Lemony Snicket “We’re not heroes, Vi,” said Klaus, looking out of the grimy window in Olaf’s basement, “We just try and try and fight and fight – and the grownups don’t even believe us!” Violet bit her lip. “Grownups are very often wrong.” “You can say that again.” Harry Potter Ron pocketed his wand, sighing. […]
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Introduction Well, it has been a long road to my traditional publishing dreams; a road filled with so many twists and turns that I don’t even know where to look anymore. Experiences As I mentioned previously, I began Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow in 2007, and since then, it has gone through (I’m not […]
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Today, I am going to talk about the main antagonist in my upper middle grade, ‘Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow’ I won’t tell you much, because, spoilers, but I will allow you a quick glimpse…… At just 15, Kazamir Kirrolivitch has a merciless drive for vengeance. He is ruthless. He is powerful, and he […]
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Harry Potter “What shall we throw, George?” “I don’t know, Fred, what do you think we should throw?” “How about nothing?” said Ginny, “We can just de-gnome the garden like always.” “That’s boring!” chorused Fred and George, their eyes falling on a basket of eggs… “I bought a new one, ‘arry!” Hagrid said, with a […]
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By. R.E. Brooker Warning: Contains mild spoilers from the following book series – Lord of The Flies, Othello, Gormenghast, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society series, Darren Shan series, Harry Potter, and the Itch series Introduction Villlains. Don’t you just love them? From the snarling school bully, to the machievolan […]
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Life on Mars “They’ve made a bastard enemy out of me, Tyler,” growled The Guv, pulling on his thick, leather gloves, “NICK EM!” Sam clamped the handcuffs on the two men. “Cell number three might be clean,” he said, “I can’t say for sure…..” The Guv howled with laughter. Ray is not my enemy, Chris!” […]
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Heya guys Welcome to another R.E. Brooker blog entry. Okay, so there are a lot of writing movies for us to enjoy, but unfortunately many are lost in the generic whirlpool, those films with more universally relatable plots, (although, being a writer myself, I will never understand why not everyone in the world doesn’t want […]
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by R.E. Brooker Heya guys, many of you on Twitter wanted me to share a few writing tips in my blog, so I’ve compiled the top ten tips that I have picked up through the years ☺️ I hope you find them useful. 1Inspiration can be found everywhere…. and often in the most unlikely of […]
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Heya guys, I just wanted to update you on what happened yesterday, and – in all honesty – I am beginning to see it as a really exciting, positive thing! 🙂 You ready? Pfft… Of course you are…. From now on, I am going to be sending out my book to literary agents by myself. […]
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