![]() ![]() Sue Burke is a translator, journalist and the author of Semiosis, Interference, Immunity Index and numerous short stories. Rate and review SFF Addicts on your platform of choice, and share us with your friendsĮMAIL US WITH YOUR QUESTIONS & OUR GUEST: Subscribe to the FanFiAddict YouTube channel, where this and every other episode of the show is available in full video Merch shop (for a selection of tees, tote bags, mugs, notebooks and more) ![]() Patreon (for exclusive bonus episodes, author readings, book giveaways and more) NOTE: This is part two of a two-part chat with Sue. During the episode, Sue breaks down the nitty gritty of revision, including why it's an important part of the writing process, approaches to first drafts, tools for revision and rewriting, how to keep track of characters and scenes, killing your darlings and more. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Revision & Rewriting with author and translator Sue Burke. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Seven years ago in the darkest parts of Chicago, Irish thugs Danny Carter and Evan McGann attempt to rob a pawn shop only to get caught by the owner. With all he loves on the line and nowhere to turn, Danny realizes his new life hinges on a terrible choice: how far will he go to protect his future from his past? A debut novel thats drawn comparison to Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Quentin Tarantino, The Blade Itself is the story of a good man held hostage by circumstance a riveting exploration of class, identity, and the demons that shape us, where every effort to do the right thing leads to terrifying consequences, and one inevitable conclusion The more you have, the more you have to lose. Having served his time without dropping Dannys name, his old friend believes hes owed major paybackand hes willing to do anything to get it. The prison-hardened Evan is barely recognizable. Until he spots his old partner staring him down in a smoky barroom mirror. Hes built a new world for himself: a legitimate career, a long-term girlfriend, and a clean conscience. Years later, Danny doesnt think about his past. Then a job went desperately wrong, and in the roar of a gun blast, everything changed. ![]() Danny Carter and his best friend Evan earned theirs knocking over pawnshops and liquor stores, living from score to score, never thinking of tomorrow. How far would you go to protect everything you love? On the South Side of Chicago, youre only as strong as your reputation. ![]() ![]() Morgan and Isabel, the waitresses, are basically composites of a lot of the girls I worked with at the Burrito, who always amazed me with their humor, emotion, and absolute loyalty to each other. Colie was different from my other narrators because she was so angry, and as a writer I really enjoyed getting into her voice. I think I got a lot more confident working there, and I wanted to use that experience to say something bigger about the fact that no matter how you look, it’s what is inside that gets you where you truly are meant to be. Keeping the Moon was the last book I wrote while working at the Flying Burrito, and because of that it is thick in all of my best waitress stuff. ![]() Raleigh News and Observer In Sarah’s Words Three cheers for Sarah Dessen for giving us Keeping the Moon and its two predecessors, and for digging deeper in each book for the real feelings of characters who will nourish our children for years to come. ![]() Rich in sharply observed relationships, deftly inserted wisdom, and romances ending and beginning, Dessen’s tale will leave readers thoughtful, amused, reassured-and sorry when it concludes. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you sell a book to Hollywood, you don't even worry about it. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. My own hopes for mystery, unpredictability, idiosyncrasy were largely unmet. "I think most of the audience, if it notices at all, will think, 'Gee, with $70 million, couldn't they have hired one more actor?' "īut as an action movie for kids, he says, "It's pretty successful. "In my opinion, that's a superficial attempt to inject some cheap psychology - it's not quite the same as writing a screenplay in which the issues of father and son relationships are discussed."īut he also wonders if anyone will notice. The business, for example, of the same actor (Jonathan Hyde) playing a young man's father and a ferocious white hunter trying to kill the grown-up version of the same young man. Also includes the wonderful Jumanji CD with. ![]() If you nudge him, he'll depart slightly from his party line and discuss some things that he perhaps didn't think highly of in the film. A beautiful Easton Press full leather edition signed by the author, Chris Van Allsburg, on the signature page. ![]() ![]() It sinks deep in your brain and stays there. His work has something of the magic clarity that Rousseau's sleeping guitar player being watched by a lion boasts. Buy a cheap copy of Jumanji book by Chris Van Allsburg. It's typical of the Van Allsburg technique: unbelievably refined realist technique expressing an idea that is basically non-rational and in some way unknowable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, those who oppose technology or alleged technological “progress” have been called “Luddites.” Whether or not the historical Luddite revolutionaries have been misunderstood, today the term “Luddite” has hardened into a tool we use to brand an individual as irrationally fearful of and overly reactionary to new technologies.Īmong twentieth century thinkers on the subject of technology, the French scholar Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), author of the well-known book, The Technological Society (1954), would seem to be an obvious candidate for the term “Luddite.” Ellul’s obituary in the New York Times quotes Alvin Toffler, author of Futureshock, who described Ellul as “one of the most extreme” of “a generation of future haters and technophobes.” And Ellul does not make it easy to avoid such judgments. This movement of workers’ protests coalesced under the mythical leader, King Ludd a character inspired by the story of Ned Ludd, an eighteenth century man who apparently destroyed two stocking frames in a fit of rage one day. ![]() ![]() In the early nineteenth century, groups of British textile workers destroyed the newer power looms and other textile machinery in protest of the working conditions at the time. ![]() ![]() ![]() What readers are saying about LOST IN TOKYO: Could these memories be real? If so, maybe her mother can be found. ![]() As they explore the wonders of Japan, Erin finds herself haunted by strange "memories" that seem to belong to her mother. While struggling with the tension that now dominates their once innocent friendship and the trauma stirred up from Erin's painful past, Erin and Adam visit the places on her mother's list. Hours after they arrive in Tokyo, in a jet-lagged fog, Erin and Adam end up in bed together. Erin has decided to carry out this itinerary, believing that it might help her find her mother.īut Erin's trip won't be going according to plan. Erin's only clue to her mother's possible whereabouts is a hand-written itinerary for a dream trip to Japan, a trip that Erin doesn't know if her mother ever had the chance to take. When Erin was just four years old, her mother mysteriously vanished. Nineteen-year-old Erin is hoping that her visit to Japan with her best friend, Adam, will be life-changing. I would absolutely recommend this book." - Amy, Goodreads ★★★★★ ![]() "Full of heartbreak, loss and finding yourself while falling in love with your best friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All of them have something they want to escape – or to hold on to. Esme's guests provide the colour that helps her keep her grip on the world. without her husband Niamh, the city professional with a life-changing decision to make and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely. From her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life. Esme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they needed. People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() Of course, as this book is about the holidays and as Lady Catherine de Bourgh is now technically Lizzy’s aunt, you can also expect family drama to be present in high doses as well. Historically situated in Regency England, before the holiday season evolved into its present monumental proportions, Jeffers’ novel attempts to capture the simple lessons of the holiday season of which she considers love, strong family ties, and generosity to be at its core. The author of several Jane Austen adaptations, including Darcy’s Passions and Darcy’s Temptation among others, Regina Jeffers returns with the appropriately-timed release of Christmas at Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Holiday Sequel. Historical Mystery, Thriller, or Suspense Fiction. ![]() ![]() Historical Fantasy, Paranormal, or Gothic Fiction. ![]() ![]() My mistake! For starters, Tunnelsby British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams does not have dragons, wizards or magic (at least not in the first book in the series.) and it is not fantasy! It is solidly science fiction, a brilliant mix of Jules Verne, Charles Dickens and a little Mark Twain all rolled into one fantastic, innovative, utterly creative plot that is so rich and detailed that I was on the edge of my seat for most of the book. I have become so weary of the constant presence of dragons and magic in books since Harry Potterand Eragon hit the shelves that I often don't even read the jacket flaps of most of the fantasy that is published these days. ![]() It was tagged, as are most non-reality based kid's books published recently, as the next Harry Potter. This was one of those books that I avoided when it first came out in January of 2008 because of the hype that surrounded it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the Germania, which, like the Agricola, often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. ![]() The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. ![]() |