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How to kill your darlings: advice on literary murder from author Chuck Bowie
It’s a real pleasure to welcome author Chuck Bowie back to my blog, with some advice on how to cut your finest pieces of prose without crying. Thanks for coming, Chuck. And to everyone else – prepare...
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Author Joan Leotta on writing short articles
With the proliferation of websites, blogs and e-zines, there’s never been a better time for writers to target the market for short articles. I’m delighted to welcome author Joan Leotta today, with a...
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Promoting your new book – advice from #MFRWauthor @kayelleallen
About a year ago I joined an excellent support group called Marketing for Romance Writers. The group was started by Kayelle Allen, initially for romance writers, as the title suggests, but now, because...
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Author Mary Waibel on using Tweetdeck to manage Twitter
Twitter is a great asset to authors – a place to find out and share information, as well as to tell the world about our books. The trouble is, it does take quite some dedication to make the most of it....
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How do writers “hear” their characters?
Image courtesy of Pixabay Last week I caught the tail end of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book programme. It was a fascinating discussion about how writers actually “hear” the voices of their characters (you...
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A brilliant book of writing tips by romance and mystery authors
In August last year my author friend JQ Rose invited me and several others to share our favourite writing tips in a series of posts running on her blog from October to February. JQ Rose had had the...
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Some essential tips for self-publishing on Amazon
This week’s been an exciting week for me. I recently received back the rights to two of my novels – The Antique Love and The Silk Romance – and just yesterday I released both books on Amazon. But...
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Some surprising tips on pitching to an agent (and some not so surprising)
Last week I was at the Ilkley Literature Festival – a series of writing-related workshops and talks held every year here in the north of England. One of the talks was given by Andrew Lownie, who deals...
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The importance of setting in a romance novel, with author Jennifer Young
I’m chuffed to welcome back Scottish author Jennifer Young today. Jennifer is a fellow member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and she came to my blog last year (you can read her interview...
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The greatest secondary characters in fiction – and when they aren’t really...
It’s another month, and time for a Round Robin, and this month author Rhobin Courtwright has given us another excellent topic to mull over: Secondary characters have many functions in stories. Have...
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