What Do Readers Want: Exploring the Complexity of Books As a reader, we want to know many things about a book before, during, and sometimes after we read it. How long is it? What’s the target audience? Is it part of a series? How much do I have to pay for it and is there […]
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The Cyber Search; Hunting for Books to Read and How Do you read a specific book niche (i.e. cozy mystery, space opera, urban fantasy)? Do you have to sift through tons of books to find your next great specific read? How do you find books you’d like to read? Do you see something on Twitter
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Review of the Year –2022 Throughout 2022 I tracked and logged my progress in three areas: Writing, Exercise, and Work. I am primarily following James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, the process of answering 3 questions. What went well? What didn’t go so well? What am I working toward? This is my first self-review, and
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Magic Fantasy Novel My Kindle Vella serial published novel Sparrows Legacy plots the adventures of Tara (19) and Teng (14), siblings who survive the attack of their Matie, Trine “Sparrow” Sworden. They soon learn the reason for her brutal death is by their unknown Uncle Endric who usurped her promised rule as Pashier, in her
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JL NICH Blog Beats Internet Search Counter Surveillance Techniques for Authors. Writers do research and some of that research might raise a few eyebrows.
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JL NICH Blog Beats The Six Science Fiction Books I Want to Be Buried With. What are your favorite books of all time?
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JL NICH Blog Beats A Writer’s Keystone Habits. What are the keystone habits of a writer? What is a keystone habit?
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JL NICH Blog Beats Banishing Book-ache Blues; Becoming A Revisionary Writer: Should you be reading this article on revision and editing? Are you a writer? Check. Have you finished Step 1? Uncertain?
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As an author or storyteller, have you ever wondered where the Star Wars franchise, overly hairy, Chewbacca came from? Or who designed the magnificent Kraken creation from Clash of the Titans? What did you think about the amazing worms from Frank Herbert’s Dune? Did you find the lovely Borrowers made famous by author Mary Norton to be utterly fantastical?
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How can a writer go from Zero to Hero? What does that look like in a novel?
Have you ever said out loud ‘this is the best freak’n book’? That writer is a hero. But what did this novel give other books didn’t? How did the writer tap into your emotions (think The Hunger Games with Rue (author Suzanne Collins), or the last time Black Beauty sees his girlfriend Ginger (author Anna Sewell), or when Luke Skywalker shoots the photons into the Death Star, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (author George Lucas)? Perhaps the author built the climax to such a high pinnacle you felt each step as you read further (maybe not quite as literally as the Lord of the Rings with Frodo at the Mountain of Doom, but something like that) (author J. R. R. Tolkien)?
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