QUESTION: I'm actually working on the notes for my nonfiction book on horror and sci fi films.

If I were to post early versions of the various sections online and ask for input, would any of you be interested in taking a look at such a thing? It's meant to be a book for the layman, so special expertise not requires. Just interest.

#HorrorMovies #Writing #SciFimovies #NonfictionBook

Free US Kindle giveaway of Darren Naish's ( @TetZoo) #cryptozoology book Hunting Monsters from @kithrup here:

https://mastodon.cloud/@kithrup/110256116273526553

#NonFictionBook #Science #paleontogy

Next up, The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicholson. I dipped into a couple of chapters from this a while back, but revisiting it and reading more deeply has helped with a project I'm working on right now. Beautiful writing capturing the magic appeal of seabirds #amreading #nature #seabirds #nonfictionbook

After it was languishing on my to be read list for ages, I started Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall on Christmas eve last year, but it's taken me a while to find the time to complete with everything else I've been working on in January. Really interesting subject with plenty to think about, and prompted lots of dives into Wikipedia on the side #amreading #geography #politics #nonfictionbook

I'm having what you might call a post-book slump. After months of intense work, the manuscript for my first book is delivered and suddenly I feel adrift and listless.

I can't be alone in feeling like this, right? Yet everything I've found online seems to be from the readers' POV.

Writers, tell me this feeling is not unusual. Share your stories of post-book blues.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #NonFictionBook #PostBookBlues #CreativeLife #WritingLife

Next book off my stack… Code Name: Lise, by Larry Loftis.

I’m already four chapters in and really enjoying the quick paced writing style.

#books #book #bookstodon #nonfiction #nonfictionbook

Science in Low Places: A Review of A People’s History of Science
I love to seek out science history books that tell the stories of unsung heroes. Anything that doesn't begin and end with Newton, that doesn't praise Darw
https://sheseeksnonfiction.blog/2023/01/16/science-in-low-places-a-review-of-a-peoples-history-of-science/
#BookReviews #Books #ScienceHistory #Atheism #atheist #bookreview #Books #history #nonfiction #nonfictionbook #science #sciencehistory #socialism #socialistscience

God, who knew acknowledgements pages were so hard to write!?

#AmWriting #NonFictionBook #GinATastingCourse

Just delivered a whole buncha book to my editors.

Totally normal to get The Fear at this point and imagine you've picked terrible nonsense gins to include, right? Right??

Comes out in September with DK Books, title is GIN: A TASTING COURSE.

Find out then if my fear is misplaced or totally justified, I guess. :)

#GinATastingCourse #Gin #Spirits #Cocktails #NonFictionBook #AmWriting

Good tasting day today, handed out a few 10/10 perfect scores. Only a couple of duds. Lists for all but two flavour groups starting to look fairly settled and complete.

Can't say yet which ones got top marks - got to keep something back for the book! - but I can say one was French, one was South African and two were English.

#GinATastingCourse #NonFictionBook #Gin #GinTasting #AmWriting

Getting a bit poetical in my tasting notes today. If gin were a town... Juniper driving the citrus party bus... I wonder what's next.

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A little late getting to this title (publshed 2010) but now that I’m reading it… Wow!!! I think that every human should know this woman’s name and know this story. A very powerful read about science, socialjustice and privacy/consent. #nonfictionbook #science #reading #2023readingchallenge

Nerding out about the various flavour compounds present in gin (especially the monoterpenoids), and how they can uncover links between its various botanicals.

Gone about 400 words over and need to stop now, but I feel like there's lots more to say here.

#Gin #GinATastingCourse #AmWriting #NonFictionBook #OrganicChemistry #Alcohol #Flavour

The poll to select the next read for the #WhiteHorseBookgroup has closed. The group will read Invisible Women by Caroline Oriado Perez starting 15th January.

Thanks to all who voted.

Why not read along with us! I will hopefully be posting additional material as we read along.

If you have a suggestion for a future #NonFictionBook toot me!

#WHBookgroup #InvisibleWomen #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #NonFictionBooks #NonFictionBookClub #NonFictionBookgroup

God I love it when I get to write up a 10/10 super delicious gin. Even more so when I know the people who make it are lovely folks who deserve success. Just hoping I managed not to gush *too* much.

#Hyperbole #Gin #AmTasting #AmWriting #NonFictionBook #GinATastingCourse

Over 100 gins tasted now and luckily very few rejects so far.

Just tasted a superb one from Japan. Have received 10 Japanese gins so consider for my book. The tally so far stands at 6 yes, 1 maybe and 3 no.

(This is all provisional, mind you, until I've tasted through all the other possible contenders.)

#GinATastingCourse #Gin #NonFictionBook #AmWriting

Since we are all now aware of algorithmic manipulation in social media, I thought it was time to read Jaron Lanier's "Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts".
Love that he calls #socialmedia like Facebook and Twitter "Bummer platforms".

#Books #nonfictionbook #nonfiction #amreading #tech #bookstodon #books

@0x58 try one of Annie Duke’s books on decision making “Thinking in Bets” or “How to Decide” (I haven’t read “Quit” yet but it is high on my list) #nonfiction #nonfictionbook #nonfictionbooks

I'm very lucky to have a job where I get to sit around tasting gin all day* and call it work.

Most of the time they're pretty good, too. Sometimes I get disappointing gins or lacklustre gins, but very rarely do I get anything outright unpleasant.

The one just now though... fuck me that was vile.

* Using a spittoon, before you make drunk jokes.

#OccupationalHazard #DrinksWriting #Gin #AmWriting #NonFictionBook #GinATastingCourse

Short thread on using Obsidian for managing my notes while writing a non-fiction book on gin.

It's satisfying to see how my notes are growing. They've already proved useful for teasing out connections such as gins that share unusual botanicals, or quickly seeing which gins vapour infuse which botanicals.

#Gin #GinATastingCourse #NonFictionBook #AmWriting #ObsidianMD #PKM