#booksign

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Bookends signing

[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

[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!

[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

[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! 

ORDER AT:

anvilpublishing.com 

Shopee PH

Lazada PH

For orders outside of the Philippines, email onlinesales@anvilpublishing.com

[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

[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!

[artbookdap]

SCREENINGS, Q&A and BOOK SIGNING Roger A Deakins American Cinematheque, Aero Theater Moderated by Jim Hemphill Feb 8 | 6.30 pm Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 6.30 pm the American Cinematheque will host a special double feature retrospective with two of Deakins’ most seminal works ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’. In addition to a special one-on-one Q&A, Deakins will also be available to sign copies of his first photo book, ‘Byways’ (@damiani_books 2021). 'Byways' is the first monograph by Sir Roger A Deakins. The book includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to 2020. >>> Details & tickets: link in bio @am_cinematheque @franklinjleonard @team.deakins @jamesellisdeakins @artbook @thameshudsonsales @interartparis #teamdeakins #rogerdeakins #rogeradeakins #jamesellisdeakins #stillphotography #sirrogerdeakins #damianibooks #damianieditore #blackandwhitephotography #americancinematheque #aerotheater #insidethebook #screening #booksigning https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZomHuuuNt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[karmacanary]

There will be 6 ticket levels for RomantiConn 2025 and the first 3 go on sale one month from today! General admission tickets will be available starting in December/January.

All tickets should be purchased through Eventbrite or directly through RomantiConn. Please watch for scammers.

INFO

[suzannerogers]

Secret Love by Willow Aster is now live! Join us to celebrate with a book signing and conversation with Willow Aster & author Amelie Rhys!

When: Tuesday, October 15th @6:30pm-8:00pm Where: Tropes & Trifles Register now! https://bit.ly/483kcbN #singledadplaybook #singledadplaybookseries #willowaster #footballromance #singledad #valentineprlm

[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?

[thelondonwhisperer]

Emily English’s ‘So Good’ Book Launch…and it really is!

Last night Anthropologie hosted an interview with Emily English for her new cookbook ‘So Good’ 🍤

Led by Alexandra Dudley the evening started with her signature sumptuous @lillet cocktail, ‘So Good Spritz’ and tantalising prawn canapés. 

After learning all things nutrition, her routines and even how to be the perfect host, she quickly whipped up a delicious beetroot glow dip and flatbread for guests to enjoy, proving that her recipes really are So Good 🧡

[exoticarmy127]

IT'S OFFICIAL!!! 🤩

I haven't had an in-person event since 2019, and I'm so thrilled to announce that I will be flying back to Manila to celebrate the official launch of #CRAVE 🖤 Come see me on April 1 (Saturday), 3:00PM, at National Book Store Shangri-La Plaza. Open to all and completely FREE! 

RSVP HERE

🖤🖤🖤 The first book in the #HeavenlySinsSeries, "Crave" is a #supernatural #romance that follows the determined and headstrong Charity who unexpectedly finds herself personally employed by V, a brilliant CEO sullied by his own dark secrets. As the two grow closer, Charity's mundane life is opened up to a world of angels and demons—intoxicating, dangerous, and impossible to leave behind. #CRAVE will be available at a discounted price* of P265 during the event. You may also preorder at: 📌 www.anvilpublishing.com 📌 Shopee (bit.ly/AnvilShopee) 📌 Lazada (bit.ly/AnvilLazada) Preorders until March 31 come with a FREE** bookmark! For orders outside of the Philippines, email onlinesales@anvilpublishing.com Special thanks to our event partners: National Book Store and Shangri-La Plaza. *Promo is valid at NBS Shangri-La on April 1, 2023 only **Free bookmark for the first 200 orders until March 31, 2023. One bookmark per book only.

[siobhanmuirromance]

Reminder: Please share far and wide, and get your tickets before they sell out. I'm going to be there so you can see me in person!