Books
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‘Am I Screwing Over the Book Industry By Releasing My Work for Free?’ and Other Existential Questions
Over the weekend Maggie Stiefvater wrote about the implications of book piracy and, when the Internet told her off, told a story about dealing with book piracy. You can read them both at your leisure (the story is worth five minutes of your time for its sneaky genius alone). Today I want to talk about… Continue reading
‘The Raven Cycle’, book piracy, crowdfunding art, Everyday Acts of Murder, Francesca’s Words, free art, free copy of the Raven Cycle, free copy of the Raven King, free writing, Indifferent Ignorance, Maggie Stiefvater, Patreon, pirated copy of The Dream Thieves, second hand books, should writing be free, using libraries -
Broody BFF Challenge: YA & Music (ft. Maggie Stiefvater, Troye Sivan and… fan fiction)
Okay, so you might have noticed I’m a Maggie Stiefvater fan. I reviewed The Raven Boys way back, I met Maggie at YALC last summer and offered her my dad’s Mustang, I irritated my brother into reading The Raven Cycle and he took The Dream Thieves to Asia with us and now it looks like… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… Ostrich Boys, by Keith Gray
I could have sworn that I reviewed this way back in the day before I called it Read, If You Like, but I can’t find it so clearly it didn’t get past the idea stage. I’ve had this book lying around for ages, and although it took me a while to get to it, it… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
If any of you are familiar with Sophia Amoruso, the ‘#Girlboss’ movement/Insta hashtag and/or Nasty Gal, you are probably aware that Nasty Gal is a clothing brand, originally on eBay, that enjoyed one of those meteoric rises to fame that puts its founder on the Forbes front cover and wields legions of loyal fans. Said… Continue reading
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