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14/03/2018
This is the most dangerous time for our planet | Stephen Hawking

Instead of platitudes about resting in peace or lamentations about losing a brilliant mind, let's honour Professor (and prolific author) Stephen Hawking by taking a moment to read his words that he desperately wanted us to take seriously:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality

We can’t go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it

28/08/2017

Having professional quality visual media makes a big difference to a brand's impact, and the resultant sales that the brand in question can enjoy.

Eternal Inkwell Productions' logo and social media cover photo are by artist Ieva Binderytė.

If you'd like such a talent working on visual media for *your* business, hit her up, as she is currently welcoming commissions. First come, first served.

10/08/2017
Amazon: How to get your book to appear alongside the Best Sellers [Winning blog idea July] - BookMachine

An "ethical hack" for indie / small to survive the cut-throat climes of the Amazon arena:

https://bookmachine.org/2017/08/08/amazon-get-book-appear-alongside-best-sellers

Ever looked at a blockbuster book in your book genre and wished, “if only I could get my book to appear along side it?” Maybe you are a historical fiction writer wanting your book to appear next to Philip Kerr’s latest novel, or a romance novelist wanting your book next to Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Have...

07/07/2017

How about yours?

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Image description: An open book (not enough text legible to easily identify it) on grass, text overlay reading "What is one book that has significantly changed the way you think about the world?"

Image credit: Waterstamped "Collectively Conscious", though it's probably they merely added the caption. Actual source unknown.

03/07/2017

What's the last book that gave you a "book hangover"?

Book hangover /bʊkˈhæŋəʊvə/ n.

1. The inability to start a new book because one is still living in the last book's world
2. The struggle of trying to reconnect with reality after finishing a really amazing book, esp. if including:
3. The apparent catatonia that results of having just lived through an emotional roller-coaster that surrounding people don't understand because it didn't happen in external reality

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* Image description: a woman suffering from a book hangover (q.v.).
* Image credit: unknown

21/06/2017

A joyous to all! A great time to relax with a book, whichever hemisphere you may be in.



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* Image description: A cat curled up on an open book. In the background, cool sunlight streams in through a window, and birds are seen flying in a flock.

* Image credit: Unknown

31/05/2017
Lines of Spines

"What is a library? In the 21st century, more than ever, a library is a place that helps us realize that we are all part of each other"

A library can also do this job when merely conceptual; books that one has read / that one plans to read / that one is interested in reading.

http://thesmartset.com/lines-of-spines/

29/05/2017

One for : a review (by an ex-serviceman) of a book (also by an ex-serviceman) about being an ex-serviceman:

I appreciated this book; nor was I surprised to see from the author bio that Cruit is also ex-Army.

This book has an authenticity to it not generally found in books pertaining to military service written by those who haven’t served, even those who have done good research and don’t make glaring technical errors.

The vast majority of this book concentrates on the time after the protagonist gets out, but it is said “once a soldier, always a soldier”, and there are definitely many things that stick. Once of those things that stick is a changed perspective on society, people in general, how people behave, the banality of existence and the fragility of life. Also: the ability to deal with a lot of things that most people can’t, while potentially struggling with others; many things seem small and petty in comparison to things that have gone before, while others seem now of enlarged importance. Cruit gives time to all of this and more, and without succumbing to self-aggrandizement, despite the apparent author-insert (I suspect that Michael Cruit and Michael Dibiaso may share more than just their first name and ex-serviceman status).

Some may read this for the (admittedly first-rate) crime story of Dibiaso’s forays back into civvy street, but for me, that was just the backdrop to the exploration of humanity and society, life and loss.

A must-read book for any wanting to understand ex-military folk; also a good crime novel in its own right.

"Pallbearers and Gamblers" is by Michael Cruit and is available from Amazon, currently at a discounted rate.

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29/05/2017

Bookworm Anakin finds your lack of faith disturbing.

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Image description: Text reading: Someone: "You can't finish this book in a day." Me: [picture of Anakin Skywalker, or strictly speaking, the newly minted Darth Vader, on Mustafar, during his climactic battle with Obi-wan] "You underestimate my power."

25/05/2017

Shippers gonna ship, for anniversary! Feeling justified in sharing here since while the movies are of course much better known, far more of Star Wars canon comes from the novels and similar.

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Image description: A series of comic style panels; Darth Vader Force-chokes a Stormtrooper, who responds by saying "Harder Sir". Darth Vader asks "What?" to which the Stormtrooper in turn replies "What?".

19/05/2017
How Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently

Putting to bed the tired accusation that venerating books over TV is intellectual snobbery.

The reality is that is an active process that involves a lot more processing (handling the language of descriptions, creatively rendering the visuals, and so forth) and thus a noteworthy cognitive benefit.

TV on the other hand, even if ostensibly the same content (say, a TV dramatization, such as the "Game of Thrones" TV show from the "Song of Ice and Fire" book series), is mostly a passive process and has deleterious effects to counterbalance the positives that it may offer.

https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-books-and-television-affect-your-brain-differently-according-to-science-82c3b14f789b

Avid readers, take note.

17/05/2017

Here's to good proofreading, this .

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Image description: Top part shows a Facebook post with text that reads "REALLY !!! the next door neighbor has a new Dog that will not stop baking." To illustrate this, some helpful soul has added an image beneath depicting a golden retriever in a kitchen, wearing an apron, ostensibly baking (its paws on on a rolling pin; there is dough on the board). The image is captioned "I do what I want."

15/05/2017

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Image description: Two frames; in the first, a dragon sits cross-legged reading a book entitled "Deep breathing exercises". It reads: "For peace of mind and body, first take a deep, deep breath. Then, very slowly, exhale...". In the second frame, the dragon follows this instruction and engulfs the book in flames. It opines "I should have bought the audiobook".

11/05/2017

Shippers gonna ship.



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Image description: Caption in top part reads "When characters won't admit their feelings for each other even though its so obvious". Bottom part of image has a movie still of Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean, yelling "JUST KISS!" (in this scene, he was performing a wedding on deck while engaged in pitched battle in a storm, and kept getting interrupted around the part of "You may k—").

10/05/2017

"Alcohol. Because no great story ever began with a glass of milk."

:p

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Image description: A "some ecards" cartoon depicting partying people, and the words "Alcohol. Porque ninguna gran historia comenzó jamás con un vaso de leche". Bellow that, a still from the movie "A Clockwork Orange", based on the book of the same name, depicting Alex and his droogs in the Korova Milk Bar, drinking Milk Plus. In the final frame, a close-up of Alex's face his trademarked twisted smile and asymmetrical eyelashes.

08/05/2017

Having such "muses" does get things written :p , honestly.

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Image description: two stick figures; one seated at a desk, the other holding a gun to the former's head, saying "Write the %&!$@ # story!".

Caption reads: "The Muse most of us really need"

19/04/2017

Minimalism while still having an expansive library!

(Beautiful e-books coming soon at EternalInkwell.com)

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Image description: in an Edwardian style drawing room, a man in a suit sits in an armchair smoking a pipe. Nearby, another man in a suit looks at a small collection of e-readers on a large and otherwise empty bookcase. The caption reads "Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader... I say, Hardwick, this sure is an impressive library."

Image credit: Jeffery Koterba

09/04/2017

Book of the Week: "Alibi Aficionado" (Harvey Church)

Although almost no character gets his name right, Edgar Burrows is a brilliant narrator and protagonist.

What makes Edmund Burrows such a fun character? Well, despite a broken marriage, problems with authority, and frequent drunkenness / hangovers, he’s not your typical detective, and instead brings his own distinctive flavour to the role.

Egmont is an accountant, but don’t let that fool you; as he’d be the first to say, humour comes naturally to him — albeit usually not how he intended. He approaches life with a mystical combination of self-deprecatory humility and reckless optimism, and on any given occasion one could flip a coin over whether this will work out for him.

One refreshing change from the norm for the detective genre is that Egbert is rarely “the smartest guy in the room”, and on the contrary, is quite conscious of being propped up by clever people around him, with his boss’s daughter his main ally in this regard, and is constantly afraid that he’s on the verge of being fired for one thing or another.

Another thing that really stood out to me is that usually I see most plot twists a mile off, and in this book I was lucky if my understanding of the case was a page or so ahead of Emil’s — and yet there was also nothing unreasonably obfuscated, of the kind that often occurs in Sherlock Holmes stories, where he received some vital clues in a manner to which the reader never had access. Instead, he mostly bungles his way through the case until he gets what he needs to provide the alibi for his firm’s top client — before going on, as though as an encore, to solve the actual case itself (albeit by accident).

I’ll certainly be looking forward to the follow-up works by this author, and I’m sure I’ll especially delight in reading about the further misadventures of Elvira Burrows, CPA.

Edward Burrows is a detective you'll quickly love, for all his faults.

price: $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Alibi-Aficionado-Edwin-Burrows-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01MZ57KC0

The above review is provided purely in the spirit of connecting readers with great books, and EIP does not receive anything for this posting or your purchase.

Alibi Aficionado is not published by Eternal Inkwell Productions, and EIP does not formally launch until the end of the month. You can check the countdown here:

http://www.EternalInkwell.com

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Image description: A book cover; background is a matchbox partially open, with match-heads showing in the top part

06/04/2017

When it's but you have books to read!

New meaning to "What's your favourite position?"

02/04/2017

Today is . A lot of people point out that autism doesn't need awareness; autistic people need acceptance, and in fact have a lot to bring to the table, sometimes including great new books.

Great new books *do* need awareness, so to this end, EIP's first "Book of the Week" review is a book by author Carl Lakeland, and it's a well-written and engaging page-turner that stands out from the crowd:

MILESTONE: Project Amber

The book sets itself apart in terms of defying many of the tropes that would usually go with such a book, and also in terms of having more layers of creativity than your standard “try to avert the apocalypse” story.

We have a strong female lead who (to first give a nod to a trope not averted) admittedly has the usual tragic backstory, but this is neither all-consuming not distracting; it simply explains her absent parents and sets up a family mystery arc. Whether the dead father returns or not remains to be seen, as this is the first book in a trilogy, and it is stealth sci-fi; that is to say it stars as a spy / war story, and becomes more and more sci-fi as we progress, with the addition of extra-terrestrials and advanced technologies.

As for Angel, the protagonist, she’s strong, but she’s not a quasi-flawless Mary-Sue either, and she’s as likely to screw up or not as any other character. We learn very little about her looks and we aren’t hit with a stack of informed abilities rivaling James Bond. In Angel we also have a broadly le***an main character who’s neither sexualized nor tokenized, and who certainly isn’t there for voyeuristic titillation or stereotyping. It just happens to be her orientation.

There are a lot of plot twists, and if the book has any unnatural feel to it at all that’d be worth mentioning in the category of criticism, it’s that sometimes important plot-changing events will happen over the course of a paragraph and be at most obliquely referenced elsewhere. This author definitely doesn’t over-explain things. I like that, because life can be like that and it adds realism, but not everyone will.

For an author who ostensibly (from his bio) has no military experience, it was well-researched enough that I wondered while reading, as only a couple of small things suggested gaps in knowledge of military kit or procedures, and they could have just been artistic licence (and less so that most fictional works not written by ex-military folks).

All in all, a great book well-written.

price: $14.80
price: $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/MILESTONE-Project-Amber-Suspense-Novel-ebook/dp/B01N7XRT9A

The above review is provided purely in the spirit of connecting readers with great books, and EIP does not receive anything for this posting or your purchase.
Project Amber is not published by Eternal Inkwell Productions, and EIP does not formally launch until the end of the month. You can check the countdown here:

http://www.EternalInkwell.com

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Image description: Book cover; title reads "Project Amber" in glowing orange tones fading through to metallic white. At the bottom, the author's name is listed, "Carl Lakeland", and the subtitle "The MILESTONe Trilogy Book One". The book cover is mostly black, and in the centre we see a silhouetted person descending a staircase towards the viewer, holding a flashlight. At the top of the staircase we can see the outside world burning, with what looks like it could be a mushroom cloud.

20/03/2017

Having professional quality visual media makes a big difference to a brand's impact, and the resultant sales that the brand in question can enjoy.

Eternal Inkwell Productions' logo and social media cover photo are by artist Ieva Binderytė.

If you'd like such a talent working on visual media for *your* business, hit her up, as she is currently welcoming commissions. First come, first served.

20/03/2017

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