5/13/2023 0 Comments David frye walls![]() ![]() The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. ![]() Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected on the other, those the walls kept out. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest man-made barriers, from ancient times to the present. ![]()
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![]() This is also why it’s in your best interest to deliver a later draft rather than a first one to the person editing your work (whether it’s me or not) that extra polish saves you money. If you’re an experienced writer, it likely won’t take as long to copyedit your work as it would a new writer. I do this per hour and not per page as I’ve found time spent can vary greatly depending on the work. Brainstorming is a bit like very specific, directed content editing on a particular part of an unfinished work.įurther Details & Frequently Asked Questions In a nutshell: substantive editing is looking at the big picture–your plot, characters, pacing, etc–while copyediting is looking at the text on a smaller scale. I also question a lot for accuracy, but I am not an actual fact-checker and expect the author to have done research. ![]() ![]() I do not offer proofreading services (I catch as many typos and manual errors as I can, but I do suggest someone else give your MS a final once-over before publication if your edits require you to do a lot of revision). ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Masked Man by Elsie James![]() People often ask me how our friends and families reacted. And when you find it, things naturally move quicker because you’re in the right place to embrace it. Something shifts in your 30s, I believe you know yourself better and what you want out of a relationship. Yes, it broke the conventional timeline of most relationships, but it was OUR timeline. There’s never a right time for big change - and like so much of our relationship, we found ourselves laughing at the craziness of it - that this beautiful, unexpected miracle had found its way to us at the height of our romance.įor me, it something to celebrate. I was still going between cities for work. The circumstances weren’t exactly perfect. We’d talked about starting a family one day, but "one day" came around quicker than expected. It was a whirlwind romance for the ages I’d fallen blindingly in love with this man and - no matter the transatlantic hurdles - would move mountains, storage boxes and all expectations for him.įinding out we were pregnant so soon into dating was a shock. ![]() ![]() ![]() To put it succinctly, he had been somewhat framed. ![]() He was not at all reluctant to speak about his troubles with the law. Von Daniken is a smooth, likable, restless, somewhat stocky Swiss, who is not quite in total command of the English language, but who does not let that sap his confidence in it. We did meet the fallowing Sunday in von Daniken's spacious suite in the Park Lane with a splendid view of Central Park. ![]() I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that the terse reference to the writer's personal life, rather than his book had been ill‐advised. Believing as I do in rehabilitation and knowing that great books are frequently written by men I would not want to marry my daughter, I was already having second thoughts. von Daniken's background, a matter of fraud and forgery, all public knowledge. The description referred to a peccadillo in Mr. Erich had been hurt by it, she told me perhaps I would meet him when he was in town. A few months ago I received a call from the publicity woman at Bantam Books about a one‐line descriptive phrase that had appeared with the listing of Erich von Daniken's “Chariots of the Gods?” on the Paperback Best Seller List. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Little lies book![]() ![]() Setting: In the book, Lucy and Stephen have relocated from the neighboring Long Island towns of Cold Harbor and Bayville (respectively) to attend Baird College in sunny Southern California. Spoilers for both the book and series of Tell Me Lies follow. So what tweaks were made in adapting Tell Me Lies for the small screen? Glad you asked. From the first scene, though, it’s clear that showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer isn’t afraid to make a few departures from Lovering’s book. ![]() In the way that the storyline closely tracks Lucy’s time at Baird College and the evolution of her relationship with Stephen, the Hulu series remains fundamentally faithful to its source material. The series then flashes back to Lucy’s first year of college and proceeds to show us exactly how Lucy and Stephen got involved-and what their relationship ultimately cost, not only the two of them but everyone else in their orbit. ![]() Executive produced by Emma Roberts and based on the addictive novel by Carola Lovering, the series introduces us to Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten), a twentysomething woman on her way to her college friend’s engagement party-only to find her biggest-deal ex, Stephen DeMarco (Jackson James White), also in attendance. ![]() For anyone who’s ever had a toxic, just-can’t-quit-you type of relationship with a significant other, the new Hulu show Tell Me Liesmight feel a little too familiar. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Betsy schow books in order![]() ![]() ![]() In the first book, everything is new and seen for the first time. I personally think the second book of a fantasy series is the hardest to write. So onto book #2 of the Storyteller’s Series… And you know how it goes in Story: keep your friends close and your enemies closer… ![]() But Gwenevere has opened a new Academy of Villains in Camelot and danger lurks behind every plot twist. Rexi’s plan? Steal the sword Excalibur and use its magic to write her own tale. But if Rexi doesn’t figure out how to break the curse that binds them, forget being overshadowed by the spirited princess, Rexi’s going to become a Forgotten, wiped from the pages of Story and reduced to a puddle of ink. Yeah, she and Princess Dorthea of Emerald have been inseparable since they teamed up to fight the wickedest witch. But sidekick? Accomplice? Sorry, that wasn’t in her story description. After all, she’s the daughter of the infamous Robin Hood. The sidekicks though… they should be worried. No matter how difficult the obstacles or all-powerful the evil villain, one can rest assured that the hero of the story never dies. In the sequel to Spelled, can Robin Hood’s daughter, Rexi, stop the Wicked Witch from finding Excalibur? ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Krakauer into thin air![]() ![]() ![]() Journalist Jon Krakauer, on assignment from Outside magazine and on the Adventure Consultants team, published Into Thin Air (1997) which became a bestseller. Three officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police also died.įollowing the disaster, several survivors wrote memoirs. Four members of the Adventure Consultants expedition died, including Hall, while Fischer was the sole casualty of the Mountain Madness expedition. While climbers died on both the North Face and South Col approaches, the events on the latter were more widely reported. Numerous climbers were at a high altitude on Everest during the storm including the Adventure Consultants team, led by Rob Hall, and the Mountain Madness team, led by Scott Fischer. The 1996 disaster received widespread publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest after the 22 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake and the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche. The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10– when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Yasmin mogahed books![]() ![]()
5/12/2023 0 Comments The deep nick cutter book![]() ![]() While I believe Stephen King is absolutely right to acknowledge the importance of old-school scares and blood-soaked pages in The Troop, for me it’s the confident sense of character, eidetic language and kinetic writing style that makes this a truly compelling winner. The first winner of a new prize can set expectations for years to come. The James Herbert award for horror writing, or the Herbert as it’ll probably be known, was launched in April 2014 with the aim of discovering and championing a new generation of horror authors and celebrating the life and career of one of its most loved writers. ![]() It’s a book horror fans will love, and one I believe James Herbert would have celebrated.Īs Kerry Herbert, James’s daughter and one of our judges, put it: “Human evil meets an insatiable force of nature to wreak havoc on kids, a scout troop, no less? My father would have chuckled in his chair.” I only ever met James Herbert briefly myself, but as a long-standing fan of his writing, that’s an image to relish. ![]() It was the unpredictable but tightly-plotted suspense, combined with credible characterisation and, yes, moments of full-on bloody horror, that made The Troop a clear winner for our panel of judges this year. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Pennyroyal academy book 3![]() ![]() This imaginative fantasy adventure offers a compelling narrative with just the right mixture of scares and laughs, victories and failures, friendships and light romance. When the war with the witches makes it way to their door, Evie and her outsider friends may just be the best chance the school has at survival. ![]() Evie meanwhile is keeping dangerous secrets, and as layers of curses are lifted, surprising revelations about both Malora’s past and her own come to light. Outside the gates, the war against the witches is growing closer, while inside, Evie and her friends are plagued by their snobby classmate Malora, who seems intent on ridding the school of the lowborn. Once there, the girl, now called Evie, manages to make friends with the school’s other outsiders, and together they help one another succeed. She’s on a mission, though, to find Pennyroyal Academy, the premier training school for future princes and princesses, which is accepting lowborn girls for the first time. After facing the perils of the enchanted forest and barely escaping the clutches of a witch, a young girl with no name begins to think that running away from home was a bad idea. ![]() |