A very quick post today.
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I mentioned it in the past – I love reading books about writing.
Handbooks, collections of essays, collections of interviews.
There’s always something useful – an insight, a suggestion, an idea.
Now, the StoryBundle guys have an offer up and running – six books about writing, freelancing and living the writing life, plus other six if you shell out enough cash.
The deal is pretty straight – you decide how much you pay, you decide how much goes to the authors, you decide if there’s a non-profit organization worthy of a 10% of your hard-earned money.
Considering that the full offer (six + six) included four titles that were already on my list, for me it was a no brainer.
Here’s the covers.
Think about it.
“A thing is not strange in itself; it depends on me to make it strange.”
GUO PU (preface to the Guideways through Mountains and Seas)
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OK, sorry but I have to share this.
I just got the best review ever on Amazon…
I can’t understand the enthusiasm of the previous reviews, the text is too short for an evaluation. Yeah, sure, it seems to be well written, but what evaluation can I make??
And so he went and gave it a One-star rating.
And so I went and blew twenty bucks and made a donation to the Film Noir Foundation.
These guys love noir movies as much as I do, and they are committed to the preservation of the old classics.
It is our mission to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged, and to ensure that high quality prints of these classic films remain in circulation for theatrical exhibition to future generations.
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