Tag: Bookish
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Things Publishers Need to Stop Doing Before I Lose My Mind!
Sprayed Edges I love a special copy, one to beautifully display on my shelf with detailed artwork. However, the solid sprayed edges on every single copy… it’s giving tacky! I talked about how this diminishes the point of a sprayed edge, making books less special. It’s also usually not very well done and makes the…
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Fantasy Characters I Wouldn’t Trust With My Grocery List
Lysander Au Lune – Red Rising I don’t need to explain. Backstabber, loser, traitor, Roque 2.0 but I could at least trust Roque with a grocery list. I am convinced Lysander would be so bored that he would utilize weaponized incompetence and not even try to look at the entire aisle. I wanted pizza sauce,…
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Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney – A mysterious island with a bunch of secrets ends with an unforgettable plot twist
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney $14 average Amazon, KU supported Genre: Thriller. Fiction Standalone Rated 3.6 Series Average on Goodreads My Rating: Full review with spoilers Snipet Beautiful Ugly, a book described like a cat and mouse thriller after a devastated husband gets sent to a Scottish island to focus on overcoming his grief and…
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New Achievement! Jeff Hays to be Princess Donut in Peacock’s Dungeon Crawler Carl! But will that be the only role?
Other Characters While Jeff is confirmed to play Princess Donut, other roles are being brought up that maybe he should also do! Mongo is not appalled! Characters like Mordecia and the AI are being discussed among Reddit if Jeff Hays would be appropriate to be cast for these roles as well. Since Mordecia changes every…
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Some of the Biggest Regrets Your Favorite Authors Have Made – Writing and Publishing Are Always Changing!
Brandon Sanderson Brandon Sanderson, author of best sellers like The Way of Kings and Mistborn. A very beloved author who recently got approved for a TV adaption of the Cosmere. Hooray! However, he stated he has a regret that he will be changing a major detail in the upcoming series. In Mistborn, Vin, the main…
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Research! An Invisible Topic that Other Authors Don’t Tell You About…
The Facts We start with a story idea. That can be: I want to write about Mars. It is obvious I will be writing about the red surface with no oceans. However, did you know Mars has the tallest volcano in the solar system? Its name is Olympus Mons and is more than double the…
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Have you Noticed? Bearded Characters more Popular in Movies rather than Books?
Cosplaying Has Become Harder I was talking to my husband about potential cosplays for an upcoming convention in September and DSNX26 (see you there!). However, coming up with characters for my husband was more than difficult as he has been growing his beard over the past 4 years. Needless to say, his beard is long…
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3 Generations of Authors Walk into a Bookstore – Sanderson, Hobb, and Cahill Celebrated in an Interview
It’s that Serious Brandon did a great job in doing both, serious questions, and comical. Some of the biggest advice given to new authors is to: Do your research! Do not rely on google when writing, utilize other books and research studies found in libraries and bookstores to understand the topic you would like to…
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Video-Game to Book Adaptions – Would it work if we flipped the scripts?
Setting and Characters I feel like if we were to rewrite the video game script, it would be easy to start with setting and characters and concept. Could we describe in great detail the setting? Maybe. We can always build the complexity of the characters and their issues. This would be a process that would…
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Your Reading Goals are Being Destroyed by Bad Habits!
Doom Scrolling / Social Media I am someone with an avid social media addiction, and I am easily influenced from time to time. As of June, I set a goal to limit my access to my personal social media accounts for the sake of my time and mental health, which means I have found upwards…