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That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

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Eighthworld Podcast Episode 7: DC Digital Comics Pull Ahead

Here’s the seventh episode of the podcast. Be sure to give it a listen! This time around, I discuss my love of digital comic books and how DC Comics in particular is adapting to that growing market.

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"What I talk about when I talk about comics”

Episode 9 is live!

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Eighthworld Podcast Episode 10: 10 Books from High School that Helped Sh…

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Quotable – Maya Angelou

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Eighthworld Podcast Episode 11: 7 Recent Fantasy Novel Recommendations

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In this post, our guest blogger gives us five reasons why verbs are more effective than adjectives.

It is important to add value to what you are selling. Whether you’re writing a blog, a cover letter for your resume, sales copy for a client, or a tweet, drawing the attention of your reader is what sets you apart.

There’s an information overload today and simplicity is not a luxury; it is a necessity. Using more verbs than adjectives makes your writing simple in multiple ways.

If you want publishers to like your work, use the right verbs. If you want your readers to keep visiting, use the right verbs. Adjectives, as extravagant as they can be, can be avoided when you are really sure of their purpose.

5 Reasons Why Verbs Are More Effective Than Adjectives

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Be kind always, but do not allow others to feel entitled to your kindness.

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Episode 2 of Eightworld Podcast:  More Star Trek & A Word About My Dad

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“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.” —Madeleine L'Engle

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Episode One from @eighthworldpodcast

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Happiness is a lit #candle, a #book, and a cup of #coffee.

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This is a rough draft of Episode Zero of Eighthworld. A little polishing and I’ll move it to official hosting and distribution. This is an opportunity for anyone following me to get an early preview of Eighthworld’s mission statement and have a listen to my voice. Let me know what you think, and please feel free to email me at any time at eighthworld.podcast@gmail.com. 

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Rosamond Lehmann was born 3 February 1901 and died 12 March 1990.

Quotes

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’. You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Trust your unhappiness like you trust your happiness.

Rosamond Lehmann was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, Dusty Answer, was a scandalous success and she became intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. She is also the author of Invitation to the Waltz. Lehmann was awarded the CBE in 1982.

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"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony