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Welcome aboard, Tom. Crime with a paranormal bent - I'm intrigued :) Have you read Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett? That's full-on fantasy with an excellent spin on the Sherlock Holmes type duo. Or Litopia's own guest on Pop Ups (sadly...

Thanks @RK Wallis Love echidnas, and fortunate to have them wander through the backyard on a regular basis😊

Welcome aboard @Echidna :) Cool name, and what an awesome part of oz to live!

Hi everyone, A Kiwi, happily domiciled on a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, I recently become an Australian citizen. Those that know me have sugggested I may still be suffering from the effects of the lobotomy this process entails (i'm...

Dune is like that. Zooming in and out of different characters thoughts and perspectives, but keeping the 'view' on everyone at once.

Kind of. [I may be about to split some hairs] An omniscient narrator is another character in the story. They may loom critically-large over the narrative, or simply provide neutral access to a variety of minds, but they do tend to adopt some of...

That's the key with all of it, isn't it? It's poor writing that we notice, the brilliant stuff just sweeps us away. I'd say with omniscient, there aren't any POV shifts anyway, or there shouldn't be. It's all from that one oversight. I've just...

I read that recently. Has been gathering dust on my bookshelf for years (inherited it when my nan died) I decided to give it a read just before Christmas. So well done omniscient POV, and a good story too.

Go BookTokers!

Shocking bias and unfair to all those great writers struggling to get a deal.

When Luke Bateman – Australian former rugby player, former TV Bachelor 2023 star – joined BookTok to talk about his love of fantasy novels, his first video alone generated 2 million views. But as his overnight success produced a two-book deal...

I'll try again. Everything went south last month (pun intended)

and a fantasy example is Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. Sublime omniscient. She's a master. You don't notice the POV shifts (unless you're looking for them and then you just think WOW!).

This is a summation of the entire indie industry, sadly.

Aw, I'm sorry that happened to you. I had the same thing done to me when I started out. It boils down to telling kids to use training wheels to learn to balance the bike. It makes it easier for some kids, other kids get on, fall down, repeat...