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Fuel Your Reading Habit and Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card

How would you like to win a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate? Well, Curiosity Quills is offering you the chance and all you have to do is purchase a copy of Colour Wielders. If you’re still not familiar with the book, you can look up my review or my interview with the author, …

Join #JuNoWriMo & Win Prizes

It’s true! Simply joining JuNoWriMo could win you free stuff. How cool is that? We know how tough it is to finish JuNoWriMo. You’re going to need strength, stamina, determination, and…chocolate! But never fear, we’re here for you. One of our awesome participants from last year, Vicki Trask offered to …

President

Monday Musings: My Bookish Nominees for President

Cruising around the internet, I found the Top 10 Fictional Characters We’d Like as U.S. President on Wired and thought I had to do my own bookish version (even though a few on the original list are from books). My Top 8 Bookish Characters for U.S. President Lena Lowell from …

Writing resources

Review: The Word-Loss Diet (Writing Craft) by Rayne Hall

The Word-Loss Diet (Writing Craft) by Rayne Hall January 2nd 2013 by Scimitar Press Review by Fel Wetzig What’s the most common thing I remember writing on people’s manuscripts and essays over the years? “Wordy” Whether the sentence is from an academic article or a fiction manuscript, if it trips …