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Ben Jeapes
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Husband, stepfather, ghostwriter and author whose work spans two millennia.
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How do you tell someone's story to best effect? One ghostwriter lets us know. #ghostwriting #biography
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Complete Strangers
Very soon—just after Christmas, I would imagine—I’m going to start doing something which is weird. I am going spend hours grilling a complete stranger so they reveal the most intimate facts of thei…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Novel ideas breeding uncontrollably? Call in an expert.
#ghostwriting #Creativity #WritingTip
GHOSTWRITING NOVELS: A GUIDE FOR GHOSTWRITERS AND THE GHOSTWRITTEN.
www.ghostwritingnovels.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Today's word: RUN. Excerpt is from my #paranormal YA novel OUT OF BODY.
#bookqw #yalit #yabooks #kidlit #bookexcerpt #bookstagram
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#booksky #bookqw word: RUN

Journeyman fairy-smith Jedediah has been summoned to deal with a mist that came creeping in on white feet.

This turns out not to be a figure of speech.
Jack Lenden had a great deal to say about the speed with which the mist had come in, running on white feet; in another man Jedediah might have taken this literally, but Mister Lenden was an excitable fellow and prone to a little trouble telling what he witnessed from what he feared. It was quite a surprise, therefore, to see the man had not been wrong: the mist hung over the northernmost field, which was scrubby and steep, and for that reason kept for sheep. The fact that the stone wolves were also to the north must have been an added worry for the Lendens, but this didn’t look like a wolf- mist. It was fringed all around with little white twists, thin enough to see through, but coiled into a pattern of unmistakable, delicate paws. They weren’t vulpine; they were soft-looking, with claws of pallid light. Seen individually they had a prettiness to them, like the foot of a cat or a stoat, but as they carried on around the entire blinding cloud, the whole thing had rather more the look of a woodlouse, a great hump of white carried along on infinite shifting toes.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's word is RUN, which all of my guys do a LOT of. In Cursed Under London, one of the first things Lazare & Amber the dragon do together is try to leg it away from muggers. #BookQW buying links: farragobooks.com/book/cursed-...
Quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: ‘He’s making a run for it!’ shouted Herbert. ‘Cheeky sod,’ Randall exclaimed. They both lunged at Lazare, who turned and ran. Ahead of him in the alley, he saw Amber, running as fast as her little stumpy legs could carry her – which wasn’t very fast, not that Lazare was anyone to judge. He wasn’t one of nature’s great athletes. Generally, if an activity was worth Lazare messing up his hairdo or rumpling his doublet for, it had to be something he really enjoyed. As far as he was concerned, those activities were confined to acting, dancing and/or making love, so while he considered himself extremely skilled in those three things, he was not at all practised in the art of running away – let alone while encumbered by all of his worldly possessions.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Today's Book Quote Wednesday is 'run'. A confrontation arises over whether to continue a dangerous journey, or turn away and face the consequences.
#BookQW #scifibooks #scifimonth #BookSky💙📚
The two nodded and left, but Syndac lingered. She watched as Solet picked up a datapad and began scrolling through a report. Finally he looked at her, giving his weary eyes as much steely command as he could muster. “Is there something else?” “Yes. You’re thinking of quitting.” “Wouldn’t you under the circumstances?” “I suppose. But think about what you are about to give up.” “Yeah. Our ship running out of fuel and being abandoned, and us not getting home. Or worse, running out of fuel and just being left behind by those other vultures we had to partner with. Remember, I agreed to this because it looked like a good deal. If this thing starts getting out of hand—” “Can it!” Syndac leaned forward and slammed both hands on the table as she glared into her captain’s face, her voice switching abruptly from snappish to formal. “I grow sick of your whining. Listen to me. We both knew what this trip might risk, we both did it for one reason and one reason only. Money. With the money we can get from this, we can finally dig ourselves up from this miserable pit of sick that stands in for a career. Sailing a junk around the Outer Worlds, picking up the dirty jobs no one wants to, taking duff deals because they’re the only deals we can take, being outrun and outshone by every other freighter in the whole Cluster!” “I don’t need that kind of talk from you.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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On this Book Quote Wednesday the word is 'run' and the mermaids and selkies of St Senara have been brought on land for a hunt... #BookQW
Check it out in my new Lost and Found collection from KoFi ko-fi.com/s/fd533bb2ea or Amzn amzn.to/3M5EWJ4
Black and white cover image of Lost and Found collection showing mermaid in water and reader sitting down on land, with text extract saying ‘We have a cover?’ the Sarge asked. ‘Just a bunch of holiday makers on an amble. Ness, you scoot around behind them and be ready to follow them if they run. Sarge, you stay here with Fin, I’ll take our lovely selkie boys and ham it up. See if we can get close enough to sense out the skin.’ ‘And what if you do?’ the Sarge asked. ‘Then I’ll sing them into the water and keep them distracted while someone nicks the skin back and makes a quick retreat. We can work out suitable retribution once Fin’s got his skin back on.’
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'run' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain and his girlfriend Fin would like to get on with managing their own lives without supernatural interference. They should remember to be careful what they wish for.
A contemporary fantasy series rooted in British myths and folklore.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: ‘Fin and I had been talking about moving in together for more than a year now. We’d agreed to find somewhere near Blithehurst. Fin can work from anywhere, but my job isn’t one I can do from home. We’d seen nice enough houses which we could afford within reasonable driving distance. They were in towns though, or much bigger villages than this one. Neither of us was keen on that. I’d grown up in a little old house out on its own in the countryside. These days, I lived in a cottage in the Blithehurst woods, well away from the manor. I wasn’t looking forward to having neighbours. Human neighbours, that is. We’d both be happy to put a bit of distance between us and the dryads in Blithehurst’s woods as well. They seemed to think they could run my life, with or without the Green Man’s permission. Frai, the eldest, who’d lived there since the Norman Conquest, said he hadn’t called on me for months, so I might as well make myself useful. I’d been up and down the country telling solitary dryads living in remnants of wild wood about each other. They started giving me oak saplings to take from one wood to another, and younger dryads began appearing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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For #BookQW, the word is 'run'. Here, we encounter one of the deadlier hazards of the Rust Graveyard.

#BookQuoteWednesday
A lull in the wind coincided with his foot knocking against a pile of debris. A small length of pipe rolled away from him, off the edge of the gantry, and sang a cacophony as it clattered between the supporting struts. The machine geist turned, zeroed in on him instantly, and flew directly for him. Garnas squeezed the trigger and felt the steam pressure build up in the chamber as the water met the heavy coal. The barrel spat angrily, but the rock shards fell harmlessly wide of the geist. It was rushing now, faster than a man could run, fast as nightmares, and taking on a more solid form. Garnas pulled another cartridge from his belt and slipped it into the gun, brought the weapon back up to his cheek, snatched at the trigger. He could hear every ping and whistle as the chamber came up to pressure.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: RUN. #Excerpt is from BETWEEN LAND AND SEA. #Mermaid #Fantasy #bookqw
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'run'. In 'Walking a Wounded Land' by Andrew Knighton in Wiz Duo 3, Paul is looking for a friend. #BookQW
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I follow a twisting, turning route through the streets, trying to follow the thread of her. It’s made more difficult by people walking this way and that, bumping into each other, stopping to stare into shop windows or to wait at crossings for the green man. I switch my pace to match tourists or locals, different memories emerging with different movements. For some this town is the daily grind, swift footsteps carrying them through regular routines. For others, its a place of escape and diversion, of pausing to read a menu or point at a brightly painted boat, then hurrying on to the amusement arcades. Lives lived in a single space but parallel worlds. Through that space run the cars, severing one side of the street from the other, breaking the rhythm of humanity. So close together, we should all be connected, but instead the town is fractured, opaque, like a windscreen in the aftermath of a crash. Star has hidden herself in this.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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#Bookqw word: RUN
#BookSky #WritingCommunity
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#BookQW is from DECEITFUL PROMISES (A Letters to Santa Story)

“So, this is what a Harvard education has done to you. I should have fought your mother on it and …” #CONTINUEREADING: bit.ly/3KqMhCy

#readersky #historicalfiction #Christmasfiction #Americanhistoricalfiction #historicaldetective
11/26/25 BookQW = RUN
DECEITFUL PROMISES (A Letters to Santa Story) This Christmas promises may deceive, but love could be the miracle they never expected. ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Allison tracks a monster on the run!

Series starter--> www.amazon.com/Dragons-Walk...
#ya #wip #BooksWorthReading #WRPBKS #bookqw
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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#BookQW He couldn't bear the thought of answering any of their questions. Like "Where is Dani?" and "What did you do to make her RUN away?" ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID https://books2read.com/Always-a-Bridesmaid # #FakeRelationship #FriendstoLovers #RomanticComedy #ContemporaryRomance #Booksky #romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today's #BookQW word: RUN

WAITING FOR A FOREVER LOVE

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"Excellent Read...filled with plenty of wry humor and a mystery."

#Mustread #Bestselling #Contemporary #Holiday #Adventure #Romance #Mystery #Series #EnemiestoLovers #romanticreads #swoonworthyromance #BookSky
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Today's #BookQW word is 'run'.

Drew's been kept in the dark too long, and has resorted to eavesdropping to find out what his lover's getting up to. It's not at all what he suspected.

Extract from Waterborne Exile, second in the series, ebook available here: angryrobotbooks.com/books/waterb...
The sound was far more distinct from the right side of the fireplace. Drew hesitated, then stooped down and gently opened the cupboard doors. The cupboard was more or less empty, containing a few folded cloths and nothing else. And when he peered through to the back he could see a tiny chink of light from the room beyond. On closer inspection he realised that side was closed off by a wooden panel which had split along the grain. It was through this crack the sound of conversation was reaching him. He couldn’t help himself now, and leaned closer. The Ellisquay traders were doing most of the talking. Drew struggled to follow the thick Ellisquay accent at the best of times, but now, well-lubricated, they were talking faster than ever, and talking over one another. He could make out odd words, but could not get the gist of what they were saying at all. Occasionally Jervin, seated at the far side of the room, interpolated a lazy comment in his low voice, but mostly he was letting them run on. Drew could picture him sitting there, glass in hand, smiling to himself as the drunken traders spilled their secrets. It was not the orgiastic scene he’d half expected to find – his initial flush of relief was rapidly followed by shame that he hadn’t trusted Jervin in the first place. Goddess, what was wrong with him these days? How could he have doubted him? Jervin was simply sitting there, smiling to himself, with murder in his heart. Cover of Waterborne Exile by Susan Murray. A woman dressed in a blood-spattered white gown moves past the viewer, holding a bowl of blood before her in both hands. A bloodstained dagger is tucked in her belt. Cover art by Paul Young.
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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It’s Book Quote Wednesday, and today’s word is “run.” www.brianandersonmysteries.com www.amazon.com/stores/autho... #BookQW #wrpbks #mystery #BookSky
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#Bookqw 'run' from COLVIN, my third Intergalactic Dating Agency novella... #romancelandia #scifiromance #booksky www.amazon.com/COLVIN-Inter...
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Special Pre-Order Price!
"Reckless Disregard and Other Stories is a marvelous collection showing the unexpected and sometimes dark side of life." ~
Kim Janine Ligon, author of Running to Daylight
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#BookQW #PreOrder #ShortStories
Drawing of folded newspaper. "No, I don't," she said, although she had bought a copy of the one that had a small article headed "Fatal Hit and #Run," in which her own name appeared, something that had never happened before.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Today's word is RUN. Today's #BookQW from Third Time Lucky & Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World. This e-collection contains my first professional sale, initially written on vacation in Cuba circa 1982. The CRS would not allow me to deduct the trip as a business expense...
Digital cover of THIRD TIME LUCKY in the upper left. Lizard from the cover under the text. Magdelene watched a rivulet of sweat run over the corded muscles of his stomach to disappear behind his embroidered, linen loincloth. He looked to be about twenty years older than Joah; tall and sleekly muscular. His skin was a little darker and, just now, glistened in the sunlight. She smiled. Even in the midst of disaster, Magdelene could appreciate the finer things in life. " If you're looking for Joah," she said at last, rolling her eyes as Zayd leapt backward and dropped his spear into a fighting stance, "she isn't here." "Where is the wizard?" Zayd demanded. Magdelene polished off a muffin and bowed.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today's #BookQW is "run" and here, Rachael sees Lucian for the first time in years ...
Run: Lucian kept his right leg away from her and leaned heavily on his cane. Blood seeped into his beard from a wound on his cheek. Beneath his tan, his skin was sallow, the circles beneath his eyes black. In his gaze Rachael immediately recognized the agony no drug could heal. She knew that look well. She had broken all her mirrors so she wouldn’t have to see her own distraught stare day after day. Now her pain looked back at her through his dark eyes, and for one blind moment, she wanted to run him through with her sword. Just to make their anguish stop. www.tfrohock.com #BookQW
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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It’s Book Quote Wednesday and the word of the day is RUN.

🖤 Second chances have a way of waiting on paths you never meant to wander...

#thepassengernovel #supernaturalfiction #ghoststorieswithheart #fictionthatlingers #booksky #bookish #bookworms #hauntingstories #upmarketsupernatural #bookqw
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is RUN. Two technologically advanced hereditary enemies meet on neutral territory: England in 1645. #bookqw #englishcivilwar #neanderthals www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Or, if the words won't come, hire someone who can help you.
#ghostwriting #Creativity #WritingTip
GHOSTWRITING NOVELS: A GUIDE FOR GHOSTWRITERS AND THE GHOSTWRITTEN.
www.ghostwritingnovels.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM