5 Stars!
Summary from Amazon:
[Earth has been almost silent for forty years. The apocalypse left behind only fragments of civilisation, surrounded by a sea of barbarism.
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Author Earnings Report May 2015
Welcome to the May 2015 Author Earnings Report. This is our sixth quarterly look at Amazon’s ebook sales, with data taken on over 200,000 bestselling ebooks. With each report over the past year and a half, we have come to see great consistency in our results, but there is always something new that surprises us.
Book Review – More Than This
Book: More Than This
My rating: 4.5/5
Genre: Young Adult
Length: 480 pages
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.
Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.
How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?
As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?
The 6 Things I Learned After Publishing My First Book
by Shelly Sanders (based on her personal experience, which I felt was an interesting take on publishing)
1. Signing with a traditional publisher is worth the time and sweat it takes to be accepted.
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Ten Quote Tuesday (#40)
Welcome to another installment of Ten Quote Tuesday! If your creative juices have trouble flowing today, then read these quotes to nudge awake the sleeping muse.
How to Develop Realistic Characters
Today, I thought it would be fun to talk about what makes a fictional character believable. It’s easy to describe what a character looks like and give her/him/it a cool name. But how do you make your readers care about what happens to that character? What’s the secret to bringing your characters to life?
Book Review – Partials
Book: Partials by Dan WellsGenre: YA, Dystopian
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population.
How Writers Can Make Gatekeepers Work for Them
The gatekeepers who once decided what art was worth publishing are losing relevance. We need not kneel at their feet to gain entrance to the public square. There are paths in everywhere.
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Book Review – Mud, Sweat, and Tears
My grandmother and I both share similar tastes in reading–classics and biographies/autobiographies. This Christmas, she gave me a copy of Bear Gryll’s autobiography, Mud, Sweat, and Tears.
Why You Should Encourage Your Children to Tell Stories
When my brother and I were little, our mum would snuggle up next to us and say: “All right, tell me a story.”
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