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Friday Links: An Assortment of Building Blocks for Writers

Nephele Tempest

TGIF! I hope you’ve all had a terrific week, and have some equally terrific plans lined up for your weekend. It’s the final weekend in February, so it might be a good time to take a quick peek at your goals for the last month and for the year and see how you’re doing so far. Are you on target? Are there some areas where you might do a little better? Set aside an hour or so to check in with yourself so that you can steer the ship back in the right direction if need be, or by all means treat yourself to a mini celebration if you’re ahead of you’re ahead of the game. But regardless of where you are, it’s important to do these small reviews periodically throughout the year so you won’t be facing big surprises come December.

But of course it wouldn’t be Friday without Friday Links. I have a great assortment for you this week and I hope you’re inspired to do some new writing or work on your current project as a result. Enjoy, and happy writing!

Comma Queen: “Awesome” Is the New “Massive” – A quick, fun video from The New Yorker‘s grammar guru.

An Unparalleled Influence: The Man Who Invented Fiction – The role of Cervantes and Don Quixote in bringing about the modern novel.

Simon & Schuster Creates Imprint for Muslim-Themed Children’s Books – This week’s announcement of Salaam Reads, a new imprint to be headed up by Executive Editor Zareen Jaffery.

Ancient History Resources – A collection of links to some wonderful research material.

The Architecture of Fantasy: How Authors Use Real Places to Build Imaginary Ones – Some helpful tips for world building.

Notes on Record-Keeping – A look at journaling as a means of keeping track of all the bits and pieces of your life and memories.

Why I Became a Travel Writer – On delving into a career that calls to you, despite the risks.

Happy Book Day!

Nephele Tempest

Archagels_Legion_fcovA great big congratulations to Nalini Singh, whose latest installment in her Guild Hunter series, ARCHANGEL’S LEGION, is available today. This is a sexy, tense, exciting read that finds Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and Archangel Raphael pitted against an unknown enemy that has seemingly struck the city like a plague.

Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.

Vampires are dying impossibly of disease.

Elena and Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people, leaving New York a ruin and Raphael’s Tower under siege by enemy archangels.

Yet even as they fight desperately to save the city, an even darker force is stirring, its chill eyes trained on New York… and on Raphael. Rivers of crimson and nightmares given flesh, the world will never be the same…

Check out this edge-of-the-seat novel today!

 

Friday Links: Holiday Weekend Edition

Nephele Tempest

Happy Friday! Here in the U.S., we’re smack in the middle a lovely long Independence Day weekend, so this week’s links almost have a theme. It wasn’t exactly intentional, but they do feel more vacation-ish than usual to me. I’ll let you judge for yourself. Have a lovely weekend, and happy writing!

Flavorwire’s Ultimate Literary Calendar: A Bookish Event for Every Day of the Year – A fun smattering.

Darcy and Elizabeth Go to Summer Camp – Wish I had known about this ahead of time.

Eight Books from the Last Decade that Made Me Excited about SF – A short round-up from author Jo Walton.

Eight Books from the Last Decade that Made Me Excited about Fantasy – And the flip side of Jo Walton’s round-up.

A Book Critic’s Night on the Town – Charming story of how critic Ron Charles ended up visiting a book club.