#booksign

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Bookends signing

[nealshustermanreal]

Throwback to this book signing moment back in May for Shock The Monkey. Huge thanks to Josh McDaniel for sharing this moment! It was a pleasure meeting you at the Barnes & Noble event and signing your copy of “Shock the Monkey.” Your enthusiasm for literature is inspiring!

[gallerynucleus]

Nucleus is proud to welcome artist and illustrator @raulurias in the gallery to celebrate the debut of his new book - PRAXIS!  Featuring new drawings and a brand new silkscreen release, this will be an event you won't want to miss. Join us on May 11, 5 - 8 pm for the opening reception

🔗 https://www.gallerynucleus.com/events/1026?more_info=1

[sonosvegliato]

asking you because i seriously consider u one of the best writers i have. read? known exists? anyways im asking how much do u plan when u write? ik uve talked abt ur process (v funny i love how ur mind works id love to poke around [affectionately]) but like. how much do u Plan in Advance? ive been sitting on some ideas for a while and im trying to think down to the SLIGHTEST things and im jus v curious as to? how much you think abt urs b4 sitting down2 write?

I am glad you think I am funny because I think I am funny too.

(Haha but for real I literally jumped into the air. Thank you!)

Here is where I get shifty because I am not an artist, I never have been, I have never quite gotten a handle on the patience required to color inside the lines. Likewise...I am not a plotter.

In general, an Idea Arrives, and then I sit down and write. A lot of the time it starts out as a scene I'd like to read, and I write that scene for 20 minutes or two hours, and after that I roll the dice in the air. If I poke around it long enough, I am morally required to construct everything that had to happen to get me to the Inciting Scene. My favorite thing to write is dialogue, and to convey how someone said something/why they said it, then I have to know the characters a little more. Sort of like eavesdropping on a conversation, and then getting to know a stranger from it.

I have never plotted anything start to finish. I normally have an end or something close to the end, a few enticing snippets, and that's my map. I don't finish original work too often, but it's not abandoned, it's just reworked, reworked, reworked. I have a friend that has original work that won a big well known editing/pitch contest and now has her work in the Query Trenches, and if she was the writing FBI she would lock me in jail for disorderly conduct and missing plotting documents. She says I should try to at least write a first draft through and let that be my guide, but I'm like. Nah. I start a story and I keep writing it and backtracking and rewriting and backtracking and rewriting, but theoretically at the end I have a story I'm satisfied with--- and not a draft I thought was bad a quarter of the way in but kept mudslogging through it. It's not losing progress, it's just rerouting yourself the longer way home so you avoid future traffic.

"Kill your darlings" is a very famous piece of writing advice, and when I was starting out I thought it meant, like, literally killing your characters for the Drama. Now I understand it as if there's a scene I really like or really want to include...sometimes she just has to get sidelined. And that's okay. We can harvest her organs for later. Frankenstein that bitch.

Fanfiction is different. It's fun and loose and I entertain myself. Now you will not swell the rout was a bit more thoughtfully done, that is, I spent more time on it than just being awake at midnight because I thought of something funny. It was not plotted. I didn't know the story was there. I missed martial arts, and then happened to listen in on a conversation about the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" (A.E. Housman). I didn't come up with Now you will not swell the rout as a fully-fleshed story then, I just added onto a snippet (literally the first three little paragraphs) and stuff connected and then two weeks went by in a mad haze and I had 30,000 words or whatever it was. After that, I've spoken previously that in hold the low lintel up (and now WIP#3) had some "plot" which are events in the comics I want to include, but I think that is more worldbuilding/keeping somewhat adjacent to the source material. Everything original is just up in my head or stored in a random line I want to remember to use later.

(Literally my "plot" bookmark in my google doc is Plot hey here’s a good line and then I proceed to write one very good sentence and seven disembodied dialogue fragments that don't belong together at all).

In the spirit of honesty, I wrote the last line of Now you will not swell the rout and that was supposed to be it. But the fic had such a lovely reception, and I really felt like I grew while I wrote it, and like look there was one big glaring unanswered question just sitting there, right, so. Now I have a series. And 100% of the reason I'm not uploading chapter by chapter is because I know I am not a plotter, I know I'll change things, and I really want to take my time with this and use it as experience for my original work.

So that was way more than you probably meant to ask for, but. In sum: no, I don't plan in advance, I just take a stab and commit literary medical malpractice. Some writing books will have whole sections on plotting, and will have you detail your characters' birthdate, favorite song, food, music, what's the name of their first dog, etc. A lot of people have to have that solid basis ("organization" my writer friend calls it, pfft). I know, personally, that if I go down that rabbit hole I will not get anything done. I will get stuck.

So if you are honest with yourself and won't get stuck making the ideal macaroni map, send plotting advice for the rest of us homies out there ✌️

SVEG OUT

[hisguardianeyessoblue]

Peter today at a book signing in Paris, with his ex wife, Jill, and their daughter Anna-Marie. Photos by various people lucky enough to attend.

[exoticarmy127]

Hot from the press!

I haven’t actually gotten my hands on them yet as I don’t fly home for another week but my baby is currently keeping guard of them for me. 

If you haven’t heard already, you can come to the book launch on April 1, 2023 (SATURDAY), 3:00 PM at National Book Store Shangri-La Plaza and have them signed by yours truly. 

JOIN THE LAUNCH *Admission is FREE!

PRE-ORDERS are still ongoing! 

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[leannareneehieber]

Getting ready for the first convention of 2023! Excited to join everyone at the 8th annual Stupid Cupid Ball in Cromwell, CT, now a 3-day celebration of #Steampunk! See @oddball_newt for tickets! I'm honored to be a Featured Guest alongside amazing talents in the genre! I'll be giving lots of talks on Ghosts, Victorian customs & Spiritualism, eager to sign copies of our acclaimed & bestselling A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: TRUE STORIES OF AMERICA'S GHOSTS! -- #booklife #booksigning #ctevents #History #VictorianGoth #Victorian #womenshistory #ghoststories #authorsofinstagram #ahauntedhistoryofinvisiblewomen #hauntedhistory #haunted #Ghosts #spiritualism #spookyreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CoK_ldxvOas/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mako-neexu]

GET ON THE SHINLENA BUS WE'RE GOING TO NUKE THE LEGION

[belizabethguerrero]

Japan Weekend Valencia 2022 - Firma de Libros

[tom--22--felton]

Posted @withrepost • @willow.timber.tom Tom! Tom! Tom! Second time meeting @t22felton !!! Thanks to @kacixjarvis for a ticket. I was doing well. Not crying too much and was able to stop crying when I met him. I had two tickets because my dad was with me and 3 books because I pre ordered when it was first announced. One of them was signed by him for me, one of them is the pre order which I don't have yet and the last one was for my friend Elisabeth! Tom told me I was really kind for giving her a book, thanked me for pre ordering and then said "are you a pottah fan? I can see you are a willow fan" because I was wearing the merch. I said yes and I asked for a photo and he said "of course! Can I have a hug first" I obviously said yes and hugged him, probably tighter than he was expecting but it was fine because he squeezed me too!!! (Also other people had come out saying that they had to ask him nicely for a hug and that we should all ask him but he asked me!!!!!!!!) And then I cried on him. And he'd asked me for the hug before the photo so it was too late for the whole no tears thing to work but he is the best human and gives the best hugs. 3rd times the charm! Hopefully I won't cry then. Also if anyone had any photos of me with tom DM me 💚💚🦆🦆 @waterstones #tom #felton #tomfelton #booktour #tomfeltonbooksigning #tomfeltonbooksigning #t22felton #meetandgreet #booksigning #beyondthewand #celebrity #tomfeltonfans #tomfeltonlover #tomfletonphoto #t22feltonfan #dracomalfoy #harrypotter #lucasz #peagreenclock https://www.instagram.com/p/CjpYEJFKm6S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ledelano]

Are you going to the Pennwriters conference this weekend? Be sure to stop me and say hello. My books will be available in the book shop - see you there!

[legendofthe3divas]

This is so exciting!! It might be just the UK though but not sure. Hopefully lots of fans (including you and me) are able to attend a signing!

[nealshustermanreal]

Today is the day! See you at 2:00 PM ET for another fun-filled book signing event at Barnes and Noble San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida! Don't forget to bring your copies of “Break To You,” co-authored with the talented Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden. And hey, why not bring your best bud along for double the fun?

[chunkyandfriends]

This year we were characters from @disneyplus @marvelstudios @themoonknight! BenX is the king of #Halloween. He loved the Moon Knight series and we acquiesced. We came with it again!!! Sadhana was a mummy, Eevee was an Egyptian goddess, I was Mr. Knight, and BenX was Moon Knight. #moonknight 🍎🍏 🍎🍏 🍎🍏 🍎🍏 Juice and The Fountain of Youth 📘 Hardcover 📘: Now available to order with your favorite book retailers including @amazon, just click the link in my bio to order. 🎧 AudioBook 🎧: @Spotify @applemusic @amazonmusic @youtube and more… 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏 #health #fitness #entrepreneur • #healthy #healthychoices #goodfood #family #blacklove #BlackBusiness #blackfamily #dadlife #chunkyandfriends #smallbusiness #obeast #bestseller #book #booksigning #bookstagram #igers #instahealth #determination #motivation #first #thinkhealthy #instalike #active #activeplay #JuiceAndTheFountainOfYouth https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZoBk_L7Wo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[asthegirlturns]

If you're in the Los Angeles area, come out to this unique hybrid book signing event for "The Making of an American Hip-Hop Tycoon," hosted by yours truly and @benjamenjaneyofficial and sponsored by @hunnypotlive! #podcast #BookSpotlight #authorslife #entrepreneurs #Spooler #hiphop #tycoon #booksigning https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6zR3JPeEl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nrhartauthor]

She was romantic about so many things … 🌙 Poetry and Pearls , a summer season @n.r.hart 🌸🌸🌸 Thank you for ordering Poetry and Pearls and sharing this lovely picture. 🙏🏻 Repost from @dawnmbrewerhunt • Love this poetry 💕 @n.r.hart Poetry and Pearls I & II paperbacks in full color 🌈 with all my original floral posters inside divided into the four seasons Winter Spring Summer Autumn because I feel there are seasons of the heart too.💕 They are packed full of poetry including my Beauty and the Beast, Soulmate & Twin Flame poetry. These books are beautiful works of art ✨✨✨ Love Poems to No One & Beauty and her Beast 👑 beautiful floral hard covers in black with all my original black & white posters inside divided into the four seasons Winter Spring Summer Autumn. The perfect little size to carry with you everywhere. 🍃🍃🍃 This is a trilogy series Book 3 The Last of the Romantics out now ✨ • Thank you for sharing my words and buying my books! Love, N.R.Hart ❤️ • All my books are available @amazon @barnesandnoble @chaptersindigo @bookdepository @target @walmart worldwide. link in bio ✨✨✨ • https://www.amazon.com/poetry-pearls-romantic-n-hart/dp/1512179272/ https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Pearls-Romantic-II/dp/0578428660/ https://www.amazon.com/Love-Poems-No-One-Romantic/dp/0578451166/ https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Her-Beast-Romantic-Poetry/dp/0578616440/ https://www.amazon.com/Last-Romantics-Romantic-Poetry/dp/0692168591/ • #nrhart #nrhartpoetry #poetryandpearls #poetryandpearls2 #lovepoemstonoone #poetry #bookstagram #poetrybooks #typewriterpoetry #vintage #lovepoems #lovequotes #booksigning #bookstagram #bookshelf #oldsoul #empath #romanticpoetry #romanceisnotdead #hopelessromantic (at Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl0P_nOuxrL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=