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| Free Book: The Count of Monte Cristo |
| 2009-11-09 05:03:28 |
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Description: The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas’ most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical ...
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| Using Social Media To Build Your Platform |
| 2009-11-05 09:58:59 |
This is a presentation that I gave at the Social Media Club chapter here in Richmond. Ostensibly, the presentation is generic enough to apply to any niche or vertical, but the lessons contained within can be directly applied to building an author’s platform.
Fair warning, the tone is a bit cheekier than I use here at Fiction Matters and I do swear a couple of times.
Niche Communities and Social Networks – A Presentation from Bradley Robb on Vimeo.
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| 3 Questions To Better Understand Your Novel |
| 2009-11-03 10:20:13 |
Vito and I were talking about our individual works-in-progress this morning. My esteemed colleague has largely put the finishing touches on his manuscript and is readying for the querying process. The conversation then naturally drifted towards how a writer must transition from the author’s cap to the marketer’s fedora to accomplish this. Here are the three questions to ask yourself to make the changing of hats that much easier.
1. In a book store, where would you shelve your novel?
Be honest with yourself and don’t immediately leap towards the commercial or ...
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| Free Book: War and Peace |
| 2009-11-02 11:08:24 |
Author: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Description: War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world’s greatest novels.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with ...
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| Free Book: I, Robot |
| 2009-10-26 09:30:51 |
Author: Cory Doctorow
Description: “I, Robot” is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005.
The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed.
The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. [source: Feedbooks.com]
Language: English
Published: 2005
Formats: ePub, Mobipocket/Kindle, pdf, custom ...
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| NaNoWriMo Field Guide |
| 2009-10-21 09:25:28 |
On November 1st, thousands of people all over the world will begin to furiously pursue a singular goal – the creation of a 50,000 word novel in the course of just one month. It’s an idea that seems ludicrous at first and purely daunting on closer inspection, yet for ten years now, there are many who have managed to accomplish just that.
First carried out in July of 1999, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for those prone to internet-speak) was the brainchild of San Francisco writer Chris Baty. The following ...
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| Post-Gutenberg: A Culture of Ideas |
| 2009-10-14 11:59:06 |
In our modern world, it is difficult to separate the concept of art from the medium it is delivered in. For most of our lives, music has been synonymous with the package it was delivered in – be it vinyl, cassette, or compact disc. Movies are even more difficult to pin down, having existed wholly in their medium as film before expanding into video cassettes and DVDs. And books? Since Gutenberg, books have been a self contained identity, where the package and idea were tightly intertwined.
With the blurring of ...
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| Free Book: Dracula |
| 2009-10-12 10:51:46 |
Author: Bram Stoker
Description: Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the ...
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| Warm-ups for Your Writing |
| 2009-10-07 14:40:18 |
In last week’s post on Power Writing, I wrote about the importance of confining yourself to your desk for a limited amount of time in order to foster good writing habits. Today, I’d like to highlight an exercise that’s in the same vein, albeit on a much smaller scale. Meet One Word.
This site was introduced by a friend and member of the writing group I belong to. The concept is drastically simple – each day the site presents you with a one word prompt and sixty seconds to write about ...
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| Amazon, Orwell, and the Truth About DRM |
| 2009-07-22 10:50:05 |
On July 14th, Michael Bhaskar, of Pan Macmillian, sparked a firestorm of a debate at the Digitalist over one simple assertion, “DRM is not evil.” While Pan Macmillian is one of the more progressive major publishing houses when it comes to electronic publishing, Bhaskar’s assertions were met with responses that ranged from cautious skepticism to outright anger.
A day later, Bhaskar posted a response to some of the comments, sparking a second round of debate which drew in both Cory Doctorow and Clay Shirky. The firestorm of comments eventually calmed down, ...
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