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Title: Book of a Thousand Days Author: Shannon Hale Length: ~220 pages Genre: YA fiction Plot Basics: Dashti becomes a lady's maid...

Title: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Diaz Length: 459 pages (large-type version) Genre: literary fiction Plot Ba...

Word Nerd is finally finally done drafting the new chapter for her novel. The new Chapter Nine. This new chapter took far, far, far too lon...

Title: The Winter Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Length: ~700 pages Genre: historical fiction Plot Basics: India Selwyn Jones seems to ...

Title: The Host Author: Stephenie Meyer Length: 619 pages Genre: sci- fi Plot Basics: Sometime in the future, humans on earth become th...

Title: Chuck Dugan is AWOL Author: Eric Chase Anderson Length: 223 pages Genre: adventure fiction Plot Basics: Midshipman Chuck Dugan ...

Title: Kushiel's Justice Author: Jacqueline Carey Length: ~700 pages Genre: fantasy Plot Basics: Back from university, Imriel no ...

Word Nerd forgot she hadn't done the April tally of things read yet. Here it is: 7 books, 2614 pages avg. 87 pages/day April was a bit s...

Indianapolis blog readers! Word Nerd and the Harrison Center for the Arts are setting up a new writers group. Writers in any genre are encou...

The new chapter Word Nerd's trying to add to her WIP is not going well. It feels forced, disjointed and anachronistic. Sigh.

The plan for May had been to read only books that Word Nerd owned or had been lent to her. So much for that plan. Word Nerd's got a cop...

Word Nerd spent some time working on the WIP this weekend and hit the first place where she discovered she really needs to add some brand n...

Title: Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Length: 351 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: Thirteen year-old Briony Tallis sees a mom...

Title: The Learners Author: Chip Kidd Length: ~2250 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: A few years have passed since the end of...

Word Nerd has been having trouble remember when Wednesdays are, so instead of waiting for another one to roll around, she's going to pos...

Word Nerd went through her WIP late last week to devise a plan for how to work through revisions. Tackling the 381-page manuscript seems to...

Title: The Gun Seller Author: Hugh Laurie Length: 339 pages Genre: comedy/thriller Plot Basics: Thomas Lang is a gun-for-hire. His late...

Title: Too Pretty to Die Author: Susan McBride Length: ~350 pages Genre: chick-lit/mystery Plot Basics: Dallas debutante drop-out Andy ...

Word Nerd's relinquishing her post today to welcome guest blogger, Belinda Kroll, also known in the blogosphere as Worderella, the mind ...

Just in case you wondered, the Hugh Laurie who wrote "The Gunseller" is the same Hugh Laurie who plays Dr. Gregory House on "...