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Authors & Books & Comments

An SI Board Since November 2007

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Emcee: ManyMoose	Type: Moderated

Introduction Compact

ABC - Authors, Books, and Chat or Comments about Books We Love; Books We Hate; Books We Write; Books We'd Like To Write; Books We Wish Others Would Write: A discussion about books of all kinds, concentrating on but not limited to our own libraries and including new, mainstream and non-mainstream, in- and out-of-print, rare, antique, signed and unsigned, fiction and non-fiction. Of special interest are published contributors, and those who wish to be.

All discussion of the creative and creation side of books is particularly valuable.
Try the following links for great tips and ideas!

Why do old books smell the way they do? Answer here: (Hat tip to Tom Clarke)

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A site that formats online text so it's easier to read CLICK (Hat Tip to LindyBIll)

Mysteries by location :(Hat Tip to Mac Con Ulaidh)

If there's a book out there, here's where you can find it (Hat Tip to Tom Clarke): Book Finder

Forgotten Books (Hat tip to Stan)

Ten Best Books Sites On Line Hat tip to stockman scott and JohnM.

Sites that pay for writing Tips on Writing Short Stories(Hat Tip to Stan for both.)

Twenty online resources for free eBooks...(Hat tip to Glenn Peterson)

How much royalty do publishers pay authors? Hat Tip to Stan and SmoothSail both!

Link to a post by SmoothSail that all aspiring writers should read.
Link to ANOTHER post by SmoothSail that all aspiring writers should read.
Link to YET ANOTHER post by SmoothSail that all aspiring writers should read.

Link to an Ebook library Courtesy of Travis_Bickle

Fifty Writing Tools... Manymoose found this through Stumbleupon, a Firefox extension.

Common Errors in English Usage Manymoose found this through Stumbleupon, a Firefox extension.

Writing World Manymoose also found this through Stumbleupon, a Firefox extension.

smashwords.com An eBook publishing site found by ManyMoose.

We appreciate everyone's courtesy.

Typical initial posts will be a description of the book's content or attributes, why we love or dislike it, what's special about it, and recommendations to read or forget it.

Follow-up posts could lead anywhere, but should be focused on the books and authors, the effects of the books on our lives, and so forth.

All polite discussion on books will be allowed.

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9606	Many old books contain toxic chemicals – here’s how to spot them theconversation	Snowshoe	1	July 28
9605	Netflix Takes Liberties With Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full But the miniseries is st	Tom Clarke	-	May 6
9604	The Library of America gives Jimmy Breslin the treatment. Jimmy Breslin: Essent	Tom Clarke	-	April 22
9603	America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher? He's a bestselling writer with a	Tom Clarke	1	March 29
9602	Geez this board is dead. Dying pretty much like all of SI. JKRowling. I never r	Old_Sparky	2	February 18
9601	January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are so	Glenn Petersen	2	12/26/2023
9600	Mystery Novelist Unravels The Real Reason Young Progressives Now Hate JK Rowling	Tom Clarke	1	11/6/2023
9599	American Homer Celebrating the bicentenary of historian Francis Parkman, who pro	Tom Clarke	2	10/5/2023
9598	Another review of the Wolfe documentary. The concluding paragraph: While the do	Tom Clarke	1	9/26/2023
9597	Radical Wolfe: An Underwhelming Account of the Revolutionary Journalist The docu	Tom Clarke	2	9/21/2023
9596	The movie was horrible. The depiction of the pastor was wildly different from th	Tom Clarke	-	9/20/2023
9595	I had an ethics professor in college who went to same HS as Kesey. Kesey was a s	Thehammer	1	9/18/2023
9594	<i>Sometimes A Great Notion</i> The movie version was filmed in and	miraje	2	9/18/2023
9593	Yep Bonfire another great book - didn't think the movie did it justice. Thou	Thehammer	-	9/18/2023
9592	Yes, great book, great story, vividly told. I can still picture Ken Kesey, weari	Tom Clarke	1	9/18/2023
9591	He also documented the start of hippidom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Wik	Thehammer	-	9/17/2023
9590	How Did He Get Away With It? A new documentary film delves into the secrets of T	Tom Clarke	-	9/15/2023
9589	The Journalist and the Billionaire What did an old Establishment guy like Walte	Glenn Petersen	1	9/13/2023
9588	Spotify to Offer Paying Subscribers Free Audiobook Trial Audio streamer to test	Glenn Petersen	-	9/8/2023
9587	When Naomi Klein Realized People Regularly Confused Her With Naomi Wolf, She Wen	Tom Clarke	-	8/23/2023
9586	Just finished "Nothing to Lose" by J A Jance. Great read.	Brumar89	-	7/8/2023
9585	Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. A prominent au	Glenn Petersen	-	7/1/2023
9584	How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published New York Times June 26	Glenn Petersen	-	6/27/2023
9583	Virginia Woolf in her diary on Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book … the boo	Tom Clarke	-	6/19/2023
9582	A.I. human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook PUBL	Glenn Petersen	1	6/18/2023

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