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Lucy Werner's avatar

Look forward to dancing with your audience on Tuesday 📚📣💵

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Penny Harrison's avatar

Ahh thank you so much for including me and my writing in this David. Chuffed to bits. Great to see all the other recommendations too - I’ll be having a read on Sunday morning with my cuppa. You’ve reminded me that I need to be doing more reading. I am a slow reader - which is tricky when you’re doing a creative writing MA and definitely should be hoovering up more books. And of course I know, that if I want to improve as a writer I must read, read, read. But you know, I also am writing, plus working, plus mum-ing! And sleeping here and there. (Excuses, excuses). Thank you again, for including me!

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Marple's avatar

At least one…but three chapters into the second novel of my book series! :-)

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Marple's avatar

A few more a few days later!

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Leanna Julius's avatar

Now I have the perfect list of reads for this Saturday afternoon!

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Marple's avatar

👍🏻

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L∆UR∆ Simone's avatar

I’ve read 13 books this year but published hardly any writing, so I think you win 😉 Happy Saturday 📝 ☕️

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David McIlroy's avatar

13! That's great Laura. 😊

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Robyn Everingham's avatar

Lost count of my books so far. I tracked books read for a few years but I am a tracking nerd and something had to go so I had to let go of counting books and just enjoying them. However, reading excellent Substacks takes a lot of my time as well now. Now get back to writing Robyn!

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Hudson Riley's avatar

8 so far. I set myself the goal of 50 for the year, but I think I was a little too hopeful!

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Jothi PM's avatar

Thanks for the great post compilation!

The number of books I have read so far is just 2 🫣

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Alex Mathers's avatar

Thanks for the share brother!

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David McIlroy's avatar

💪

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Jan Watson's avatar

I’m a terrible reader! Prolific yet hardly ever finish anything 😳 having said that I am proud to say I managed to finish Will Smith’s book last week 🙌 and devoured one of Austin Kleon’s books in a week.

The problem for me is that I mainly read fiction with exercises to work through before moving on to the next chapter. Extreme excuses I know 😁

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Kristina God's avatar

I think I read about 25 books. Audible and Kindle make it possible for me:)

Thanks for the mention of my video and the interview with Maya.

I'm working on my guest post ^^ and the video for it.

Tonight is our LIVE session with Maya.

I was thinking about interviewing you on Notes for YouTube. Would you be down for this? I would also add 2-3 other writers and share their best practices.

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