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Pearl Development Editing 📚🖊 | #StoryGrid Certified Editor
I help #indiewriters shape and share their stories with readers who'll love them.
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“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge encounters the ghost of Jacob Marley in Dickens's novella, A Christmas Carol – illustration by John Leech (1843)
December 23, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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"I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Look upon me!"

Scrooge reverently did so.

It was clothed in one simple green robe...bordered with white fur...on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath.
"The Second of The Three Spirits" or "Scrooge's third Visitor" John Leech 1843 Steel engraving, hand-coloured Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/carol/5.html
December 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Marley's Ghost by Arthur Rackham. 1915. Photographic reproduction of pen-and-ink drawing. Illustration for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, page 13. From: https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/rackham/2.html Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
December 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Happy holidog! Merry dogmas! Merry *every*thing and *any*thing that you celebrate! We're counting down the days to the winter solstice here at Pearl Editing. (Don't tell Louise that she's getting a Santa Lambie.)
#dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #holidog
Little black scruffy dog next to a decorated tree and gifts with the words Happy Holidays from Pearl Development Editing and Writer Coaching!
December 17, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Tom Spanbauer novel cover "In the City of Shy Hunters" showing a map of NYC and a classical Roman or Greek war scene
December 13, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, shows an expressionistic painting of a nude blond woman riding on the back of a Sandhill crane.
December 11, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, showing a negative "contact sheet" of black and white images of a bowl of pears.
December 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway
December 9, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Lois Ann Yamanaka novel Blu's Hanging showing a painting of an upside down flower bouquet over an ocean in which each wave has a single eye.
December 7, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved. A young Black woman dressed in a high lace collared dress and wearing a straw "boater" hat with a pink ribbon and pink rose appears to fade away in a ghostly manner.
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of the novel Orlando by Virginia Woolf. A line drawing of an Elizabethan-dressed man and an Edwardian-dressed woman, who look as if they could be fraternal twins, standing on either side of a clock tower similar to Big Ben in London.
December 5, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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One good thing about being sick these past few days: Powering through My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. Wow, wow, wow! A tour de force horror story. Anyone who was a teenager (especially if you were a girl) in the 80s will feel Hendrix nailed the experience. Recommend!
#booksky #bookrec
The cover of My Best Friend's Exorcism, looking like a VHS horror movie tape from the 80s, split screen with author Grady Hendrix wearing a white suit and holding a skull.
December 4, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of EL Doctorow's novel Ragtime - cream background with Ragtime in large Jazz Age text
December 4, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Fannie Flagg's novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. A cafe front and center with the tail end of a railroad boxcar in the lower frame.
November 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Searching for a Black Friday deal for the writer in your life? Gift a beta read, perfect for writers preparing to submit to agents, publishers, or contests, or who self publish. Get 50% off the regular price for beta reads today through Dec 24, 2024.
#blackfriday
#giftsforwriters
#beta-read
Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band (Wikipedia)
November 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, showing a ghostly sepia toned landscape with Stone Henge monument
November 29, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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#Thanksgiving = kind of complicated for many reasons. But I'm simply thankful for Louise, for my family, and my friends, and for the community I'm just beginning to connect with on the #goodplace. Hope you are surrounded by reasons to be thankful today and every day.
#dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky
Little black dachsund and poodle mix dog, looking sleepy and content, lying on a fleece blanket
November 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The Once and Future King, preceding The Book of Merlyn is more well-known but this book *shaped* me.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Book of Merlyn by TH White, charcoal drawing of a bearded, long-haired wizard in glasses, wearing a conical hat with an owl on his shoulder
November 28, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Wherever you're going, however you're getting there, have a happy Thanksgiving with friends, family, and/or friends who are family. May the catastrophes, disasters, and debacles be few and the food plentiful and delicious!
#friendsgiving #thanksgiving #planes-trains-and-automobiles
Movie poster for the John Hughes film, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, showing Steve Martin reluctantly being side-hugged by John Candy on a bus station bench.
November 27, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Alice Walker novel The Color Purple showing a charcoal drawing of a small house surrounded by an empty field
November 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Make Black Friday Book Friday. "Gift" a beta read to a writer before they submit to agents, publishers, contests, or self publish. I help writers meet & transcend genre, audience, and reader expectations for one-of-a-kind must-read stories.
#blackfriday #giftsforwriters #beta-read
A typical American version of Jolly Old Saint Nick from the Wikipedia page on Santa Claus
November 26, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of George Orwell's novel, 1984, showing a man looking up at a chaotic cityscape
November 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Brave New World cover abstract city scape
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Is it just me or are the dogs cuter in the #goodplace? #dogsofbsky #dog #doxiemix
Scruffy black dachshund mix dog in a fleece blanket
November 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM