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Please find our latest news below.
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Don't forget; on our website you are able to use translate function on top of the website, for example to read our blogs.
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Writing a first draft. In my first blog, I talked a little about writing the first draft, though it is fair to say I skipped over a few steps. Writing a first draft is way more complicated than what I previously wrote down. So, to give a little more insight in my upcoming book, Gravity Goat, I will take you …
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I made the necessary adjustments to the concept, which were necessary because of the changed main character (from father Hendrik to daughter Aaltje). In addition, I set out the stakes by identifying the plot points, midpoint and pinches. I now have a schematic layout of the chapters that are to come, based on these points. I supplement this schema with …
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To start, Donkey Books would like to wish everyone a happy new year! A new year means new sneak peeks, events, books, and much more! Donkey Books has been working hard behind the scenes, and we have loads of exciting things coming this year! In fact, we have something to share with you right now! At the start of this year, a …
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Getting an idea. I thought it was best to start my blogs where every book starts. Getting an idea. An idea that grows a little out of hand. Needing more and more words to be told. A world that comes to life, characters that do things you don't always see coming. Before you know it, a first draft is finished, …
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I have done enough research on my main character to be able to determine the storyline of the fictional part. I have an overview of blood relatives, I currently have more than forty documents in which Hendrik and/or his wife are mentioned and I have a chronological list of events.I have decided to delve deeper into the theory of writing …
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Sneak Preview
Gravity Goat
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An index has been made, by name and place, of the fact section in Uitgevlogen Ziel. Fiction & facts from the life of Hendrik Baalman (1709-1757). Hendrik Baalman, born in Quakenbrück, settled around 1733 just outside the Oosterpoort of Hoorn. The index can be of added value to historians and genealogists. This can be downloaded for free.
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"My shaking hands took the handkerchief out of the gourd. The blood that had soaked it had hardened over time."
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'Poveglia's Plague Doctor'
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To this day, there is still no certainty about whose blood was on the handkerchief of French revolutionary Maximilien Bourdaloue.
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Save the date...
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The writers of Donkey Books will be present with their books at the open day of the Cultural Center in Heemskerk.
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Saturday September 28 from 12 noon to 4 pm.
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Poveglia's Plague Doctor.
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