Issue 19 of Once Upon A Crocodile #ezine is now out and free to read. Fearuring MN Wiggins, Lyra, Robert Walton, Devan Erno, Robert Garnham, Lindsay K Ammons, Nancy S Koven, and Thomas J Young.
#humor #humour #funny #BookSky 💙📚 #writing #reading
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Writing Tip:
It's fun to have secrets in your story. It's fun to tease them to your reader. It's not fun to tease them forever. Eventually you have to let your reader in on the fun. Otherwise they're going to stop caring about that big dramatic reveal you have planned.
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Writing Tip:
Characters need time to acclimatize to other characters. It feels weird when two people instantly click and become buddies after literally a few seconds of conversation. It takes more than that to develop a good relationship.
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The Madman's Library - The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities From History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
An interesting addition to my TBR - a book about the weird #books in #history.
#tbr #BookSky 💙📚 #weird
if you're a fan of short stories, check out this deal!
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#booksky #books 6356 The Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose / Frank Muir (Guild 1990) 1159-page compendium from Caxton to Wodehouse, all linked by a particularly well-informed and itself humorous commentary by the droll old connoisseur. I learned a lot from many years of his radio comedy compilations
Thinking about a Veronica + urban legend starter pack—poets, vanished singers, haunted bands, half-true rumors. If you want in, reply and I’ll add you. Also taking ideas for the pack’s title and a short description. #urbanlegend #folklore
Comparing #ghost-hunting tools and methods used in the past and in the modern day:
#research #paranormal #supernatural #ghosts #paranormalinvestigations
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I really enjoyed this one too! Did you read The Bone Clocks?
When the heart When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe the wound with salt And let it sting Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird lean in the hole and sing A simple song like a tiny bell And let it ring Michael Leunig (1945-)
When the heart
is cut or cracked or broken
Do not clutch it
Let the wound lie open
Let the wind
From the good old sea blow in
To bathe the wound with salt
And let it sting
-Michael Leunig
#Poetry 💙📚👀
When you are working on ur books, did it ever go through your head to adapt your novels into a manga, webtoon or graphic novel?
Even if my book isn‘t published yet, I just wanna do exactly this: create a manga adaption on my own.
But I don’t think that I have the skills and perseverance.
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To all writers trying to break in, check out the #WritersoftheFuture contest. This year's winners are currently out in Hollywood for the weeklong writing workshop that is the prize for winning. I was a winner last year and it was the most amazing experience. Follow on the WOTF blog #writersky 🪐📚💙
a little orange fox head on a yellow background. Text reads: A Life in Too Many Margins is being featured in The Wueer Writer Newsletter on April 14th, 2026 http://thequeerwriter.milotodd.com
The Queer Writer is a great resource for weekly queer book releases, you should totally check it out! thequeerwriter.milotodd.com
Just 4 more days until A Life in Too Many Margins releases! 🌈📚
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#BookSky #ALifeinTooManyMargins #IndieBooks #DisabledWriters #QueerAuthors
A screenshot of A House of Mirrors at number one in the Free Historical Mysteries chart on Amazon UK. Celebrating while it lasts - however long that is!
Heehee made it! Just one more day to grab your FREE ebook of A House of Mirrors and find out about life at 221B Baker Street from Mrs Hudson’s point of view! mybook.to/MrsHudson1 #sherlock #booksky #freeread #bookbargain #historicalmystery
"You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother"
- @dansheehan.bsky.social
Eh, @allgoodbookshop.co.uk? Eh?
#booksky #books #bookshop #readbooksyouswines
He is best known for his two-act play “Waiting for Godot,” famously critiqued as a staged drama in which nothing happens, twice. That was Becket’s point. He wrote novels, plays, poetry, and essays, all characterized by linguistic experimentation and bleak, preposterous humor. The Swedish Committee that awards the Nobel Prize said Becket received the 1969 Nobel in Literature “for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.”
Samuel Becket, 1973 Photo credit: John Haynes Image source: National Portrait Gallery (UK)
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
-The Irish writer who saw the absurd in everyday life, Samuel Becket, born on this day in 1906
#WriterSky #BookSky #Drama #Godot #History #BOTD
🌃SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN🌃
We are thrilled to announce that our third issue, titled The End of the World, is now open for submissions! 📚✒️
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#literarymagazine #writingcommunity #callforsubmissions #getpublished #dystopia #booksky
Automatic #writing is claimed to be a method of communicating with #spirits, or the #subconscious, using writing implements and often a #trance state.
More stuff about automatic writing here:
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#ghostly #research #occult #folklore #superstitiousSaturday
Cover of novel Moby-Dick from Vintage Books with cameo of Herman Melville in top right hand corner.
“God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.”
A parallel thematically with Frankenstein published 33 yrs earlier…
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What's up, y'all! What a great day to read more #indiebooks! The #NarratessSale is running through the weekend at indiebooks.sale! #IndieApril 🌈✨
Come with me on a journey of "I cannot believe books this good exist" as I tell you about some of my faves that you can get for real effin cheap! 📚💙
Back in the murk of my childhood I often had 9 books on the go. Can't say I have the concentration levels for it now!
The covers of 9 books on sale in the Indie Book Sale, 11-13 April. Fantasy, Sci Fi & Horror
The Narratess sale is here!📚
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It turns out yesterdays potions destroyed in the bat fiasco were experimental
If I grow extra limbs tails or an additional head, I’ve been informed it’s a learning experience 👀
Presently she has no cure
Excellent 😳
The bats fate concerns me #witchsky #booksky #pumpkinthecat #darkaesthetic
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A crow named Torment by Silas Bischott. The book cover shows a crow staring into a mirror, and sees a human face reflected at her
A Crow Named Torment
By Silas A. Bischott
Read this if: You want an unpredictable wonderland style journey into the mind and dreamworld of a sentient crow (plus a vampire and a woman stuck in the crow’s head).
#bookreviews #indybooks #fantasybooks #sffbooks #booksky
Illustration by H.J. Ford from The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, New York, 1906. #artsky #booksky
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