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Search Kindle on Amazon.com: Find Books by Author, Title, Subject, Publisher, Price & More. Free Kindle Classics and a few That are not Free. eBooks and ebook reader for your PC, PDA and Smartphone: Palm, Windows mobile, Symbian, Blackberry, or PocketPC. Genres. Accessible book. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Free Kindle Books: A Guide. 27: Word Clouds.

We all have words we love too much. Maybe for you it’s something fancy, like “effulgent” or “apodictic,” or something sillier, like “smellypants.” And because we love these words, we will use them too often, until our readers begin to snicker quietly at us. But those big, obvious words are easy to spot. We’ll whack them in the second draft. It’s the little overused words that kill us, that quietly undermine our text without us ever noticing. My big overused word was once “just,” as an adverb. But how could I be sure that there weren’t other overused words mucking up my manuscript? Then I discovered the word cloud. “Word clouds” are graphic representation of the words in a text, scaled by how many times each word occurs. This is what the word cloud for my latest novel, Leviathan, looked like after my first draft: generated by the excellent Wordle.net software As you can see, my two main character names, Alek and Deryn, are the biggest words by far.

See how it works? That’s it for today. A Sneak Peek into The Steampunk Bible: Jeff VanderMeer Interviews Co-Author S.J. Chambers. A Sneak Peek into The Steampunk Bible: Jeff VanderMeer Interviews Co-Author S.J. Chambers After almost a year of researching and writing, this past month S.J. Chambers and I wrapped up our work on The Steampunk Bible, a coffee-table guide to the genre, forthcoming from Abrams Image in May 2011. As we both look back at the process, we remain amazed at how much the book changed and evolved during that time. We began with the goal of providing a definitive overview of the genre in all of its manifestations, while also telling compelling stories about some of its movers and shakers.

By September, when we held the first pass in our hands, we were happy to find that true synergy had occurred, and that readers would see the connections and interplay between Steampunk as fiction, fashion, art, making, music, and in other creative disciplines. This project was a first for me: my first coffee-table book after five novels, four story collections, and over a dozen anthologies. S.J. S.J. S.J. S.J.