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Many people have told me how they like to read the opening few paragraphs of books before buying.

So, here is the opening to mine, 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' which will be available for pre-order early 2025 and then released in August.

I'm a first time author, so shares mean a lot and I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

#Writing #NatureWriting #Books #Bookstodon #Scotland #Caithness #Bookworm #Reading

I was eight years old when our mum moved us from one end of Scotland to the other. From Jedburgh, where you cross the border to England, to Thurso, where you catch the boat to Orkney. I don’t know what mum saw in Caithness, but I suspect it was just as far as she could go without leaving the country. Caithness is flat and vast and lies prostrate to a wind pushed inland by the thuggish North Sea. A wind that reminds anything attempting to grow that it should perhaps reconsider. On the heaths and moors, plants have no choice but to stay close to the ground and each other. Even in July, when the rest of Scotland is dressed by the full flair of summer, the Flow Country is understated. Thriving in the nutrient-poor soil, bog asphodel, myrtle and bean hide among heather and peat. In the skies above these rare blanket bogs, golden plover and greenshank float silently on warm air and mottled wings. On the coast, the sandstone shark fins of Duncansby Stacks ward off all but the most determined travellers. The Borders are Scotland at its most pastoral, but Caithness akin to a moonscape. I had never seen anything like it. On either side of a road, cutting long and straight through an expansive moorland, people stood in smoke and flames, soft-edged silhouettes as they beat the ground around them with huge paddles. Muirburn, the controlled burning of heather. It felt ancient, apocalyptic. Last paragraph missing as no room for all the text.
#books #Scotland #reading #writing #bookstodon #bookworm #caithness #naturewriting

'The right to decide who can train a model on your work does you no good unless it comes with the *power* to exercise that right.'

@pluralistic on Rupert Murdoch's new enthusiasm for AI:

pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rig…

#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI #bookstodon @bookstodon

Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net
#books #ai #reading #publishing #writing #bookstodon @Cory Doctorow @bookstodon group

Friends on the Fedi:

A local high school here in KC is trying to win a $40,000 library renovation, and if you all could vote for them, I'd love you forever. No signup needed, just go to this link and vote for Van Horn High School.

Boosts welcome as well.

Thank you!!!

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#Libraries #Reading #Books #Vote


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#books #reading #vote #libraries

More hearty congratulations to Samantha Harvey, who has won the 2024 #BookerPrize

Catch her discussing her Booker-winning novel Orbital and her short story Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch on the @fictionable #podcast at #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and, of course at fictionable.world/podcasts/sam…

#books #reading #writing #fiction #bookstodon @bookstodon

The writer Samantha Harvey looks directly at the camera, light flooding in from a window out of shot on the right-hand side of the image.

Samantha Harvey: ‘This is what fiction can do’

Fiction confronts the mysteries of death and takes us up into the heavens. Samantha Harvey makes the case for making stuff up
www.fictionable.world
#books #Podcast #spotify #reading #writing #fiction #bookstodon #bookerprize #applepodcasts #acast @Fictionable @bookstodon group

The Tao of Pooh is one of my favorite books. It uses the characters of Winnie-the-Pooh to explain Taoism. Great read.

#books #taoism #pooh #WinnieThePooh #tao #reading #halo

The book The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff sitting on a Halo Reach book.
#books #reading #halo #taoism #pooh #winniethepooh #tao

#Illiteracy has become such a serious #problem in our country that 130 million #adults are now unable to read a simple #story to their #children


Source: thenationalliteracyinstitute.c…

#usa #reading #education #parents #kids #news #statistics #fail #Intelligence #library #book #future


Literacy Statistics 2022-2023

Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation • Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022 • 54% of adults …
ingridhaynesphd (National Literacy)
#fail #News #future #problem #story #USA #education #children #Intelligence #reading #book #Kids #library #statistics #parents #Illiteracy #adults

Haymarket Books has made 10 key antifascist ebooks #free to download.

“Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together.”

haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-t…

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#reading

The 10 free ebook titles.

Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other.
haymarketbooks.org
#free #reading #uspolitics #election2024

The mask has come off: ‘#Racist’ #Trump #Rally #Comedian Tells #Black, #Latino #Voters How #MAGA Really Feels About Them

#TonyHinchcliffe said the #quietpart out loud.

— Remember he was #reading his #Speech off of a #teleprompter.

newsone.com/5658620/maga-trump…


Mask Off: ‘Racist’ Trump Rally Comedian Tells Black, Latino Voters How MAGA Really Feels About Them

Tony Hinchcliffe told racist jokes about Blacks and Latinos at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Bruce C.T. Wright (NewsOne)
#Trump #reading #speech #Black #racist #maga #rally #latino #comedian #voters #tonyhinchcliffe #quietpart #Teleprompter

This is how I usually read. I rarely read word-by-word.

theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

#Literacy #Reading #Neuroscience #SpeedReading #LanguageProcessing #Linguistics


Human brain can process certain sentences in ‘blink of an eye’, says study

Researchers say findings differ from previous theories that words are understood one by one
Nicola Davis (The Guardian)
#reading #neuroscience #linguistics #languageprocessing #speedreading #literacy

Entering the last week of my Kickstarter! My book is already funded, and I can't wait for you all to meet my new, favourite character. It's not that her name is a spoiler, I just don't want to deprive you of the fun in discovering it for yourself.

Jump on over the project page and get yourself a copy. Support your indie authors. kickstarter.com/projects/dharr…

#books #reading #AmReading @bookstodon #writing #authodons #ModernFantasy #IndieAuthor

Did you know if you made $500000 each day since the invention of the printing press in 1439, you would still have less money than Jeff Bezos? Support your Indie Bookstore.
#books #reading #writing #amreading #indieauthor #Authodons #modernfantasy @bookstodon group

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