Puddleducky's creator. I have loved Beatrix potter since I was small, but she was more than a children's book writer and illustrator. She was also a sheep breeder and judge, and was the driving force behind bringing back the ancient Herdwick sheep breed to the Lake...See More »
Who is your favorite author?I'm curious as to who is everyone's favorite author? I don't really have a favorite and always looking for different authors to read.
What's the best author to read while on the toilet?I find Dostoevsky really hits the spot for those LONG bowel movements
Mapping out the author's family tree from an article I found online written by one of the family members. So interesting. The family is socially tied to some big names of our subcontinental history 🫠 so exciting. I could share the article if someone's interested.
I enjoy writing and do you have any recommendations on true crime authors?I'm preparing on writing several manuscripts about people just up and vanishing in thin air. I know I can't be the only one who finds it absolutely horrific. How do people not deemed murdered, not officially abducted, but end up missing in cold case...See More »
I want to write a story between myself and my close friend. Which of us should be immortal and which should be invincible? Poll (16) See Poll Options Thanks for the answers in advance 😄❤️ The red one or the black one
A few more authors to addFlaubert Pushkin Gogol & Turgenev An unexpected checque came in the mail, so why not eh? These little additions make it even more necessary to read a minimum of 8 hours a day. 8 hours is like the normal time regular folk work, so that's a...See More »
Can we co author a murder mysteryWhere someone on SW posts "excited to meet my crush tomorrow" then they're murdered and we have to figure out who on SW dunnit.
Sigrid Undset - an author to look forward toFirst saw this name in a comments grouping her with Ibsen and Strindberg, didn't look further till browsing Amazon, and there was that name again, it's kismet!! Norway's Elena Ferrante goes a blurb, so that's good to know. I put 5 volumes in the...See More »
Yesterday, Salmon Rushdie was stabbed up to fifteen times.He was scheduled to give an address on "Free Speech." However, a group that is furious with him had offered a $3,000,000 bounty on him for a book he published about thirty years ago.
Author radar - William T. Vollmann 2 series of his catch my eye Rising Up and Rising Down - would cost 3 month's worth of savings from eBay, there is a single volume condensation but could i really settle for that? and Seven Dreams (i'm going by the wikipedia page here, #'s 4 and 7...See More »
I Am A Self Published AuthorOnce upon a time, a self-published author had two books published on Amazon. Now the books are just sitting there, languishing, and not being sold. On the one hand, it's nice to be able to bypass the traditional route of sending your manuscript to...See More »