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Thanks for your answers. I'm noticing that the proposal process is becoming more and more restricted. With these forms, it's no longer possible to include graphics or show your recipe formatting skills. A "trap?" Not really, needing a different...

@BrianY It's no trap. I've completed hundreds of Querytracker forms over a number of projects (and I worship Querytracker. It really takes away the stress of keeping a record of which agent I've queried). But on the form, there's a question...

I choose voice over plot, although it's good to get both. (I tired reading a Lianne Moriarty once, but it wasn't for me. Plenty of voice, but not a voice I wanted to spend time with.) Voice makes me think of The Book of Form and Emptiness by...

I'm okay with any voice as long as it's strong and consistent. I'm listening to the Big Sleep for the Litopia Book Club and frankly am a bit lost on the plot, but the voice is just rumbling along so nicely I don't care!

We all know voice is something that comes from us and is the sum of our choices: what words we use, the syntax, the themes we write, the style, etc etc etc I've just finished a Harlen Corben novel, and his voice is so distinct. His choices are...

Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one. Jean Cocteau

Thanks Rachel :cool:

Welcome aboard @Stephen Giles :) You've got a lot on your plate atm, so sending you condolences and strength. Rachel has impeccable taste so I'm glad you followed the yellow brick Road to Litopia. Hope the op goes well. Cheers Rachel

Hello, Litopians. I just signed up here so I could leave a comment on Rachel McCarron's review of Queen Esther by John Irving, and subscribe to her newsletter. My gut told me to read her review instead of wading through Goodreads. The search...

I think most readers do and one reason kids dont read is it is dumbed down because of people like this.

Congrats! Go Jonny :)

Aww... thank you so much, Pete. That's really kind of you to post this. And glad you enjoyed last Friday's event. I'll show it to the band. They will be chuffed.

Never heard of him. I like looking up words and increasing my vocab. I think one or two new words a book makes my reading experience comfortable. It's so easy to look them up on the Kindle. V.E. Schwab uses "palimpsest" a number of times in The...

Congrats to our winners. Fabulous sentences :clapping-hands: :bottle-with-popping-cork::clapping-hands:

Love the historical bent to everything you do. So cool! Best of luck with it xx r