![]() See, Sullivan’s most interesting story isn’t that of Hadrian Blackwater and Royce Melborn, the protagonists of Theft of Swords, which consists of Sullivan’s first two self-published novels, The Crown Conspiracy and Avempartha, and the eponymous pair behind The Riyria Revelations, it’s the story behind his success, of his rocky and self-driven path to publication, first under his own publishing label (ostensibly a self-published writer) and selling several thousand eBooks a month to signing a full-fledged publishing deal with a major New York City publisher (and potentially leaving tens- or hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on the table.) Michael J. It’s not about trolls or princesses, vanquishing evil or finding treasure (at least not in the literal sense), but it is a tale of perseverance and personal triumph, of overcoming obstacles that prove impossible for so many others. Sullivan has a story that every aspiring writer would love to tell. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments The year of reading dangerously![]() ![]() “It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.”Īndy Miller had the kind of life many people I suspect would recognise as being similar to their own. I’m famously bad at reading non-fiction, but I do like a book about books, so I was confident that there would be a lot for me to enjoy in this book – there was. The Year of Reading Dangerously is a book I have been aware of for a long time, but it was only recently I got around to buying a copy. I haven’t really got into listening to the podcasts regularly yet as I never seem to have time – reading, blogging, a P365 photography group on Facebook, working full time, sleeping argh! I need more hours. I expect the twitterers among you already follow Andy Miller (AKA ) writer and co-host of the Backlisted podcasts, if not you should. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Charles gannon fire with fire![]() ![]() In the end, it takes the keen insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. ![]() However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he's been given is anything but secret or safe. Riordan's mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient - enough so to have built a lost civilization. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon - a history-making clandestine project - and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Morgan llywelyn bard![]() ![]() As the situation in the country deteriorates, Henry's personal life becomes more complex. Henry, a supporter of the Republican cause but a political moderate and neutral observer by nature, moves with alacrity among the various factions, apparently enjoying journalistic immunity as he uses his pen to further the Irish cause and attack the British. Unfortunately, in her attempt to amalgamate her encyclopedic knowledge of Ireland with the fictional adventures of Henry Mooney, a journalist torn between the traditional demands of family and personal ambition and his commitment to his country, she produces a story that is as dense as an Irish bog and nearly as confusing to navigate. That Llywelyn knows her Irish history, culture, language and ambience is unquestionable. ![]() This volume begins in 1917 in the aftermath of the Easter Rising and carries through to the civil war and the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. ![]() Llywelyn's second novel in the series she inaugurated with 1916 (1998) furthers her investigation of Irish history by focusing on Ireland's struggle for freedom from Britain. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Other words for home warga![]() ![]() Give me a story that will revel in a nuanced understanding of what is home a story that gives us permission to search for it even when the proverbial They tell us we should already know our place and that's it, you only get the one. Give me a story that tells us it's okay to be more than one thing, that two different places don't exist in competition that you can love them both and it isn't a betrayal of one. ![]() No, if I were the questing type and I had my chance to demand things from the sky, I might say: Give me a story about the ways in which people are kind to one another the ways in which a community leans into kindness even while some people within it are sharp and cruel and fearful. Nor would I expect that book to be a deceptively easy-to-read middle grade novel, where reading just one more - maybe two more - okay, three, four, five - I guess I'm just reading now - sections is all too tempting. I wouldn't expect that book to be a verse novel of remarkable sensitivity. If I were the questing type, the type who might travel to the peak of a very high mountain and demand things of the sky, I might demand a certain kind of book. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Other Words for Home Author Jasmine Warga ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Blake snyder books![]() No Sale of Copyrighted Material or Sharing of Confidential Materialīlake Snyder never promises to teach you how to write brilliant works of high art that will stand the test of time and join the ranks of The Godfather and Citizen Kane. Posts Made by ( u/deleted) Accounts are Subject to Removal Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Memes, Etc Provide Descriptive/Informative Titles for Posts Screenplays MUST be properly formatted/Do not post your film without the screenplay. No Contest, Coverage or Service AdvertisingĬomplaints About Paid Feedback Must Include Script and Evaluations ![]() ![]() No Socks, Trolls or Shitposting, Spam or Off-Topic Postsĭon't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion. WIKI: FAQS & FORMATTING INFO AND RESOURCESĭo not personally attack fellow redditors respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis cosmic trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() For Lewis, as for Tolkien, such stories of derring-do, daunting quests, vistas populated by fantastic yet credible characters accomplished what mere philosophical argument could not. Tolkien hoped to reinvent for a 20th Century audience-an audience they felt was too easily subverted by rampant literary naturalism and modern scientism. “Romance” was Lewis’s catch-all term for the genre most congenial to the science fiction and fairy tale genre he and J. Lewis, 9 August 1939, in The Collected Letters of C. He replied whimsically: “Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without their knowing it.” (C. Lewis, had written to him about the provenance of his first space travel adventure, Out of the Silent Planet, a volume remarkably full of theological insight. Sister Penelope, a winsome, lifelong correspondent of C. ![]() ![]() They’ll also learn about the university of Jundi Shapur, which flourished fifteen hundred years ago in what is now Iran and which sounds so wondrous I can’t believe I’d never heard of it before. Readers will learn far more about Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved African taken to Barbados to work in sugar, or even Thomas Thistlewood, a white overseer who wrote with a kind of nauseating jocularity about the cruelties he inflicted on his charges. The longest passage by far is only fifty-seven words. Christopher Columbus gets mentioned, for example, on three separate pages. Relatively uninterested in kings and politicians, this is more of a Howard Zinn-style people’s history, albeit one which far more gently grinds its axe. Judge Adam Rex had some glowing things to say about it: Sugar Changed the World was knocked out in the first round, but it was up against the eventual winner, so that loss was no disgrace. I also have two holds that have just come in for books that I decided to read because of the coverage in the Battle. I have two more books to review from School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books. ![]() A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science ![]() ![]() ![]() " At this very instant the young Fairy came out from ![]() " This man had the misfortune to have a blue beard" "' What, is not the key of my closet among the rest?'" "' Am I come hither to serve you with water, pray?'" ![]() Images of the original pages are available through ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FAIRY TALES OF CHARLES PERRAULT***Į-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell,Īnd the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Teamįrom page images generously made available by With this eBook or online at Title: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, by Charles Perrault, et al The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, byĬharles Perrault, et al, Translated by Robert Samber and J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mauss was born on 5 June 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up in California, graduating from Oakland High School in 1946. ![]() A special conference on his work in Mormon studies was held in 2013 at California's Claremont Graduate University (CGU), the papers from which were subsequently published by the University of Utah Press in the format of a Festschrift, where he was honored as "one of the most prominent Mormon intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." Early life and family He was Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University and was the most frequently published author of Sociology works on Mormons during his long career. Armand Lind Mauss (June 5, 1928 – August 1, 2020) was an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion. ![]() |