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The Cunning Man: A Hippo Yeoman anthology
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How Did The Author Do That?
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How I Created A Totally New Book Genre - And You Can Too
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do you create an entirely new ‘novel’ of a kind that has never been
seen before? One that’s so new that Amazon has no category for it? And
that literary agents run away from, howling?
But that’s potentially more profitable than any other work of fiction?
The last author who did that was Miguel Cervantes when he wrote Don Quixote and pioneered the novel genre in 1605.
But I had to do Read more of this blog post »
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― Dream Of Darkness
― Dream Of Darkness
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― Dream Of Darkness
― Dream Of Darkness
“Irony arises when a person is presented with one truth but a greater truth lies beneath it. They do not see that truth but another person does. Some people find the contrast funny.”
― Dream Of Darkness
― Dream Of Darkness
“the Pednosophers who, by one name or another, actually did exist in late 16th century London. It numbered among its members Marlowe and Raleigh. (‘Its president is in the Azores,’ says Cotton, of Raleigh. And so he was.) Probably only one reader in a million will detect this obscure reference. I pray it’s the reviewer for The New York Times.”
― Dream Of Darkness
― Dream Of Darkness
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Thank you for the friend request! As long as there are only pictures of cute puppies, no kitties, we're good. ;)
Jane wrote: "If you mean the anachronistic reference to teenagers, I covered that in my review. There may have been others."No, I wasn't referring to 'teenager' (m20thc), Jane. (I can't, for the life of me, remember what I was referring to.) But I wouldn't worry too much about such anachronisms. Dictionaries are often wrong. As William Empson once said (name dropping is my forte), the oral use of a term usually precedes its appearance in print by several decades. I once wickedly had a character in an Elizabethan histfict novel arrive on a go cart, having jetted around Europe, left his bus at Calas, his train at Slough and his car at Dunstable. Readers cried 'anachronisms!' In fact, all these transport-related terms were used in the 1590s and would have been perfectly comprehensible in the period. Heaven save us from pedants :)
If you mean the anachronistic reference to teenagers, I covered that in my review. There may have been others.
