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September Non-fiction and Food Writing Bootcamp with Sarah Lohman

Sarah Lohman will be leading a special week of online writing classes from September 12-15th. Each class will meet from 8-10pm Eastern Time on Zoom. Sign up for all four classes, and we'll send over a $20 rebate after registration.

Monday, September 12 - Non-fiction Book Proposals
Tuesday, September 13 - Intro to Food Writing
Wednesday, September 14 - Recipe Writing
Thursday, September 15 - How to Research

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Royal Mayhem and Murder

by David McNicoll

David is a longtime Brainery teacher and author of The Language of Whisky 

At two o’ clock in the morning, on the 10th of February 1567, Edinburgh was shaken by an enormous explosion in the district close to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The building, the Kirk o’ Field, was reduced to rubble, while in the adjacent orchard garden two dead men were found, half naked and murdered. It was a sensation that led to...

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Bookbinding from Home Materials List

Week 1 Pamphlet 
 
Necessary: 
  • Paper (thinner papers like copy paper or lined paper work well) 
  • Cardstock (or old folders, construction paper, cereal boxes ) 
  • Scissors
  • A needle 
  • Thread (bookbinding thread or embroidery floss or dental floss) 
  • Something to poke holes (an awl, a nail, a safety pin, a pen or pencil) 
  • Pencil 
Optional: 
  • Collage materials (magazines, paper, paint) 
  • Bone...

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A Stroll down Beer Street and Gin Lane

Guest Blog post by:

David McNicoll
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The city was going to hell in a handcart. So was the received wisdom of the great and good, the movers and shakers of mid-eighteenth-century London, and to their canting moralizing minds the reason was that age-old scapegoat, Gin.

The historical relationship that gin has had with consumers, authority and the public of large is so complex and neurotic...

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