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Publishing books is like investing, NOT like winning the lottery
Cassandra Page:This is a great analogy for a writing career. I’ve never really been someone that expected to win the lottery in any case! Originally posted on Tammy Farrell: Publishing books is like...
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Kickstarter, Stacey Jay, and sexism…
Warning: this is a long post. I have my rantypants on. So there was a(nother) scandal in the YA world this week. An author going by the pen name of Stacey Jay — I gather she writes romance too, under...
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I Found My Green-Eyed Monster
I had a moment of personal clarity the other day. I’ve often thought that I was pretty Zen about my position in the writing world. I don’t have an agent or a publishing contract with a big press, but I...
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Plotting (and scheming): the bad guy
I’m halfway through drafting a historical fantasy inspired by Ancient Greece. I’ve had this idea in my head for two years — since before I wrote either Lucid Dreaming or Melpomene’s Daughter — and I’d...
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Guest post: ‘How I Became a Writer’ by Lauren K. McKellar
Today’s guest post is by the fabulous Lauren K. McKellar, who is one of my favourite contemporary authors. If you think that’s a big call, go read one of her books and see for yourself! — Cass Like...
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My mini writing retreat
This week I’ve been on a long-anticipated mini writing retreat. Only I didn’t stay in a house by the beach, or in a rainforest cabin, but in my own home. I took this week off work, which meant that...
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The Anatomy of a Grammar Nerd
So when Grammarly emailed me about something called the Anatomy of a Grammar nerd, I thought they’d be talking about how we have dictionaries for brains or pain receptors triggered by dangling...
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Writing prompts
Cassandra Page:Today I’m over at Aussie Owned and Read, talking about writing prompts – two-to-three-sentence ideas to get your imagination firing and your fingers flying over the keyboard. (Or your...
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Ten examples of how the English language is trolling us
Regular readers of my blog will know that my full-time job is as an editor. You’d think that I’d be fully across all the various, ugly, beautiful permutations of English and its stupid-arse spelling....
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Review: ‘Out of the Shadows’ by Ashlee Nicole Bye
Nobody ever said death would be easy… From the streets of Melbourne to the bowels of Westminster, the delicate balance between life and death that is so painstakingly maintained by the reapers of The...
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