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Fellow book lovers, happy Sunday to you all! The moment we've all been waiting for is here – the reveal of the Famous Authors word puzzle answers! Check your guesses below and pat yourself on the back for each correct one! If you got them all correct, you're a true literary detective! If not, don't fret, it's all about celebrating the magic of literature! Keep exploring new authors and their captivating wisdom and tales! #AuthorsPuzzleAnswers #SundayBookFunday #TargetedAudienceReach #SocialMediaGuru #MarketingConsultan #InfluencerCollabs

A work in progress! Best-selling novelist, the Anglo-Canadian author Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), is recorded as having said of his fictional characters: "I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life." When readers open a book by this author, they encounter ordinary people who have been placed, by the author, in extraordinary situations. Do you realise that Father God often does the same thing?! Read more at www.crazyrev.blogspot.com (a non-commercial blog!)

Here is my new book called Chronological Order. It is a compilation of short stories and poems from 2014-2021, with one from 1988. Love to hear what you think. https://lnkd.in/gSMQec7Y

Dive into the enchanting world of translated fiction! 🌟 Explore our Book of the Week, a tale that transcends borders and invites you on a literary journey. #BookOfTheWeek #TranslatedFiction

Welcome to the Hawkeye family, Kyle Anthony! Kyle's novel, This Australian Story, an Australian Contemporary Literary Fiction, is due for release later this year. To stay up to date of all the latest news regarding this and other releases, subscribe to our newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gFnt4rYc #hawkeyepublishing #literaryfiction #fictionbooks #fiction #fictionwriting

Writing fiction is a mystery to many people. Why would you write something that isn't true? My answer: Oh but it is! Author and Writing Coach extraordinaire Charlotte Rains Dixon sends her subscribers a weekly "Love Letter," and her most recent missive included these wise words: " . . . even though a novel is fictional, it’s also only worthwhile if it’s also true. And by that I mean that the characters have to experience things that change them and show them truths. It has to be emotionally true." (You can follow Charlotte on Substack here: https://lnkd.in/gA8jQ4S2) Another take on truth in fiction appears in a Suppressed Histories Archive article. According to the article, Anne Brontë, the lesser-known Brontë sister, defended her version of fiction as truth thusly: “When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear. To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is doubtless the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of life to the young and thoughtless traveler, or to cover them with branches and flowers? O Reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts – this whispering 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.” https://lnkd.in/gc_42Vgn

Are you a fan of historical fiction? Immerse yourself in another era and learn about significant historical events with these captivating reads: The Help, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Memoirs of a Geisha. Which one will you choose to transport you back in time? #HistoricalFiction #BookRecommendations #ReadingList #Author #ReadingGoals #LiteraryLife #booknews

I'd like to mention a wonderful book that I recently had the honour of copyediting. 'The Flitting' by Ben Masters is an autobiographical novel describing the relationship between a son and his dying father, who bond through their shared interest in butterflies. Into the moving account of his father's final months (I cried twice while working on the book!), the author skilfully weaves in discussions on pop culture, masculinity and literature, using butterflies as a metaphor. This book works brilliantly on many levels. https://lnkd.in/djyMk2T8