@bookfox

I help authors write better books through Bookfox, my YouTube Channel. Author of “The Linchpin Writer” and “I Will Shout Your Name”

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Joined May 2009
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Youtube is an amazing resource for #writing tips and advice, especially if you don’t have the £ to pay for official courses. Big respect for my most-frequented channels; @abbieemmonsx @bookfox @AlyssaMatesic and @cfraiseauthor Thank you for your content, guys! 🙏💛
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. @StoryblocksCo I reached out to your customer service complaining that you've been adding tons of AI videos to your stock videos. In response, you cancelled my account. Is this how you treat customers who dare to bring up that you're using AI videos instead of real videos?
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Just dropped in a year-end writing collab with 13 incredible creators on the @Bookfox channel 🎥✍️ We shared our favorite writing advice of 2025. Lots of great tips packed into this one! youtube.com/watch?v=h3V4GzJE… #amwriting
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Great list!
Aaron Gwyn
@AmericanGwyn18 Aug 2025
My ten favorite historical novels.
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I have gotten a lot from the @bookfox YouTube channel and highly recommend it to the #WritingCommunity. End of this PSA.
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Authors: what youtube channels do you watch for writing advice? Three I love 1. Brandon Sanderson (his lectures are amazing) 2. Alyssa matesic (she also offers query bundle services, which I recommend) @AlyssaMatesic 3. Bookfox (Regular short vids) @bookfox Who else?
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Really? I’d pay nothing. Ever. Magazine submissions aren't supposed to be Disney World. I pay as a reader to read and support the things I love, not as an author, least of all to acquire "benefits".
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How in the world does Claire Keegan get away with publishing short stories as $20 hardback novels? Don’t get me wrong, I love Foster and Small Things like These, but they are not … books?
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Toni Morrison: 40 Mark Twain: 41 Marcel Proust: 43 Henry Miller: 44 JRR Tolkien: 45 Raymond Chandler: 51 Richard Adams: 52 Annie Proulx: 57 Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65 Frank McCourt: 66 Harriett Doerr: 74 Harry Bernstein: 96 No, you’re not too old to publish your first book.
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Susan Sontag just casually ruining my life in her foreword to Pedro Paramo
The point of a writer’s life is to produce a great book—that is, a book which will last

ALT The point of a writer’s life is to produce a great book—that is, a book which will last

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Even though I fly through this airport regularly, in my brain DFW will always stand for David Foster Wallace.
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all jokes aside this sense of line comes from marquez right? is there an earlier writer who established it? im thinking the openings of 100 years and cholera.
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Cormac News: Andrew Kevin Walker--who wrote the screenplay for Se7en and The Killer--has been tapped to finish Cormac McCarthy's script for John Hillcoat's upcoming adaptation of Blood Meridian.
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Anyone who teaches and gives feedback to creative writing--fiction, autofiction, and nonfiction--what words do you use frequently when giving that feedback? For example, "Here might be a missed opportunity for X."
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But on some level … this is kind of awesome.
Chiyeung 刘志扬 🇵🇸@chiyeung10 Apr 2024
I aspire to be this level of petty 🤣
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Happy Eclipse Day! I collected 7 examples of authors writing about full solar eclipses, from Annie Dillard to Stephen King. thejohnfox.com/2024/01/7-sol…

7 Solar Eclipses in Literature - Bookfox

A full solar eclipse will be visible in Mexico, the United States, and Canada on April 8, 2024, and I’m thrilled about it. The last one was in 2017, and I took my five-year-old twins and drove all...

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And doing great work for all 25 years! Thank you!
Michael Orthofer@MAOrthofer5 Apr 2024
The Complete Review turns 25 today. The first reviews were posted 5 April 1999, and here I am, 5222 reviews later ..... Ancient, in internet time and terms — older than Wikipedia ! Facebook ! etc. etc. — and, some days, feeling it.
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Seems like a good opportunity to recommend John Williams’s masterpiece, STONER.
Kat Rosenfield
@katrosenfield4 Apr 2024
I finally finished Blood Meridian. Can someone now please recommend a good book where absolutely nothing bad happens to a dog or a horse or a baby
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I have students in my intermediate and advanced fiction writing classes create a Character Dossier using this template. Thought it might be helpful to some of my fiction writing followers.
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I think one of the best ways to improve the feedback you give on writing is to not initially approach a piece with the idea that it will need to change. Reading a piece with the idea that it must be altered is a ruinous way to read. Enjoy it!
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