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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues below Rumaan AlamWriter’s block is a fiction. That’s not to say I always feel like writing, or that I have some big idea percolating. I don’t know if you can force out good sentences or great ideas, but that doesn’t mean you cannot

Today in Books rounds up news links from places from other than Book Riot, but we also cover news on the site, so here are the news stories we wrote about last week. Plus: a grab-bag of links that didn’t make into the regular daily sends, but still are worth a click. How Alabama Library

It’s the eyes I see first. That clear, direct gaze. Come and get it, she seems to be saying. Or maybe, I dare you. Article continues below Then the arms, bent at the elbows and wrists, with tapered fingers set on narrow hips. A defiant pose. Defy is a word I often associate with her.

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Christina, Queen of Sweden was born on a cold December night in 1626. Her father was the renowned warrior King Gustav II Adolph, her mother the beautiful German Princess Maria Eleonora; the couple had been married for six years and did not yet have a living child. Gustav was restless and Maria Eleonora lonely, until

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Since I write about new LGBTQ book releases every week on Our Queerest Shelves, I keep a giant spreadsheet of upcoming queer books, adding titles as soon as I learn about them. I follow approximately a million queer

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Lit Hub Daily: June 7, 2024 How do you tackle writer’s block? Leslie Jamison, Rumaan Alam, and more share their strategies. | Lit Hub Craft … View original source here

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here are the stories from the last week in Today in Books that you all found the most interesting, at least measured by the number of times you clicked through to read the story. In ascending order: Denis

In my second year of curating this list of debut LGBTQ+ authors on the books that shaped them as writers and members of the queer community, I’m thinking about language. Language as a means for the writer to discover and shape identity. Language as a point of connection between writer and reader experiences. Language as

Here is our daily round-up of what’s going on in the world of books: Publishers Sue Google over Pirate Sites  I was just having a conversation about a recent survey about audiobook consumption that had a pretty startling statistic: 47% of respondents report getting an audiobook through a file-sharing service or YouTube. And that reminded

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, is born.  How do you tackle writer’s block? Leslie Jamison, Rumaan Alam, and more share their strategies. | Lit Hub Craft “Language as something bold and entirely our own, something we can, as

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus Valerie Danners and her family belong to a conservative Christian community. She’s homeschooled as her parents prepare her to one day be a stay-at-home wife and mother. But even with her parents and everyone else in her community telling her what her future will look like, Valerie isn’t

June 6, 2024, 10:29am It’s been a confusing few days at the Philadelphia Free Library, with their entire Author Events programming staff resigning, before being abruptly fired, all of which set off a string of confusing announcements about future programs. The Author Events program is a celebrated series of events created in 1994 that brings

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round I had heard from a Book Riot reader that they were seeing some weird activity around the books section at their local Costco, so this story about Costco scaling back their

June 6, 2024, 10:24am Do you find yourself in the querying spirit this spring? Or have you, perhaps, a burning question for a literary icon? If yes or yes, consider checking out the second annual auction hosted by Literary Agents of Change, a nonprofit “dedicated to providing access, education, and support to individuals from historically

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Thrillers continue to be among the most popular books in the world right now. Whether you’re a longtime reader or eager to dip your toes into the genre, an excellent place to turn to are the International Thriller

June 5, 2024, 2:25pm Image from richardscarry.com Today would have been Richard Scarry’s 105th birthday, and it got me thinking about Busytown, the world created by Scarry and explored in dozens of books. Scarry’s busy world is populated with animals doing the work of humans, explored across page after densely illustrated, brightly colored page. The

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