Today, in 1912, and very close to midnight, the RMS Titanic grazed past the iceberg that would eventually sink her, nearly three hours later. Tomorrow will be the 112 anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Most of us have a romanticized perception of the Titanic, thanks to the James Cameron movie. But the Titanic […]
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This is Part Eight of a series: Book bundles are enormous fun. You get a stack of books for a price that is usually much less than you would pay if you bought each book individually. Retailers will also bundle books — usually all the books in a series. Google Play and Amazon do this
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An update on a very old post! (As this site goes back twenty years now!) –t. Fairies, or the Fae, have multiple sources within mythology, and come in a vast range of shapes and sizes, from small pixie-type creatures to human-sized ones, from fair to ugly, to human in guise, to demonic-looking. Fairies can
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I have the rest of the dates for the Crossroads Magic blog tour. March 25 Fang-tastic Books March 26 I Smell Sheep March 27 Lisa’s World of Books March 28 Roxanne’s Realm March 29 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom April 1 The Book Junkie Reads April 1 The Bookworm April 2 Momma Says:
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It’s out! Phew…! Crossroads Magic is now available on all retail bookstores and on mine, too. And that’s not all! Barnes & Noble have picked up the book and will be promoting it on all their Nook devices throughout the end of March and the first half of April. 🙂 If you’re a Nook reader,
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My mum is visiting from Australia at the moment. She’s super patient with me, as I’ve got work pouring in from all angles. So she sits in the recliner next to me and reads (my books!), while I work. Only, yesterday, she put her finger in between her current pages, and looked at me. “How,
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This is Part Seven of a series: I suspect that many readers are familiar with acquiring books via BookFunnel promos. StoryOrigin is similar. Authors collectively provide a book each, sometimes more than one, for a group promotion. A landing page is built with all the books in the promotion on it. Then each author in
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An update on the 2011 post Elves as they appear in modern fantasy fiction were plucked from Norse mythology, where there were High and Dark Elves, and the Dark Elves were the forerunners of Dwarves as we know them in fantasy fiction. But Wood Elves were not part of Norse mythology. They have evolved from
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If you’re reading this post as an email and the formatting is weird, try the blog post instead. In today’s update: I’m Aiming for Less Emails In a further attempt to reduce emails, I’m also going to go back to grouping news items together once a week. The prevailing wisdom for many years has been
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A quick note to let you know that Cancer Curated has been chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Top Indie Favorite. You can check it out among the other top picks here. If it doesn’t show on the top page, you can choose the “biography” category at the left, or pick the “See All”
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