The hardest part of bringing a book to life isn’t the editing. It’s the removing. It’s cutting the words you laboured over, the sentences you loved, the little turns of phrase you tucked away. It’s looking at your darlings, your clever lines, your beautiful moments, your 'surely this has to stay' sentences, and realizing that … Continue reading Killing my darlings one by one…
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Anyone else?
My brain will happily invent an entire fictional kingdom at 2am but will refuse to come up with the name of a perfectly normal character.
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“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” Jules Verne (French novelist, poet, and playwright)
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The Cinder City Embers
In the war-torn remains of America, lies Cinder City, where every child of eighteen is forced to endure the Harvest of Embers—a cruel reminder that in the eyes of the Authority, freedom and power are privileges reserved for only the purest bloodlines behind the golden gates. For Ezra, a hidden Ember within the outlying Rings … Continue reading The Cinder City Embers