Five Things to do on the Way to the Bottom of the Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
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The Magic Knapsack
Reading Time: 4 minutesA boy’s love for his mother helps him avoid a snare set by the Devil.
A Mother Knows
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter fertility reached an all time low, fertile women are inseminated in an effort to save humanity. While caring for her dying child, one mother takes measure to ensure she won’t have another baby.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 1
Reading Time: 12 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 29, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fallen goddesses, gothic mystery, cozy mystery, alien romance, and retold fairytales.
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A Last Word
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn author must tell his three elderly leading characters that he is handing them over to someone else.
Google offers free AI-powered audiobook narration
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, Google announced a free service to convert your EPUB file into an audiobook, using its AI voices.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 24
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 22, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a dystopian future, a metaphysical fantasy, romance, witches, werewolves, vampires, and a dragon rider.
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The Goddess of the Labyrinth
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs the 45th president of the United States, Daniel Van Dorien has encountered the only obstacle to completing his plan for his country’s future. When an unknown Goddess is reawakened in the White House, the president’s pursuit of enlightenment will shift the nation’s future as a super-power.
The Foot Race on PhytoLore
Reading Time: 12 minutesIf something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Heartsick
Reading Time: 17 minutesIn a world where it is illegal to be unhealthy, a young doctor must choose between her heart and the career she’s fought so hard for…
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 17
Reading Time: 12 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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How to create short URLs to promote your work
Reading Time: 7 minutesLink shortening services can help you track which of your book marketing efforts are actually working.
Mmanwu Festival
Reading Time: 4 minutesCentred on the Igbo Mmanwu Festival, Chinaza’s words dance between the past and present, capturing the essence of family ties and spirituality of this time of year.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 15, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, metaphysical fiction, romance, science fiction adventure, sword and sorcery, and a dystopian future.
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Space Perspective unveils luxurious capsule interior for high altitude balloon rides
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn just a few years, you’ll be able to fly high above the earth’s surface in a luxurious space lounge carried by a balloon.
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Pavlov Shack — free realistic multiplayer combat game for Oculus Quest II
Reading Time: 5 minutesPavlov Shack is one of the best free VR combat shooter games I’ve seen for the Oculus Quest 2.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 10
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 8, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, changelings, a cozy magical mystery, a supernatural apocalypse, and a snarky magical private eye.
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Nothing in the Dark
Reading Time: 26 minutesCosmic horrors await an astronomer on a solo observing run.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 3
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 1, 2022
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has galactic empire science fiction, occult suspense, a cozy paranormal mystery, vampires, genetic alteration, and lots of romance.
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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei lands on earth in Russian spacecraft
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have landed on earth in a Russian spacecraft despite increasing tensions between Russia and the United States over the conflict in Ukraine.
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Blood Prism
Reading Time: 26 minutes
Penny Dreadful meets American Gods.
A literary, romantic, dark-horror that immerses you in an alternate San Francisco inhabited by old gods, gold rush madams, Sally Hemings, and vampires.
NASA says it’s spotted 5,000 exoplanets
Reading Time: 4 minutesNASA recently announced that it’s discovered 5,000 exoplanets, a milestone that’s taken 30 years to achieve. An exoplanet is a planetary body outside of our own solar system, and the search for them started in 1992 with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program. The program is responsible for discovering and studying planetary systems around nearby suns. NASA’s used a
Honeybee and the Blot
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual rendezvous takes place in outer space. The synthetic creature known as Honeybee brings a young man’s soul to her lover, an entity called the Blot. Yet Honeybee begins to question her relationship with the Blot after it treats her poorly.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 27
Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 25, 2022
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, mystery, magic, myth and legend, and lots of fantasy.
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Sugar Plum Ghosts
Reading Time: 17 minutesA ballerina who’s always dreamed of the spotlight finds herself in the shadows when she makes a dangerous deal with a ghost.
Kill Your Darlings
Reading Time: 17 minutesWhat happens when meeting the star of your favorite childhood show and everything goes awry?
Starshine
Reading Time: 4 minutesA new take on the traditional space aliens arrive on Earth story – I hope you like it!
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 20
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What is the metaverse?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe term “metaverse” was first coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. He used it to refer to an immersive, virtual reality world in which people are embodied as their avatars.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 18, 2022
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, faeries, a Sumerian goddess, witches, psychics, spaceships, alien lovers and post apocalyptic futures.
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Neither Here Nor There
Reading Time: 9 minutesAn exploration of that arcane quantum realm where one skids and slides between decision.
The Never
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is an excerpt from a poetic novel by author Odera Darka. She writes with the same flavor as James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
A Sly and Knowing Grin
Reading Time: 12 minutesNot all people shopping in a store are what they seem to be…..
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 13
Reading Time: 14 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 11, 2022
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has EMP survival, and visions of dystopian futures, dragons, space battles, and time travel.
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New to Brandon Sanderson? Here are three books you should read
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere are three Brandon Sanderson books you should read if you’re new to his work.
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2021 Nebula Award finalists announced
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America just announced the finalists for the 2021 Nebula Awards.
Writing Classes that Rock: Emotional Truth from Odyssey Writing Workshops
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmotional Truth from Odyssey Writing Workshops is a 5-week class that does a deep dive on techniques to heighten the emotional quality of your writing.
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Brandon Sanderson is a dirty liar
Reading Time: 2 minutesI never should have trusted him. Sure, he’s incredible with his fans. But I feel so betrayed.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 6
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Kingdom To Awry
Reading Time: 5 minutes27th of August, 2086
Even in the future, you can’t take tomorrow for granted.