter 23: Romance in Books
Welcome to BOOKMARKED, a weekly discussion liveshow featuring Hailey (Hailey in Bookland), Zoë (ReadbyZoe), and Hannah (A Clockwork Reader). Join us every Friday night at…
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Redux: Revelry
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You…
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Emotional Writing: One Surprising Method for Creating Emotion in Your Readers
As a writer, you’ve probably learned that story is not about what happens. Rather, it’s about how the events affect the protagonist. The plot points…
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A Storm Is Blowing
John Ruskin, Study of Dawn, 1868 It’s said the British never stop remarking on their weather. How will they cope in decades to come, when…
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Writing Prompt: The Secrets We Bury
I recently finished a novel where a character hiding in a secret panel in an old house had lost consciousness and died. The only person…
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Books I Want to Reread!
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Fund This Awesome Fat-Positive Magazine: FATVENTURE MAGAZINE, Volume 2.
As soon as this badass Kickstarter showed up on my social feed this morning, I knew I needed to highlight it. It’s rare to see…
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Re-Covered: Not So Quiet … Stepdaughters of War
In her new monthly column Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. When it was published in 1929, All Quiet on…
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The Key to Writing Descriptions That Capture a Scene
Have you ever come across a line of poetry that was so clear, you could taste the description as you read it? Or a paragraph…
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