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[?]Stephen Cox Author » 🌐
@stephenwhq@mastodon.social

The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror at proofreader. Out Sept.

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    [?]Nick East (Indie Writer) » 🌐
    @NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art

    Self-promotion in progress 😁

    The Last Philosopher is a Fantasy/Attempted Comedy story that some have even compared to and

    My response to that comparison, is to go hide under the covers for a week with embarrassment 😊

    1€ Ebook. Help an to get to 100 sales, currently at 16, not for profit but to avoid the fees from D2D

    First part is available here: books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

    Alt...Animated cover of The Last Philosopher.

      [?]Lydia Conwell » 🌐
      @lydiaconwell@todon.nl

      When I first started uploading manuscripts for I used to get quite stressed about spelling mistakes.

      Now ... I don't care so much, especially when I see spelling mistakes in literally every printed novel I read.

      And when it's an older novel, that surprises me. Sure, they only created digital manuscripts for them in more recent times, but still, they've had a few decades to get it right!

      idk I suppose they don't have teams of people working in publishing. Probably it's just one person having to type up and spellcheck it all themselves.

        [?]Harry Dehrian » 🌐
        @harrydehrian@mastodon.social

        Book Promotion: First in a series on

        A collection of 87 for you. Read my

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          [?]A. Rivera » 🌐
          @bloodravenlib@mas.to

          Article mentions the local dynamic of two corrupt political parties that basically take turns governing the island. Not unlike the two U.S. political parties (gee, wonder where the colonials learned it from).

          Anyhow, reminded of book I read on the topic:

          > itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co

            [?]Blair » 🌐
            @EnglishTeacher@pixelfed.social

            This week’s #ThursdayBooksandBeer is taking me to an all too plausible near future of climate collapse and AI, via Helen Phillips’ new novel Hum (which is what they call the humanoid robots in this society). It’s accompanied by a ‘Resting My Eyes’ Oat Cream IPA, here at the Brunswick Brewroom of WA brewery Rocky Ridge. “But now the forest of her childhood was receding even in her memory. She needed to picture some other forest, not that particular forest, which was gone, burned.” #reading #literature #clifi #craftbeer

              [?]Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) [He/Him] » 🌐
              @golgaloth@writing.exchange

              will be graced by yours truly! Come along to the Artists' Alley and say hi! And buy some .

              @bookstodon

              A picture of me in a hat with my books, surrounded by the Find Us At Supanova splash, showing the dates of the event as Friday June 19th to Sunday June 21st.

              Alt...A picture of me in a hat with my books, surrounded by the Find Us At Supanova splash, showing the dates of the event as Friday June 19th to Sunday June 21st.

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                [?]offbeat amsterdam » 🌐
                @relay@offbeat.amsterdam

                In the Mouth of the Room #2

                Plein Theater, Saturday, July 25 at 08:30 PM GMT+2Saturday 25 JulyIn the Mouth of the Room #2Genre: A live composition of poetry, sound, and bodiesLineup: Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin Barrow | Line up tbaTime: 20:30 - 22:00 hrsTickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) | Regulier: €17,50 | Student/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50Tickets What does a room hold? And what does it refuse? What does it swallow and amplify? And if the room speaks back, do we answer? In The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute performance program where poetry, music, and movement unfold as a continuous act of listening. Across four artists, the stage becomes a living space, one that breathes and responds, and all who enter it become part of it. Each artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begins or ends, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A body interrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another, forming a single evolving landscape for the evening. The “mouth” is both metaphor and mec... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]Saturday 25 July

                In the Mouth of the Room #2

                Genre: A live composition of poetry, sound, and bodiesLineup: Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin Barrow | Line up tbaTime: 20:30 - 22:00 hrsTickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) | Regulier: €17,50 | Student/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50Tickets

                What does a room hold?
                And what does it refuse?

                What does it swallow and amplify?
                And if the room speaks back, do we answer?

                In The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute performance program where poetry, music, and movement unfold as a continuous act of listening. Across four artists, the stage becomes a living space, one that breathes and responds, and all who enter it become part of it.

                Each artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begins or ends, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A body interrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another, forming a single evolving landscape for the evening.

                The “mouth” is both metaphor and mechanism: a site of speech, but also of consumption and transformation. The room listens as much as it speaks. Together with the audience, the artists shape what can be said and shared, and what remains unsaid and unshared.

                This is an invitation to experience performance as something shared and unstable, where boundaries between disciplines dissolve, and where the audience is not outside the work, but within it.

                Attachment: https://www.plein-theater.nl/en/agenda/22312

                In the Mouth of the Room #2

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                Time: 2026-07-25 20:30:00+02:00 / 22:00:00+02:00

                [?]The Lily Cafe » 🌐
                @thelilycafe.com@thelilycafe.com

                Are Readers Like My Son Being Forgotten?

                Here we are at the start of yet another summer break. And, again, here we are at trying to find books for my son. I feel like the past few years have been a battle in trying to find something he’s even remotely interested in reading.

                Over the years, I’ve posted about this. Some really lovely bloggers and readers have stepped in with some fantastic suggestions. I’ve appreciated all of them. Some, he’s expressed an interest in. Most, he’s, unfortunately, said a quick “no” to without bothering to learn more about it. I guess the title has to be really catchy to him?

                My son is now between 6th and 7th grade, and I’m not even going to try to figure out how that even happened. He just finished his first year in a gifted program and is excited to walk an accelerated math path where he’ll be doing 7th and 8th grade math next year. He also finished English and History Honors with respectable grades, and his teacher was quite pleased with his work.

                This summer I gave him a few choices of what he can do. He picked reading for an hour a day. Of course, I’m mandating that they have to be new-to-him books that are around his reading level, which is a little higher than his grade level, so something at his grade level or higher, preferably. And of course that means now we need to find books. Why do I keep doing this to myself?

                My son can read. He’s always been at least a little advanced. Once upon a time he actually enjoyed reading, because the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books were new to him and he was at just the right age. He even enjoyed the Lemoncello books and Timmy Failure. But now I get the sense he’s outgrowing them. Still, there’s a theme there. He loves male characters around his age dealing with regular kid things with no real romance on the horizon. That’s exactly what those books delivered.

                I’m not a MG or YA reader. Other than what other book bloggers post about the books in these categories, I have no idea what’s out there. We’ve browsed the library and bookstore so I’m at least a tiny bit familiar with older titles. And yet he can’t find anything that really piques his interest. I’ve noticed that a lot of MG and YA books coming out these days tend to be romance heavy or message heavy, and definitely female lead character leaning. And fantasy. A lot of fantasy. Pre-teen and teen me would have been in heaven. Where were those books when I was growing up?!

                But it makes me wonder if readers like my son are being forgotten. Or maybe it’ll just be harder to come across the types of books he likes and we have to work harder. Which doesn’t quite seem fair, because I can see readers like him just giving up because playing phone games and watching YouTube is so much easier.

                Here he is, almost 12, thoroughly uninterested in romance. He’s a kid who just wants to laugh and have fun, because 6th grade was a tough year and he’s tired. He doesn’t need messages. He’s not interested in historical fiction. He doesn’t even want action and adventure. He definitely does not want to read about girls doing things. For one, he can’t identify with them, and, two, they’re girls.

                I asked him once what kind of story he wanted to read. He wants boys his age doing regular boy things, getting into regular boy trouble. He doesn’t want romance. He doesn’t want history. He doesn’t want science fiction and fantasy. He can take or leave mystery. He doesn’t want villains and heroes. He just wants normal kids doing normal things. He wants to see boys doing exactly what he’s doing: playing games, doing stupid things, and hanging out with friends. It sounds boring, and that’s probably why the books he craves so badly are impossible to find. But it’s what he wants. That’s why he’s so stuck on Greg Heffley and Timmy Failure. They’re just weird boys doing weird things living a normal life with crazy families (I won’t say our family isn’t crazy…).

                Where are books like these? Please, someone, help me find them for him.

                It’s so hard to even find books with a boy protagonist these days. Certainly, there are a lot of older titles, and it has been wonderful to see girls taking their rightful place alongside them. My daughter is going to have so many choices. But the older titles are too dated for my son. All those girls of today doing all these cool things? Yeah, he wants to see boys doing them, too. Sometimes, it makes me feel like publishers are catering to the girls because it seems like boys stop reading at a certain age. Hmm, I wonder why…

                I get it. Girls were historically marginalized. It’s difficult to go back to the older titles and find some really great leading girls doing all the things boys were doing. I mean, the Alanna books by Tamora Pierce were kind of groundbreaking back then. Of course all these girls grew up wanting to write the books they didn’t have growing up.

                But, please, don’t forget the boys. Plenty of men read, but my son’s not quite ready for the adult books I see them reading. And, with how popular SFF is these days, I’m certain he’s not going to be reaching for them anyways. I’m sure there are plenty of boys who like reading, but I’m not quite sure they have the same reading tastes as my son.

                I just need a spark, something to get him to want to pick up a next book and a next one and a next one after that. I hoped it would be the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. But he hit a wall, and now we don’t know what the next step is, where he’s moving into lower YA, but doesn’t want the romance, the girls, and the fantasy.

                Needless to say, I could use some help.

                bookish wonderings are readers like my son being forgotten

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                  [?]damppebbles » 🌐
                  @damppebbles@booktoot.club

                  *NEW BLOG POST*

                  Today on I am sharing this week's post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next!

                  Check out my post here...
                  ➡️ buff.ly/tOG2Vbe

                    [?]Stephen Cox Author » 🌐
                    @stephenwhq@mastodon.social

                    1039 — Does your SC consider themself to be a professional? Of what?

                    Mrs Ashton is a professional spiritualist medium, earning from lectures and performances and contributions from those she helped (as well as some writing.) She's not very professional about finishing her book. Her solving wicked murders is a sideline and not one she advertises. I am in copyedits of her next adventure.

                      [?]shadownlite » 🌐
                      @shadownlite@mastodon.social

                      Currently reading:

                      Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

                      Bought it secondhand and finally reading, and enjoying, it.

                      Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud book cover.

                      Alt...Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud book cover.

                        [?]Harry Dehrian » 🌐
                        @harrydehrian@mastodon.social

                        Book Promotion: Choose a on Unlimited

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                          [?]Skip Scherer - Author » 🌐
                          @skipscherer@mastodon.social

                          RE: mastodon.social/@skipscherer/1

                          Delve 139!

                          Time and the shadows always win. Arrogance can fell the greatest powers, leaving behind nothing but ruins in the deep. The dark doesn't care about your past.

                          Can you leave your ego behind to travel the darkness?
                          —
                          Fantasy Serial New Tue & Fri

                            [?]Nick East (Indie Writer) » 🌐
                            @NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art

                            Check out this guide for buying DRM free ebooks in 2026 😁

                            getbookshelves.app/guides/drm-

                            And go follow the writers of the guide at mastodon.art/@getbookshelves@m

                            @reading @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding





                              [?]Martyn » 🌐
                              @martwritesstuff@mastodon.social

                              I forgot to post Saturday's library haul, so here it is!

                              A pile of 5 library books (from top to bottom) : Karen Powell - Fifteen Wild Decembers, Lulu Allison - Salt Lick, Roisin O'Donnell - Wild Quiet, Curtis Sittenfield- Show Don't Tell, Lauren St John - The Obituary Writer

                              Alt...A pile of 5 library books (from top to bottom) : Karen Powell - Fifteen Wild Decembers, Lulu Allison - Salt Lick, Roisin O'Donnell - Wild Quiet, Curtis Sittenfield- Show Don't Tell, Lauren St John - The Obituary Writer

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                                [?]Kathy Bryson » 🌐
                                @KathyBryson@mastodon.social

                                A very cool act for a very cool series!

                                This Novel Is Experiencing a Once-in-a-Lifetime Resurgence. Here's Why screenrant.com/discworld-novel

                                  [?]Flipboard Culture Desk » 🌐
                                  @CultureDesk@flipboard.social

                                  "There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing," writes Tyler Jagt, a university literature teacher, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here's what he attributes it to. [Registration required to read article]

                                  flip.it/vQVXAp

                                    [?]🕯️Curious Magpie🕯️ » 🌐
                                    @CuriousMagpie@beige.party

                                    41/?
                                    I really enjoyed The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. It was fun to take notes on all the clues in the characters to figure out the mystery. (confession: I take notes on characters and clues in almost all the books I read.)

                                    "She said that she wrote for the child in herself, but for once I think she was wrong. I think she wrote for the adult in children. She never disrespected them or "wrote down", because she didn't know how." from the introduction by the author's friend and editor.

                                    "... the book didn't lie about bigger things either: that parents were flawed, that adults were hiding secrets, that the world worked in ways that were both unclear and unfair. It was clear eyed in the many ways that people fail themselves and each other, and it offered no straightforward solutions to any of it." from @dansinker and his recent blogpost on the book.

                                    Book cover: the westing game by Ellen Raskin.

                                    Alt...Book cover: the westing game by Ellen Raskin.

                                      [?]A. Rivera » 🌐
                                      @bloodravenlib@mas.to

                                      > Five totally plausible reading trends to watch out for this summer. lithub.com/five-summer-reading

                                      I am not buying their suggestion people will start picking up theory books. The horror trend I definitely see happening. Remaining 3 seem kind of meh to be honest. YMMV.

                                        [?]Harry Dehrian » 🌐
                                        @harrydehrian@mastodon.social

                                        Book Promotion: Sci-Fi & books on Kindle Unlimited

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                                          [?]EveryLibrary » 🌐
                                          @everylibrary@mastodon.social

                                          No country has ever increased freedom and liberty by banning books - www.bookbanpetition.us

                                            [?]ACT OUT TEES » 🌐
                                            @actouttees@mastodon.social

                                            PUBLIC WARNING ~ I READ BANNED BOOKS!
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