by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate the release of our Shakespeare themed coloring book, Color The Bard: A Coloring Book Featuring the Sonnets, Sound, And Fury of William Shakespeare, we’ve collected some of his most famous quotes about life and love. Though William Shakespeare has... 
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Jul 3, 2020 | Books, Writing
In his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell lays out “The Hero’s Journey” inspired by psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s take on myths from various cultures around the world. Much more complicated than Freytag’s Pyramid, this framework for storytelling... 
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Jun 25, 2020 | Writing
Just from hearing stories, watching movies, or reading books, you probably have an inherent understanding of the basics of plot structure. But truly understanding the building blocks of storytelling and the most effective blueprints for building complex structures can... 
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Apr 24, 2020 | Design, Publishing
Potential readers searching for their next book spend between three to five seconds looking at a cover on digital and physical bookshelves before they move on to the next one. That means you only have a few seconds to communicate what your book is about and intrigue...
I once owned the old cottage across the lane, and the twenty-five acres of moss-covered grassland that it sits on, up a switch-back lane off the Calry Road in North Leitrim.