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Join me in doing the in 2025 and fill 52 prompts with the books you read! I’ve discovered such great this way (and I like checking off boxes). It’s helped expand my horizons when it comes to !
My favorite 2025 prompts: “pun in the title” & “set in a country with an active volcano”, but there are other great ones.
Challenges like this have helped me get back into my reading habit. No need to read 52 books though! 😌
https://www.the52book.club/2025-reading-challenge/

in 1847.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey are published in a three-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively, in London by T. C. Newby. Wuthering Heights will be Emily's only published novel, as she dies a year later, aged 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights

Wuthering Heights at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/768

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Grey

Agnes Grey at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/767

Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University
First edition title page of Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Volumes 1 and 2 of this edition are Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.

Ullapool in Wester Ross has a background role in the story as it develops. The central character visits as major works on the inner harbour and Shore Street near completion. These are shown in this photograph which was taken at the time he was here.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-thr/index.html

The image shows a harbour in the foreground and on the right with a series of pontoons connected by a walkway and accessed by a ramp. Above and to the left is a quayside with red and white barriers visible and beyond that is a street with parked cars and mainly white two-storey buildings on its far side. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top right corner.

replied to Wendy Palmer's status

Content warning Queer Romance Club Dec pick: Murder Most Actual SPOILERIFFIC

Happy Friday! 🥳

I've just published my latest blog post, where I not only offer updates on where my writing projects stand, but ALSO list several self-published books/short stories I've enjoyed this year.

🎁 It's my holiday wish that more self-published authors get some recognition this holiday season. If you're shopping for a reader this holiday season, help me make that happen! 🎁

https://sarahjhoodlet.com/blog/support-self-published-authors-this-holiday-season/

'Most indie stores will special order [small press books] for you, a service you should absolutely use if you feel so inclined. You can absolutely request your library carry a small press book. Both of these things are really good for the books, all told.

'First you have to know they exist.'

Molly Templeton focuses on the challenge of small press for SFF, but it's the same in any genre:

https://reactormag.com/small-press-sff-might-sometimes-be-harder-to-find-but-its-more-than-worth-the-effort/

@bookstodon

In December 1832 (or January 1833).

Richard Bentley, having purchased the remaining copyrights to all of Jane Austen's novels from her sister Cassandra, begins to return them to print (for the first time since 1820) in five illustrated volumes as part of his Standard Novels series. In October 1833, Bentley released the first collected edition of her works. Since then, Austen's novels have been continuously in print.

Books by Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

One of the first two published illustrations of Pride and Prejudice, from the Richard Bentley edition. Caption reads: "She then told him [Mr Bennett] what Mr Darcy had voluntarily done for Lydia. He heard her with astonishment."