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📚 Shiv Singh and Stephanie Diamond (2020) Social Media Marketing

After reading one chapter of this book, I feel like I need to sit down and rethink everything about nearly all my social media habits. If you have never read a social media marketing book, and you, as I did right up to an hour ago, think you’ve “been on social media for years” you “know how it works,” but you’ve got a project that you want to learn to increase “reach” for—definitely consider picking up a book for pointers.

This book is a good starting place into the world of nonprofits and grant writing. There is a short pop quiz and suggested essay questions at the end of each chapter in this book, and I enjoy the prompts for reflection this provides.

Ellen Karsh & Arlen Sue Fox (2019) The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need p. 31

Essay Questions

“Take 15 to 30 minutes to mull over the following questions. You may want to write out a paragraph or two and save the brief essay to develop in later lessons.

1. Who are you? Briefly describe your organization and place it in the range of organizations described in this lesson.

2. What single project or activity do you think you or your organization may need money for?”

Libraries Publish: How to Start a Magazine, Small Press, Blog, and More (2021) by Stephanie Katz

I’m not a library, but this book is about starting and running a lit mag and/or small press and/or related blog, and it’s in my to-read for the week ahead.

Making time to read from Whisperwood this weekend, a debut folk horror/fantasy novel recently released (July 11th) by Alex Woodroe

I’m pretty excited about it, tbh. Feels like a pleasure to read #BookWyrm #Bookstodon

Photo description: Book cover. Shadows abound, and the writer’s name is written in red giving vitality, suggesting the possibility of violence, whispering of survival, passion, and the will to live. A partially uprooted mature tree covered in fungi appears animate and ready to reach while showcasing the simultaneous processes of growth and decay.

The Art of Chart Interpretation: A Step-by-Step Method for Analyzing, Synthesizing, and Understanding Birth Charts (2009) Tracy Marks

This book was recommended to me today. Thoughts? #Astrology

The language used to describe the behaviors of birds, as is often the case in nature writing, frequently echoes anti-immigration sentiments. Behaviors described negatively as invasive and choking out the native species. Behaviors equated with colonialism. It intrigues me, and when I come across it, it leaps out at me with surprising alarm. I cannot help but wonder how the future will judge this.

Corvus and Crater: Poems by Erin Hollowell Release date: 20 July 2023

I’ve preordered.

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Postcolonial Love Poem, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read “The First Water Is the Body” in full here: emergencemagazine.org/poem/the-first-water-is-the-body/

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The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic (2020) by S. Elizabeth

This one has been in my to-read for an embarrassingly long time, but brought forward tonight. I saw concept art for a Hilma af Klint tarot deck, and the sight reminded me of this book. I’m hoping it will be a good companion read for Visual Alchemy: A Witch's Guide to Sigils, Art & Magic (2022) by Laura Tempest Zakroff.

I’ve done a lot of editing tonight and my brain has been in full technical mode, so I’m especially looking forward to the shift into color, line, and shape.

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The Library at Night (2005) by Alberto Manguel

Ada Wildflower quoted from this today, bookwyrm.social/user/wildflower/quotation/2011272#anchor-2011272, and I’m intrigued.

One of my WIP’s features a library setting, and this could be important background reading for adding insight and texture to the work.

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Can you imagine how clumsy trying to impose order on a large collection of books is?

Earlier in the chapter Manguel points out that the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system was a big fan of 'Anglo-Saxonism.'

This meant that although the system was meant to organize a universe of books, it enshrined his narrow world views.