“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce In honor of this last Top 20 of 2019, please remember SOOP hopes to open a new book with you in […]

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” – Jane Smiley SOOP found a way to make you feel better by giving you a chance to more than see a book but to win a free book. Find out how you can start feeling better below… Yes, there’s still […]

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird What if someone told you you could never read again? Fear not! SOOP won’t let that happen to you. And to make up for such a scare, SOOP is giving you a […]

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”  ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons Winter is coming! Better stock up for your winter reading! How about a free book to add to your collection, courtesy of SOOP? That’s right! SOOP kicked off its […]

We have our new TOP 20 Book Ideas and Story Ideas for the week of November 18th to November 24th, 2019. “Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. […]

We have our new TOP 20 Book Ideas and Story Ideas for the week of November 11th to November 17th, 2019. “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” – Orson Scott Card If you’re one of the […]

We have our new TOP 20 Book Ideas and Story Ideas for the week of November 4th to November 10th, 2019. “I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.” —Erica Jong SOOP desensitizes its authors to judgment from the start. As soon as an author […]

We have our new TOP 20 Book Ideas and Story Ideas for the week of October 21st to October 27th, 2019. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable […]

We have our new TOP 20 Book Ideas and Story Ideas for the week of October 7th to October 13th, 2019. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ― Terry Pratchett Many authors have made similar statements regarding the first draft. Perhaps knowing no one else will read what you’re writing takes […]