Today is the heavy topic Monday, it seems. Why do certain genres deal with dark themes? “Perhaps HA can answer why themes of child abuse and rape comes up in certain genres. These themes are a bit stomach turning and I am curious to know what would propel an author to explore that.” Art is
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Are You Famous Yet?
Are you ever recognized when you are out and about? Do you have any funny, interesting stories about being recognized and if I’m ever fortunate enough to see you on an airplane or in an airport how would you like me/others to react? Say hello or leave you alone? No. Hehe. Writing is the best
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Overdrive and Libraries: Everything You Wanted To Know
Today we have the honor of hosting Gingko-girl, who is a member of the BDH and a librarian. She is here to talk about Overdrive and libraries. An Overdrive Primer for the Curious and the Frustrated Hello (waves shyly). My name is Gingko-girl and I am a member of the Book Devouring Horde. I am
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What is an Anchor Series?
Two posts in one day. This post is made because I didn’t put things clearly on Friday, and poor Mod R had to suffer from my incompetence. Thank you to everyone for your supportive messages! We appreciate it. This post is for everyone who is worried that their favorites will be abandoned. What is an
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Too Many Legs
The working writer dude has been named. I present to you Edgar Allen Prose, from now on known simply as Edgar. “It is truly my greatest honor to be given a name. Here I was, adrift, resigned to anonymity that is a constant companion of our profession. It haunts me the way it haunts all
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Name That Man
Dear BDH, As you know, sometimes we use certain writers to help us illustrate our blog posts. It has been brought to our attention that they need to be named. We will start with the fan favorite: Working Writer Man, the one we all know and love. Yes, we are talking about you. What are
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Happy Tuesday
Magic Claims is one week old today, and I think that was the busiest release I ever remember. We’ve tried ads, we redid our office set up, we opened the store, and now I’m deliriously happy that everything has ran its course and we can get back to writing. Frank Norris once said, “Don’t like
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A Small Thank You And Other Things
Store First We have received over 1,500 orders. That is a lot of orders. A lot more orders than expected. We are going through each order individually, meaning every order is reviewed by an actual human before it will be put into production. If we see weirdness, we may email you to doublecheck that everything
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BDH: The Best Fandom Ever and Snippet
From the comment section: I bought the “Audio That Shall Not Be Named” and did get my credit back; I just placed a call as well as the return did not give me the option as to why I returned it. In my phone call I started with, “I want to tell you why I
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Quick FAQ About Fraud
Audible didn’t give me a refund for the pirated audio of Small Magics. Audible will refund the credits, but not the credit card purchases. We are working on this from our end. We can’t make any promises, because Audible is a large company, but we are doing our best. This is why it was kind
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Finite Numbers and Other Mysteries of the Universe
I’m re-reading Sweep of the heart and wanted to ask a question regarding the source of one of the philosophies mentioned in the book- Tessidect’s principle (the one about love). Did the authors invent it, or is it rooted in some real-life philosophy? I like it very much and would like to explore the concept
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Guest Interviews: Graphic Audio
On the heels of the wonderful news about Clean Sweep being nominated for an Audie award, please welcome to the blog Nora Achrati and Robert McDonald from Graphic Audio, who have generously agreed to answer some of the questions you had about dramatized audio adaptations and how they work. Welcome Nora! First thing first, what
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