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A writer’s space
I made a huge decision last night: I decided to sell my house and downsize to something smaller, something my three-year-old and I don’t rattle around in like marbles in a bathtub. I love my current...
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How “Professional” Writing Experience Can Help / Hurt You as a Novelist
This guest post is written by the divine Veronica Park! How it HELPS: 1. You probably don’t subscribe to the ‘no words without inspiration’ school of thought. Or, better yet, you’ve trained yourself to...
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Signing with a small press
This is a guest post by Louise Gornall, about how she signed with the small press Entranced Publishing. As some of you may know I recently signed with Entranced Publishing. I wanted to write this post...
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Indie publishing: pricing your book
This guest post is by JC Emery, independent author. Being an independent author is about more than having the freedom to do as you please, though that is a definite draw. After being underwhelmed by...
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On how you write and how you live
I like my books like I like my home: tidy, not too cluttered, and functional. Over the past two weeks, as my regular reader will know, I’ve been getting my house ready to sell. That has involved...
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Collaboration, not competition
A guest post by Sharon Sant on one of the downsides of Twitter. I’d love to hear what you think. I’ve made a lot of friends through writing. Many of these are in real life, through my university course...
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Knowing When to Follow the Rules and When to Break ’Em
I hope you enjoy this guest post by Lori A. Goldstein. I first discovered her novel, BECOMING JINN, when she and I both entered the same competition. Needless to say, she did a little better than I...
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Writing fight scenes
I came a little unstuck in drafting my current work in progress last week. The WIP is an urban fantasy, like my last two, but this time it’s for adults rather than young adults. Anyway, I was working...
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Interview: Natalie Miller, performer and writer
Once upon a time, a long time ago (let’s not dwell on how long), I went to school with a wonderful girl named Natalie. We shared the same interest in writing and drama—except where I went on to be a...
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Thursday’s Children: finding time to write
Rhiann Wynn-Nolet suggested to me that a solution to my bouts of disillusionment about the growing pile of agent rejections (other than to write something else, which I’m doing) was to join the group...
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Fiction isn’t just imagination: researching your novel
Today’s guest post is by the amazing Nicole Evelina, whose dedication to research is awe-inspiring. Don’t believe me? Check out her blog! I’m a historical fiction writer, so I do a lot of research. But...
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Interview: Summer Heacock, Women’s Fiction writer
Remember how a while back I mentioned an amazing woman on Twitter who’d just drafted an entire novel in four days? (No, that isn’t a typo. FOUR (4)!) Her name is Summer Heacock and she kindly agreed to...
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The genre dilemma: urban-paranormal-fantasy? Para-urban-tasy?
I commented a little while ago that ISLA’S INHERITANCE, my first novel, is either urban fantasy or paranormal fiction, depending how you look at it. I usually call it urban fantasy. On the off chance a...
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Website design: creating an attractive author image
Today’s guest post is by Amber A. Bardan, contemporary and paranormal romance writer and winner of North Texas Romance Writers of America‘s 2013 Great Expectations. I’m so excited to be guest blogging...
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Imprecise use of pronouns, with Doctor Who!
Have you entered my double Amazon giveaway yet, which I’m running to celebrate my book deal and 1000 Twitter followers? The details are here. One thing I see a lot at work is people using pronouns...
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The Business of Writing
Reblogged from The Daily Dahlia: You know when all of a sudden all these things converge at once and kind of spin your world on its axis a bit with the way they all play into one another to give you...
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Seeking feedback: the importance of critique partners
Writer’s toolbox: an artist’s impression. (Original photo from wiki commons.) Stephen King—who is pretty much the god of writing as far as I’m concerned—said writers should write with the door closed,...
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Will their world survive? World-building for a series
This guest post is by one of my fellow authors over at Turquoise Morning Press, Bobbye Terry. A veteran at writing in created worlds, she’s talking to us today about world-building. Enter, stage right,...
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Dystopian fiction and ‘Runners’
This guest post is by Sharon Sant, whose new dystopian novel, Runners, came out on 7 June. The Oxford dictionary defines dystopia as: ‘an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or...
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Thoughts on pitching contests
I’ve got a new-found respect for agents. Those of you who’ve been reading my blog for a while know that I highly rate pitching contests. They are a great way to hone your pitch, query or first pages....
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