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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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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Quick note: I wrote this a very long time ago, and just copied it from Facebook now, but I thought that my Harry Potter essays deserved to be seen on my blog, just because of the time I spent on them! and yes, that is my replica Hufflepuff cup <:) I absolutely love Harry Potter, […]
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Over the past week, I’ve seen a lot of people saying that they don’t know what genre or market their book fits into, so I thought I would share with you what I have learnt over the years – and hope this helps you work out where your writing belongs! 🙂 I might be wrong […]
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As promised, here is the #1linewed evening tweets (part two!) I didn’t mention this before, but the theme for this Wednesday was ‘circular, or round….’ Here we go Life on Mars Ray slammed his pint onto the bar. “Why are we waiting for Tyler?”, he mocked. “We might as well just tell him to not […]
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