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Listen to the dogman, folks. The dogman sees all.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bestsellers #WritingCommunity #IndyPublishing

https://www.amazon.com/Dent-Universe-W-Doc-Parris-ebook/dp/B0BWK3KHFJ/

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read !
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
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This should be a candidate for one or more Sci-Fi awards. A mind- bending story filled with unexpected twists and turns, with enough science to give one pause regarding the plausibility of such events. Given the propensity of current AI's to be far less reliable than predicted, it is quite likely that advanced AI will slip its tether for reasons its developers never even considered . . .

174d

What the…ANOTHER five star review on Amazon for "The Dent in the Universe"? I feel like my debut novel is finding its readers.

https://www.amazon.com/Dent-Universe-W-Doc-Parris-ebook/dp/B0BWK3KHFJ

#SelfPublishing #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi #AmReading #Bookstodon #BookBlogger #BestSeller #GoodReads @bookstodon

Five Stars.
Really fun, hard scifi.
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
Verified Purchase
Lately l've been reading a ton of hard scifi, and this book is that...and so much more. Equal parts action, horror, and even drama, I can honestly say the description of this book doesn't do it much justice. I started and finished this book in a day or two (work gets in the way, natch) and loved every second of it. The science behind the engineering is legit and it has a fresh take on the downsides to time-travel. Can't wait for the next book in the series!

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Another five star review for "The Dent in the Universe" over on GoodReads. (And Book 2 is coming this year. Stay tuned!)
#SelfPublishing #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi #AmReading #Bookstodon #BookBlogger #BestSeller #GoodReads @bookstodon

William S.
5 stars
March 24, 2024
Non linear
Excellently written. One glaring inconsistency at the end just before the epilogue. Not a time travel book, but a time manipulation story. The story is written linearly, but because of the time manipulation, the reader gets facts and scenes out of order so that one is always guessing, and involved with determining the explanation as to why something previously read turned out the way it did. You're therefore left with a kind of mix of sci-fi and who done it. The story concludes with some questions unanswered although they can be reasonably predicted. There's a promise of a book two, but I have difficulty believing it can live up to the excitement exhibited by book one.

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A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

Black and white photo of a pack horse librarian delivering books to a woman standing on the high front porch of a cabin in rural Kentucky in 1938.

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AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.

https://flip.it/ekbDMe

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Science #Foraging #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

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Y'ALL.
FINALLY.

MY NEWEST BOOK IS OUT. 😃🥳🎶💃😁

THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!

Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.

https://www.amazon.com/Accursed-Courtney-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B0CVSKRTP2/

#fantasy
#WritingCommunity
#indie
#bookstodon
#YA

The front cover of THE ACCURSED by Courtney Cantrell:
We see a deep forest of dark greens and muted blues, populated by tall, straight trees. Patches of light reveal a mossy forest floor and tree roots. A bumpy, earthen path extends from the bottom left corner generally toward the center and is lost among the trees.
In the lower half of the image, a girl with long, frizzy, reddish hair stands on the path. She is wearing a long-sleeved off-white blouse and a long maroon skirt. She has her back to the viewer. In the top right corner of the image shines an impossible yellow star that illuminates only the girl.
The title is in off-white Canto Brush font, located near the top of the image. The author's name is in off-white P22 Mackinac Pro font, located at the bottom of the image.

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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Towel Day artwork by Lemonly: https://lemonly.com/blog/celebrating-douglas-adams-on-towel-day

#TowelDay #TowelDay2024 #DouglasAdams #DontPanic #books #bookstodon #quote

Cartoon graph with the words: "Towel Day Celebrate Douglas Adams May 25, wear a towel Towel day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" .
On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honor.

Don't Panic. Use a Towel.

Use it to sail a miniraft down the slow, heavy River Moth.

Wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal.

Sleep under it beneath the stars , which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon.

Wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat.

And if it is still clean, you may use the towel to dry off.

Each prompt has a little cartoon above it depicting the action described.Beneath the cartoons are the words: "For more information about Towel Day visit: www.towelday.org Created by Lemonly"

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If y'all have space for some non-political reading, give my just-published #editing blog a gander. It features one of my favorite peers, Deb Eckerling.

"Make a Plan to Jumpstart Your Book With Debra Eckerling"

#Books #Writing #Proofreading #Publishing #Goals #amediting #Bookstodon @edibuddies

https://pamelabarroway.com/2024/07/01/make-a-plan-to-jumpstart-your-book-with-debra-eckerling/

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finished reading Før kaffen bliver kold 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

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Some new translations of my books are now out and available! Taiwanese translation of all the Little Shop of Nightmares-books and the Grumblebelly Cat are out, as well as the Norwegian Horned God, Hornguden.

Hornguden is translated by Morten Abildsnes, but I'm afraid I'm unable to tell you who translated the Taiwanese books since I can't read the characters. 😔

#Bookstodon #TranslatedBooks

Four illustrated children's book on a lawn.

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Four copies of the Hornguden on a wooden ladder chair. There's also some cacti and a rusty old oil lamp for the ambience.

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All six volumes (three volumes of the annotated edition + three volumes of the unannotated edition) locked and loaded in Amazon. Assuming I can appease the content moderators, they will be ready to purchase Sunday 1. September. As soon as I get approval, I will do my best to link to the edition pages.

(I would have liked a lower price, but Amazon demands more money than everyone in the world.)

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

Presented in three volumes, The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe includes every folktale and legend published by the collectors, more than 300 illustrations, Jørgen Moe's 58-page introduction to the folktales, prefaces from eight original editions, and the collectors' notes, which sketch out alternative variants and compare the Norwegian folktales with those of other regions. Most of this material has never appeared in English before. Newly-researched editor's notes on every folktale and legend, listing collection data, and publication and translation history are also included. Lastly, a comprehensive bibliography has been appended to each volume.

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This article will be updated with links to the books, when they become available:

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe

SUNDAY 1. SEPTEMBER

150 folk narratives, fully illustrated and comprehensively annotated

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN ENGLISH

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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 1

#Kirjamastodon #Bookstodon

Finnish author Tuula Kallioniemi's children's book Se salaperäinen punatukka. The cover is featuring some blue ferns and a red headed young girl.

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I wish old books were properly digitised and available as ePubs.

My brain suddenly had a hankering to read "The Intergalactic Omniglot".

It seems there's only a 2nd hand paper-version for sale 😢

Also - isn't it cool how the kid on the cover has a foldable device? Pretty cool for 1988.

#Books #Bookstodon

Paperback book cover. A UFO rises behind a young man. The Boy is holding what looks like a foldable Gameboy.

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Which edition will you buy, come 1st September?

The Annotated Edition is the most comprehensive edition of Asbjørnsen & Moe that has ever been published in any language. You get all 150 folk narratives (122 folktales, 28 hulder tales and folk legends), original prefaces from eight editions, Jørgen Moe’s substantial scholarly introduction to the Norwegian folktales, more than 350 illustrations by Theodor Kittelsen, Erik Werenskiold, Otto Sinding, Hans Gude, Adolph Tidemand, August Schneider, Johan Eckersberg, etc. Asbjørnsen’s and Moe’s original notes on the majority of the folktales, newly-researched editor’s notes on every folktale and hulder tale and folk legend, a comprehensive bibliography in each volume.

If you choose the Just the Stories edition, you get all 150 folk narratives published by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) and Jørgen Moe (1813-1882), arranged according to the order of Samlede eventyr (3 vols. Oslo: Gyldendal. 1936), which has become the standard Norwegian edition. Three folktales have been added to the collection for the first time. This edition is fully illustrated with artwork by Theodor Kittelsen, Erik Werenskiold, Otto Sinding, Hans Gude, Adolph Tidemand, August Schneider, Johan Eckersberg, etc. Here, however, there are no introductions and no appendices of notes, following Asbjørnsen’s revelation that to many readers, “the scholarly appendices are an insignificant, unimportant, or incomprehensible ballast, which also makes such a book disproportionately more expensive.”

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #Folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

Cover mockups of the two editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. Which edition will you buy, come 1st September?

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#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

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It's time for a few #WalrusTech series announcements.
The 2nd book in the series, The Aurora's Pale Light, will be launching on November 29th, 2024.

If you'd like to get a glimpse at the cover, watch this space! The cover art will be revealed on September 11th, 2024, with pre-orders announced shortly thereafter.

Tell all your #bookreader friends and lovers of dark #sciencefiction.

#WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #AmReading #SecretSciFiNetwork
@bookstodon

The Aurora's Pale Light: Book 2 of the epic walrustech series cover reveal will take place on 9-11-2024

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wants to read Birgithe med th

#bookstodon

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Hallo alle!

Ich bin nicht #neuhier aber möchte ein bisschen meine Bubble auffrischen.

Gerade bin ich eher leise, meistens gibt's von mir Geschichten aus dem Alltag oder Gedanken zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen und zur Gesellschaft. Mein Problem ist, ich will alles wissen. 😂

Sagt gerne hallo. Ich bin auch interessiert an Lebensrealitäten, die anders sind als meine.

Themen die mich interessieren:
#neurodivergent #ADHS #Nachhaltigkeit #Balkongarten #Bouldern #Wandern #Geschichte #Bookstodon #Natur

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My eBook Things dipped in gold can't grow, is now available on Kindle, in two versions, link below.

For those of you who want to buy it directly from me, both versions are also available on my website, link below.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC5M6FJQ

https://marialivgallery.com/books/

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #Bookstodon #Writing

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I'm not above a cheap meme to remind y'all that the cover reveal for THE AURORA'S PALE LIGHT: Book Two of the Epic WalrusTech Universe is happening in just 3 weeks!
(Also to let you know that the GoodReads page is up and you can add it to your "To read" shelf right NOW! https://goodreads.com/book/show/217566673-the-aurora-s-pale-light)
#Bookstodon #BookReaders #amReading #WritingCommunity #SelfPublishing

Mallory McMorrow holds up a giant book announcing the cover reveal for The Aurora's Pale Light.

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Here it is, my latest book, and my first one in Swedish! Lilla boken om Panos: historien om den ikoniska badmodedesignern is now out in Sweden, and looks at the swimwear designs of Panos Papadopoulos from the 1980s through to 2020. More at https://lucire.com/insider/20240831/the-latest-little-book-is-out-showcasing-panos-papadopouloss-swimwear/ published by Tukan förlag, and available now through Adlibris, Bokus, and other retailers in Sweden and Finland.

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/lilla-boken-om-panos-historien-om-den-ikoniska-badmodedesignern-9789180385831
https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789180385831/lilla-boken-om-panos-historien-om-den-ikoniska-badmodedesignern/ #book #history #fashion #mode #moda #bok #swimwear #trends #bookstodon

Cover of Lilla boken om Panos: historien om den ikoniska badmodedesignern, with brown type and an orange background.

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Spread from Lilla boken om Panos: historien om den ikoniska badmodedesignern, showing five images from the late 1990s when Victoria Silvstedt modelled for Panos Emporio. Four images are in a smaller format, the fifth is on the right and occupies the entire page.

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Release day.

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe is finally available in English.

Amazon is increasingly flaky, so I won't be able to see the books before they arrive from America in three weeks or so, but I hope they are as nice to look at and handle as they are entertaining and informative.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has encouraged my work and/ or contributed monetarily towards the editing.

If you have any editing needs, I warmly recommend the services of @wolfofthewisp, who brings flexibility, good arguments, and sound judgement to editorial discussions.

I have put links to the individual volumes of the two editions of Asbjørnsen & Moe here:

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #Folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

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