Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
A whole book on apostrophes?
Someone — I can’t remember who — gifted me a splendid little book.
(thank you if it was you)
It’s a 62-page, cloth-bound hard-back, beautifully designed, and just 105 x 158 mm.
Pocket sized.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
It’s the content, though, that makes it a true MicroBook.
It’s a book on grammar… but that’s far too broad a description.
There are many, many books on grammar out there.
Many, many of them are deeply boring.
And out of date.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
(because grammar changes, and if you don't like that, tough titties)
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
This little book, though, is a delight because it focuses on those most rage-inducing of punctuation marks — the apostrophe.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
There are 4 chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion, and by the time you’re done you’ll know exactly how to use apostrophes and have some interesting new sentences to try out.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
I use this book as an example when I talk about MicroBooks because:
• It’s extremely specific.
• It’s not a book on grammar; it’s a book on apostrophes: a brief history in the intro, then how to use them in every situation.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
• By the time you’ve finished reading it, you know how to use a fucking apostrophe.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
• The author, Simon Griffin, has smothered it in his personality and it’s very amusing and most enjoyable to read.
How many grammar books can you say that about?
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
This is an absolutely stealable idea.
I don’t mean copy Simon Griffin and write a MicroBook about Fucking Apostrophes.
I mean, take a look at what he’s done, and see how you can apply it to an idea you might have.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
When we look at teeny tiny books, I think we often think “stocking filler” and that’s as far as we get.
And, yes, some of them are stocking fillers and never get looked at beyond Christmas.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
But when I talk about MicroBooks, I mean mighty ideas in a micro package
— a transformative idea you want to share, that the reader can devour in a couple of hours, and emerge a changed human.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
An amuse-bouche that introduces the reader to a new way of looking at the world.
And introduces them to you.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
I know it can be difficult to narrow down a book idea; it’s the number 1 challenge I help my clients deal with, actually.
Okay, maybe it’s number 2 after the whole “who am I to write a book, I can’t do this” malarkey.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
But that’s what MicroBook Magic is here for.
Your ideas are blazing.
They’re mind-changers.
And they should be out there transforming people's thinking!
In MicroBook Magic, that’s what we do.
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Vicky Quinn Fraser 🚢
2y ago
If you’d like to know more, DM me.
Or go to
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WxEW4rzmCEQ0ciROs5jKHluv1rr9KZp2z66kBwJ5yuM/edit?usp=sharing
And sign up before midnight tonight for a 25% discount.
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