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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
15 classic SFF novels that publishers rejected.
Statistically, I'm sure publishing is more rejection than acceptance, but I wonder how it feels to let something as classic as Fahrenheit 451 through your fingers, or something that becomes as massive as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
"His mane of dark, tousled hair, chiseled cheekbones, and thick eyebrows were stunning, but some inward pain twisted his eyes and mouth away from beauty and toward something more difficult and profound."
For those interested in poetry, here is the Poetry 180 project, via Writer on the Side.
Sweet Valley High grownup sequel cover released.
Oh god, I kind of want to read that.
They're estranged! The horror!
I feel so out of the loopy that I never read Sweet Valley books. I did audition to write one once, though.
I never read the Sweet Valley books. I think I'm too old or they were too trendy.
You're not much older than me, Laga? I was probably a bit older than the target audience (which I think was younger than the twins) when I started them, and I seem to recall we're about the same age.
Not that I bought them or shit. Let's be clear. It was other people's copies I was reading.
I'm 36, and my best friend read a ton of them in 7th-8th grade, but I refused.