![]() (I have 123 boards!)Īuthors can create a Pinterest board for each book. ![]() Users pin things they like onto topical boards. I also did one for the 150th anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg and one for Authorbuffyandrews. It’s a pretty robust way of curating and sharing content around a particular theme or event and its embeddable feature allows you to embed in a blog post or article web page. Posts that I manually add from various sources by inserting the url Tweets with the hashtag #Yearbookseries (set up to post automatically)ģ. Pins from “The Yearbook Series” Pinterest board. I created a RebelMouse page for “The Yearbook Series.”ġ. It’s a great way to aggregate content from your social streams, including Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, blogs etc. ![]() Of course, I did the usual Twitter and Facebook, but I also employed some other tools that you might not be quite as familiar with. When my debut novel, The Yearbook Series: Gina and Mike, was published, I shared the news via various digital platforms. Here’s Buffy’s post, with a note by me in italics. Buffy’s promoting her new novel (congratulations on getting that published, Buffy!), but you could use some of the same tools to promote an enterprise project, a special story, an event or your own career and portfolio of work. Thanks to Buffy Andrews for this guest post, which discusses different ways to promote your work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But they don’t know this yet.” On that plot point, the novel pivots. Recall the opening line in Leo Tolstoy’s epic paean to neurotic marriage, Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Well, Leo meet the Lees of Middlewood, Ohio, because the Kareninas have nothing on this perversely unhappy little Chinese-American clan of papa James - he’s the Chinese half of this marital duo - mama Marilyn - she contributes the old-stock Virginia bit - and their bi-racial progeny: son Nathan and daughters Hannah and LydiaĬeleste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, opens with the following line, “Lydia is dead. ![]() ![]() What did you love best about Escape Clause? "You mess around with Sparkle," Frankie told Virgil, "you could get yourself stabbed."ĥ stars for Virgil lovers. 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It is glaciered in assigned objects, it is petrified in repetitive cliched gestures. It clings to the face of television sets and movie screens. Desire clings to widgets, chairs, fridges, cars, perfumes, shoes, jackets, golf clubs, basketballs, telephones, water, soap powder, houses, neighbourhoods. We live in a world filled with commodified images of desire. It is sometimes impossible to tell what is real from what is manufactured. The word seems to me to fall apart under the pull and drag of its commodified shapes, under the weight of our artifice and our conceit. I experience something which, sometimes, if I pull it apart, I cannot make reason of. ![]() “I want to say something else about desire. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator, Serenus Zeitblom, Ph.D., a stuffy scholar who teaches high school during the Hitler years, looks back with much admiration at the life of his childhood friend Leverkühn. 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Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. ![]() We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. “But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary, the husband suggested, could collect Chum at the apartment and bring him along. After the show ended, Price proposed that the three of them motor to St. In fact, Etchison had turned up with the tickets that morning and suggested the outing. Etchison next to him.Įtchison and Price had accompanied Fridley Price to the play. Price, was at the wheel, with his friend and sometime business partner Charles D. Fridley Price sprawled on her back with a halo of blood around her head.Ībout an hour before, she had shared the roomy backseat of her 1913 Cadillac with Chum, the Cocker Spaniel she loved like the child she didn’t have. Now it was after 6 pm on a chilly fall night. It had been the final matinee performance of the comedy-musical The Prince of Pilsen at Minneapolis’s Metropolitan Theatre. ![]() On November 28, 1914, Mary Fridley Price, thirty-eight, lay by the rocky shore of the Mississippi River, still dressed in the fine blue tailored suit and furs she had worn to a play that afternoon. But by January 1916, that grieving husband was at the center of a sensational murder trial, accused of shoving her off the cliff for her money. ![]() The November 1914 death of Mary Fridley Price made the front page of the Minneapolis Journal: “Woman Killed in Attempt to Save Pet Dog.” Her grieving husband, Fred Price, told police she had fallen off a Mississippi River bluff in a vain attempt to keep her dog from going over. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things are starting to spiral out of control. To dig out their place in the world and make a stand. Thankfully, every single citizen of Yosemite is united to the cause. At the same time he must balance his expanding foundation and fend off external threats. Vince has begun to maneuver through the intricacies of ruling. Supporting him in his endeavors is his inner circle. Standing at the helm for Yosemite is Vince, a ranger turned city-state ruler. The empire of humanity to the west, and the wild wastes to the east. Now, Yosemite City stands as the gateway between two worlds. Before World War II could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. ![]() ![]() She needs to use all her powers of observation and deduction to solve the mystery. This is the first case for Agatha Christie's legendary female detective, Miss Marple. Each book includes: * Full reading of the adapted version available for free online * Helpful notes on characters * Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot * A glossary of the more difficult words * Free online resources for students and teachers at The plot: When Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study, it seems that almost everyone in the village of St Mary Mead had a motive to kill him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Level 5 is equivalent to CEF level B2+ with a word count of 22,000 - 30,000 words. This book is Level 5 in the Collins ELT Readers series. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. ![]() Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. ![]() |