A December giveaway for Facebook fans of The Reporter and The Girl!
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A December giveaway for Facebook fans of The Reporter and The Girl!
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Issue number 5 from The Paperbook Collective is now available. Download yours … or better yet, purchase a copy :)
Well, here it is folks.
Despite the world’s best efforts, Issue Five of The Paperbook Collective is here for your viewing pleasure!
Without further ado…
THE DECEMBER ISSUE!
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The Paperbook Collective Issue Five 2013
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The Paperbook Collective Issue Five 2013
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It has been an absolute honour and a privilege, once again, to be entrusted with the publishing of such incredible work.
I am continually amazed at the diversity of work that is submitted each month, no two pieces are the least alike. It has been wonderful to see how people have interpreted the ‘Culture’ theme, I have had a fascinating insight into some incredible cultural phenomenon’s across the globe.
It has been quite a difficult week for me over here in my little corner of the globe, but I am thrilled to finally publish the very last issue of The Paperbook Collective for 2013.
To…
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This is so cool! This new website, That Part Where, is a great place for authors to promote their books and for readers to find new books. Take the path through Kevin’s post to find out more :)
My feature at That Part Where is live now, and looks great! To reiterate, at this site you get to highlight a scene from your book — any scene at all — set it up with text that you write, and link to a purchase site and other places where you have a web presence. With any luck, someone new finds your book and buys it.
The good folks at That Part Where also do some promoting for you via their Facebook page and Google Ads.
All for $10.
Let me know what you think, and spread this around too! Reblog this post, tweet it, tell your ma, tell your pa, sing it from the nearest hilltop!
You get my heartfelt appreciation if you do.
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A fun (and interesting) post on the meeting of high brow and low brow culture through the work of Martin Amis. [I admit that I have never read anything by Amis. Well, I did start to read a short story once, but his long and graphic description of a pilot pooping in his pants put a damper on my interest in reading more.]
By Dr Alistair Brown, Durham University
An amusement arcade is perhaps the last place you would expect to find someone like Martin Amis, one-time enfant terrible of English literature and formerly respectable Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Notoriously witty, erudite, baffling, and perhaps a little bit unpleasant, it’s hard to imagine this vocal mouthpiece chuntering at a game of Space Invaders rather than at the literary establishment, bashing big red buttons rather than his keyboard.
However, in the early years of the 1980s, Martin Amis did indeed play Space Invaders, even writing a little-known strategy book about it, Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines, a work whose “shameful presence” was revived by Mark O’Connell in an article in 2008. When Nicolas Lezard of The Guardian reminded the mature Amis of the…
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Recently good friend and fellow blogger John W. Howell had a short story published in an online zine, The Paperbook Collective. (Okay, it was back in August, but at my age, it feels just like yesterday.) I was intrigued by the old-fashioned typeface used in the zine and the seemingly quirky personality of its creator (she made a Christmas out of books). So I decided to purchase a copy of the issue. Here’s what I got in the mail, all the way from Australia.
The magazine, a card, and a bookmark! 
Up close and personal with the magazine. 
And a cool card that I might keep for myself, but display for others to enjoy :) 
And a cool bookmark! One cannot have too many of those! 
And of course, the short story. I encourage all my readers to immediately head over to The Paperback Collective and start perusing the past and current issues. Even better, click here and purchase hard copies of The Paperbook Collective and support Jayde Ashe in her effort to publish good writing and art work.
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Kudos to Kevin Brennan for his relentless search for websites on which to promote his latest novel, Yesterday Road. This is from the About page of his recent find, BookPinning.com: “Our mission is to support and connect book lovers everywhere!”
I found this site in my wanderings and decided to give it a try. It’s called BookPinning.com, and for free it will feature your book cover image and link of choice (e.g., to Amazon). There are also some paid options, like Book of the Day, which apparently gives you a larger image at the top of the page.
Every little bit helps, I’m thinking. Check it out!
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Kudos to Kevin Brennan for his relentless search for websites on which to promote his latest novel, Yesterday Road. This is from the About page of his recent find, BookPinning.com: “Our mission is to support and connect book lovers everywhere!”
I found this site in my wanderings and decided to give it a try. It’s called BookPinning.com, and for free it will feature your book cover image and link of choice (e.g., to Amazon). There are also some paid options, like Book of the Day, which apparently gives you a larger image at the top of the page.
Every little bit helps, I’m thinking. Check it out!
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Please take BREVITY’s lead and check out Essay Daily’s Advent calendar of essays.
If you haven’t yet discovered the Advent calendar of essays over at Essay Daily, let us be the first to show you the way. Smart thinkers who write well explore various facet of the form, each and every day of Advent.Our favorites so far:
Pam Houston extolling the virtues of Rick Reilly’s Sports Illustrated profile of O.J. Simpson, suspected murderer and golf addict.
Michael Martone’s experimental look at the fictive essay, Billy Pilgrim, and Vonnegut.
And Ander Monson’s Short Lessons in Hybridity.
Well that’s three out of four, and the fourth, from Phillip Lopate himself, is pretty nifty as well. Bookmark the site — they’ll be adding new gifts every day for a few more weeks.
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Francis writes an interesting post about the choice of self-publishing. Traditional publishing seems to have less and less to recommend itself as time goes by (and I get older and older) …
I promised myself that I would blog about the benefits of self-publishing just as soon as I had passed what some sources cite ( ) as a benchmark – the selling of more than 250 copies of my self-published novel, Disappearing in Plain Sight.
Well – I’ve made it past the average and I feel pretty good. Heck – I feel totally pumped and I just had to get up and do a happy dance around the room before I could go on.
A big shout out to all the wonderful people who stopped by my table to chat and purchase a copy of Disappearing in Plain Sight, at the Thunderbird Mall Christmas Craft Sale, over the past weekend. You certainly helped push me over the top of that magic number. Santa had a longer line-up but I had great fun talking with people about my book and…View original post 624 more words
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Here is the 22nd installment of Ten Top Lists of What Not to Do by Marie Ann Bailey of 1WriteWay at http://1writeway.com and John W. Howell of Fiction Favorites at http://johnwhowell.com. These lists are simu-published on our blogs each Monday. We hope you enjoy.
10. If you are traveling with your dog by car, refrain from putting your pet in a pet taxi on the roof because there’s no room inside. At best, it will be a short trip once you realize that the laws of motion sickness dictate a downward flow over your windshield. At worst, given your heartless demeanor your family may decide to strap you to the car’s roof on the way home.9. If you are traveling with your dog by car, avoid letting your dog drive, no matter how tired you may be and how good a driver you think he is. At best, your dog will insist on making frequent stops at every fire hydrant he sees. At worst, your dog will confuse the stop and go lights at intersections since they can’t distinguish between red and green, and you will wind up having to explain to your insurance company and the police how your unlicensed operator dog wound up in your driver’s seat with the keys in its paw.
8. If you are traveling with your dog by car, do not put your dog in the front passenger’s seat wearing sunglasses and clothes just so you can use the carpool lane. It doesn’t matter how much your dog might look like your spouse. Chances are you’ll be pulled over by a traffic cop who will then take a photo of your dog, put it up on Facebook tagged with your spouse’s name (which you were stupid enough to give), and you’ll have divorce papers or worse waiting for you when you get home.
7. If you are traveling with your dog and planning to stay at hotels, be sure the hotel will accommodate pets. A barking dog is bad enough in a pet-friendly hotel; but in a non-pet-friendly hotel, at best, you’ll be charged double for disturbing your neighbors. At worst, you and your dog may have to take shelter at a shelter.
6. If you are traveling with your dog and staying at a pet-friendly hotel, do not think that just because the hotel is pet friendly, everyone else is. At best, some guests may just asked to be removed from your immediate vicinity due to the incessant (but to your ears, endearing) yapping of your young pug. At worst, you and your dog may wind up like #7, taking shelter in a shelter.
5. If you are traveling with your dog by plane, don’t think that just because you taught Hugo, your Great Dane, how to roll up into a ball, you can claim him as carry-on baggage. At best, Hugo won’t fit under the seat and you’ll have his head in your lap for the whole flight. At worst, the airport won’t be deceived by your efforts and will have the TSA examine you for other hidden dogs.
4. If you are traveling with your dog by plane and your dog actually does fit into a soft carry-on bag, do not assume that the flight attendant will appreciate your frequent requests for water, doggie biscuits (because the ones you had on you were confiscated by TSA), or wee-wee pads. At best, the flight attendant might simply douse you with water and suggest that your dog lick it off you. At worst, the attendant will be so smitten with your Pomeranian and its pink bow, she will offer to take her to the galley to feed her and that will be the last you see of either the attendant or your dog.
3. If you are traveling with your dog by train, do not think that all the other passengers will find it entertaining if you let your dog run up and down the length of the train car for exercise. At best, your dog might get tired from all the running and you won’t be able to coax him off the train when you reach your destination. At worst, you might find both of you dumped off at the next station, hundreds of miles from your destination as the Siberian winter sets in.
2. If you want to take a cruise with your dog, do not try to pass your dog off as a service animal in order to sidestep the cruise line’s no pet policy. While your dog might do quite well at acting the part of a service animal, chances are you will forget which disability you chose. At best, cruise line staff might start following you around, suspicious that at one moment you claim to be deaf and the next you’re singing along to music from your iPod. At worst, you might find yourself set in a dinghy tethered to the stern of the ship, while your dog gets to stay on board and play with the cruise line staff for the rest of the trip.
1. If you are traveling with your dog on a pet-friendly cruise line, take precautions to make sure the cruise line stays pet-friendly. For example, do not allow your dog to jump into the pool with the other passengers just because your dog loves to swim. At best, you’ll be made to clean the pool by yourself. At worst, you may find yourself taking a swim that is a bit longer than across the pool.
Marie at 1 Write Way 