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JohnForrester

  1. On Chapter 22 of Shadow Mage, third book in the Blacklight Chronicles series. Dragged into the Netherworld...
  2. Like to win a $20 gift certificate? Post your review of Fire Mage on Amazon.com and enter the contest at... fb.me/1IrEc8j8u
  3. "Unicorn Being a Jerk." I just love this book. This one is: "Feeding Bacon to Pigs" What's your favorite? fb.me/TqFN9Iqr
  4. “Asking a writer how he feels about editors is like asking a lamp-post how he feels about dogs.” ― E.L. Doctorow
  5. "Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga." -- David Ogilvy
  6. "use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular." David Ogilvy
  7. "I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should" Pt.1
  8. "Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals." -- David Ogilvy
  9. ...the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.” - Don Roff
  10. “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings” ― Stephen King
  11. When thirteen dwarves come and visit your house, who are you? fb.me/1W7cbIbm6
  12. @TheGonzoLecture absolutely :)
  13. Dune jumping at the beach is so awesome! (Back from Pescadero Beach in California). What's your biggest dune jump? fb.me/1MRLVxz5D
  14. From Fire Mage, Talis casting magic for the first time against an invasion of Jiserian sorcerers. amzn.to/y2Z6vM twitter.com/JohnForrester/…
  15. @AdrianMrNguyen sweet! have to watch the movie now :D
  16. @AdrianMrNguyen yeah, it's awesome! definitely much more realistic. I heard there is a movie version also of Battle Royale?
  17. Ephemeral Portraits Cut from Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo Park thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/epheme… via @itscolossal
  18. @Melinda_Chapman yes, indeed, i loved that quote as well...
  19. Really great article! Think different and ask questions. Dangerous things you're taught in school: 1. The people... fb.me/1IUFMGTAy