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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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Click here to submit a few paragraphs of your writing to this website, and it will tell you which famous author you write like.
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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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9617	Farewell to Mario Vargas Llosa, the end of an era for Latin America’s literary l	Tom Clarke	1	April 14
9616	Fun classics puzzle TEST YOUR MEMORY OF THE CLASSICS! (Guess which novel each l	Stan	1	April 13
9615	For anyone interested in the Titanic, this novel was written in 1898, 14 years b	Stan	2	February 19
9614	On February 26th, Amazon is discontinuing the ability to download and transfer K	Stan	-	February 17
9613	Harper Lee's only recorded interview about To Kill A Mockingbird given in 19	Stan	2	February 16
9612	My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism Let's make New Journalism n	Tom Clarke	-	January 14
9611	[youtube video]	Tom Clarke	-	January 5
9610	What's entered the public domain today? A lot of these are video or audio p	Stan	2	January 1
9609	Nothing is quite as grim as The Road. Blood Meridian comes close. Try the Borde	Tom Clarke	-	11/25/2024
9608	The only thing I read of his was The Road. His descriptive powers are amazing, b	Stan	-	11/22/2024
9607	Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved	Tom Clarke	-	11/22/2024
9606	Many old books contain toxic chemicals – here’s how to spot them theconversation	Snowshoe	1	7/28/2024
9605	Netflix Takes Liberties With Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full But the miniseries is st	Tom Clarke	-	5/6/2024
9604	The Library of America gives Jimmy Breslin the treatment. Jimmy Breslin: Essent	Tom Clarke	-	4/22/2024
9603	America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher? He's a bestselling writer with a	Tom Clarke	1	3/29/2024
9602	Geez this board is dead. Dying pretty much like all of SI. JKRowling. I never r	Old_Sparky	2	2/18/2024
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

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