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The official home of #LitChat — for book lovers, readers, and writers. Let us know what you're bookish for. 📚🔥💬 The Global Village Joined January 2009-
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One of my undergrad professors (who I adore) once told me “Every generation needs its greats. So why not you?” And I think about that OFTEN. 🗣 WHY. NOT. YOU?!?!
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@LitChat I don’t have a list, I just read all the works of any good author I come across
Happy New Year 🥂 How many books are on your #TBR for 2021??
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"We guessed that most of the authors would be white, but we were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data. Of the 7,124 books for which we identified the author’s race, 95 percent were written by white people." nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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BREAKING: Penguin Random House will buy Simon & Schuster. Our story is forthcoming.
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listen i will be naruto trash until i die and i have no regrets
DON'T BE SORRY, THIS IS INCREDIBLE
Still...want...to do pitch wars.... There's just a bunch of people in YA/NA who I think might understand Alois and I want this book to have everything.🥺👐💜
Soft tail, 2021 | everydayloveart.com
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I didn't have a book deal when I was a #PitchWars mentor in 2016 and 2017, and yet CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE and THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING still racked up over 70 requests. Just emphasizing Kate's point that writing and editing are two very different skillsets.
The cyanometer: a 230-year-old tool for measuring the blueness of the sky [read more: bit.ly/1ggsPOH]
“Greedy readers—I count myself as one—crave more than a confirmation of experience: we want writers to articulate that for which we haven’t yet found our own words, we want our senses to be made uncommon.” Yiyun Li on ‘War and Peace’: theparisreview.org/blog/2021/09/0…
The “villain has one sided, slightly sexual obsession with hero because they’re each other’s only equals” trope is sick and I’m obsessed
Ahh I can finally share the news! I'm making more books 🎉 I'm so excited to draw lots of adventures and a bunch of weird monsters.... and also a dog that looks suspiciously like my dog!!!
the existence of a submission period implies the existence of a domination period
God Bless the copy editors who have to deal with my stank behind 😂😂😂 I seriously appreciate them, even if I give them a hard time. Happy Belated Labor Day 🇯🇲
I be dreamin’ n shit. ☁️🧡 📸: @missallaneousm
i wish you kinder, softer days that put your heart at ease 🤍
I have been waiting to share this news for MONTHS! BEASTS OF PREY is going to be published internationally, across FIVE continents, and SIXTEEN countries, in more languages than I can speak! Thank you so much @PenguinTeen for letting me share my words around the world!
Some writers have that one story they want to share, and are happy with one book published. But some do want to keep writing and...don't or can't. This industry can chew you up and spit you out. Simply surviving and being able to put out new work puts you in the top 10%. 2/
If you're the kind of reader that dreads waiting for the next installment, consider these recently(ish) completed SFF series: tor.com/2021/08/13/fiv…