Books
Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett π
My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your takes on him, please, I know his flaws). Reading Terry Pratchett feels like visiting a treasured friend. A lot of fun here.
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Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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…the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training…
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgetsβtheir checkbooks, or their libraries’ acquisition budgets.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd π
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend π
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley π
Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff π
Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars π
Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate π
Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman π
Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley π
Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt π
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly π
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer π
Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland π
Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer π
Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres π
I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font for the Secret Goth Cabal. ππ
Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson π
Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss π