@bookstodon Just a note that my first newsletter that some of you have signed up for will be coming out by the second week of January. However, owing to the fact that tinyletter is going to be shutting down, I'm porting everyone over to the announcement list I've set up on my hosted account. You'll be (if you're one of the subscribers) be getting an email with a link you need to click for consent.
Finished reading one short novel from Stephan Zweig's book: "Buchmendel" (Mendel The Book Dealer).
I love the story and wish to be at that café and have a conversation with someone like Mendel. #StefanZweig#Mendel#ClassicLiterature#Books#1920s#BookLovers
To everyone who complains about people who sort their books by color ( and anyone else who has books)- how do you sort your books? Because me personally, my books are not sorted. They are put any place I can find room.
“From words to prosperity.” 📖
“We see reading as part of living.” 📚
“From now on I would keep the lights on in my heart.” ❤️
“Books always make life more vibrant! Thank you.”
I’m not quite done with it yet but “Several short sentences about writing” by Verlyn Klinkenborg is already one of the best books about writing I’ve ever read.
You know this is an activist home - seeing my LFL & my protect old growth yard sign. I usually put up other items - at different times to support causes/movements that I believe & am active with. Our front yard is most photographed by strangers passing by 😊
I'm thinking about the recent romantasy turn in fantasy/romance novels and how the Cantata books may have fit, say, 10 years ago. But in that time I grew old and then decided I didn't want to force spiciness onto my novels and removed most of it.
I still think one of the spiciest scenes is when they are reading books together and...not a single piece of clothing was discarded. 😉
Slow burn indeed. Mind you, I enjoy reading #romantasy every now and again. I'm just not sure I'm the right person to be writing it. Spiciness is just too much work and I'd rather be focusing on other things!
There's a fair bit of romance in Cantata of the Fourfold Realms but most of it is low-key and organically building up.
"Mystery interwined in a pioneering supernatural world. It can easily make a fantastic bestseller."
Recent reader's words
"As I reach the edge of the opening, my blood pressure is rising. Never have I seen something like this before."
Marquise Gertain, THE HIDDEN FACE by M. I. Verras
Beth takes vintage books, hollows them out, and adds whimsical collage art from old-time magazines. I have several of my own, and they're always conversation starters. Great for gifts, too.