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Oddest Book Title of 2020

November 8, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Publishing

And here they are, the finalists for 42nd Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year: A Dog[…]

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10 Contranyms (with examples)

July 22, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

English is a confusing language. Simple words can have opposite meanings or different implications. It all depends on the context. Here’s some examples …

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Quote: Stephen King

June 6, 2020 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard[…]

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15 Polite Ways to Say Someone is Stupid

April 17, 2020 Geoff For Readers

The lights are on, but no one’s home. If his brain was dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow his[…]

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What the FAQ?

March 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

There’s and old saying that the computing industry is confusing mass of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and ETLAs (Extended Three-Letter Acronyms[…]

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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins

February 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Language

Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…

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A Short List of Short Novels

November 26, 2019 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]

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Free Books!

May 4, 2019 Geoff For Readers

A couple of my books have been selected by American author Mike Wells as part of his Mysteries & Thrillers[…]

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Harry Potter and the End of Chapter 3

July 27, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Publishing

Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]

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The danger of a single story

April 24, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

A fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]

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