#booktalk

📖 At just 16 years old, Simone O. Elias wrote PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN. Her book explores femininity, culture, history, mental health, and the pressures shaping a generation. Elias chose to publish it as an #openaccess book, making it FREE through the Internet Archive! 🆓 Read & download: https://archive.org/details/porcelain-rage/PorcelainRage_Ack/ And Learn more about Elias, her book, and the Aug 4 #booktalk with livestream 📡 & in-person 🎟️ options at our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/ #Bookstodon

Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller? Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal! Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page. Here’s the question: Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents. https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/19/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-43/ #BookTalk #CRAFT #FlogaPro