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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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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And out of date.

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2y ago

(because grammar changes, and if you don't like that, tough titties)

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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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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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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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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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