#book creation

[gayandbasic]

Every book I’ve made in Tomodachi Life 💅

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GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE - LEX CROUCHER Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

 Gwen and Art Are Not In Love tells a tale as old as time - boy meets girl, both are gay, and a little queer clique is formed. 

The writing is funny, and all the characters are loveable. It features a lesbian knight! Watching the friendships and romances develop with a backdrop of court intrigue and knight tourneys was perfect. 

I assumed this was going to be a King Arthur retelling, it’s not at all. But it is set at Camelot a few hundred years from the actual events. Although it is an alternative history, social pushback still exists against defying gender norms (i.e., being a lady knight) and same-sex relationships. 

I will re-read this when I get my hands on a physical copy in November (for UK people, I think it came out in May, go read it now!!) 

Thanks to Wednesday Books for the eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

[troythecatfish]

[snipsnexus]

Howdy, have you ever wanted to read your fanfics as actual books? Have you ever had your wifi cut off and had nothing entertaining to read? You ever gone anywhere with your family and your data runs out?

Voila, I have a product for you! Its called Print Out Your Favorite Fics. Do it. Its easy. Its cheap.

A little guide under the cut on how to do so!

First, you want to create a new Google Doc. Fun. Its open. Good. Then, you want to hit the "File" button at the top, scroll down to the bottom where it says "Page Setup" and change the paper size from "Letter" to either "A5 or "Statement".

Good, now its going to be the actual size of a book and not words-printed-on-11×8-sheets! Now, go to your fic, a good one, but not too long. We got a max of 800 pages here, hun.

Copy it. All of it. All you want. If there's a part that triggers you? Leave it out. You don't need to remember that.

Then paste it, right into the Google doc. Boom! It looks.. well kinda big. You can CTRL+A and minimize all the text at once, or maximize it if the words are too small.

Then, you can go through and format it like an actual book! You know how, at the end of a chapter, even if its just a paragraph, the rest of the page will be blank to compensate for the beginning of the next chapter? Do that. Your life will be so much easier.

Also, you can do a little fun thing. Hit "Insert" and scroll down to "Page Numbers". Now you can brag to people about how long this book your reading is.

Once the document looks all nice and spiffy, hit the print button, but MAKE SURE you change the File Destination to "PDF".

Great! Now you got your file!

Go to any book printing website, I continuously use lulu.com, it is straightforward and extremely easy to navigate.

You can drop your file in, customize a cover or download a template to make your own. Make sure you remember to grab the description and put it on the back of the book! Also, credit where credits due, you can put the name of the author on the front cover as well!

Now, I recommend doing a paperback book, its usually half the price of the hardcover.

Anyway, that's all from me! Have fun and happy reading!

[ftmpirateking13]

Update

Things are coming along nicely but slow. I have started to remodel some of the character and make them seem more realistic. This isnt an easy task but i hope to get to writing Chapter ten or twelve by the end of august.

Here is the thing about books. A ton of work goes into them, from planning the story, the setting, and charscter developments to correcting grammar errors and making sure the story doesnt bore the reader. For example I have rewritten the first chapter alone about 6 times. Ive gone through and reread it several times to make sure nothing is grammarly incorrect.

Also with how i write i need visual. I need to draw things out before i can write them. I act it out in my heaf and write it down seperatly and add the things i like and rethink the things i don't.

Every writer is different but i find that having a seperate thing for word vomits is a great idea because it brings some ideas out and writing them down is the best way to remember them. Especially if you're loke me and forget what im doing five minutes from now.

[wlwbookshelf]

IRIS KELLY DOESN'T DATE - ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ashley Herring Blake has written another sapphic romance that I was barely able to out down until it was finished. Iris and Stevie are incredibly cute. The book is really successful take on fake dating that actually seems like a plausible reason two people could fake date! 

I loved seeing Bright Falls one last time, although I do wish there was two epilogues one for the Iris/Stevie and one for the whole cast! 

Based on this trilogy, any sapphic story Ashley Herring Blake writes will be an auto-buy for me. 

Many thanks to Berkley Publishing Group for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Iris Kelly is released today (Oct 24th) in the US!

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CLEAT CUTE - MERYL WILSNER Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lesbians and soccer, a pairing as old as time. A cute read in a world cup year. This book has Meryl’s trademark spice (so a lot of it, and it’s good), plus lovable main characters Phoebe and Grace are so compelling that I rushed through the book in a day. 

Many thanks to St Martin’s Press for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.