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Continue reading →: Novel Progress and NaNoWriMoI thought I’d take a quick break from my cat blogs and give you an update on how my YA Fantasy/Romance manuscript, or should I say manuscripts, are going. Yep, somehow my small 65k word novel I was talking about in this post decided to morph itself into a trilogy. The main…
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Continue reading →: Attending my first writing workshop ‘Pitch Perfect’ and getting ready for pitchingThis past weekend I attended my first ever writing related workshop called ‘Pitch Perfect’, run by the New England Writer’s Centre (in Australia). The workshops include talks by many successful, local authors and will be held over three weekends, ending in a face to face, private 10 minute pitch with…
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Continue reading →: The nine stages of bloggingThere are around 65 million bloggers on WordPress – and god knows how many more that use other platforms. But no matter which one you use, it’s most likely that every single one of you go through the following nine stages (and if you don’t I bow down to you oh holy one):…
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Continue reading →: The nine stages of #thewriterslifeThere comes a time when every writer needs to step back and see what a #writerslife looks like from the outside – and yes it looks like cats. Be warned, these stages can come in any order, you can be in the middle of number 6 when suddenly inspiration strikes and…
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Continue reading →: There’s writing rules, and then there’s Chuck WendigIn my first big edit of my current WIP, I was keeping an eye out for simple spelling and grammar mistakes and glaring plot holes. Now that I am doing another more thorough edit of my novel, all I had to do was look up ‘Words to avoid while writing’, and I uncovered a whole…
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Continue reading →: When your publishing contract falls throughI have a confession to make, I have kept some exciting publishing news to myself, waiting for just the right moment to blog about it. And now I think it’s about time. I received an offer to have my book Under a Different Sky published by a small traditional press…
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Continue reading →: 10 Weird Things Writers DoNo, this article isn’t about the 10 strange ways that writers interact with cats. But it could be. Anyway… writers often do weird things for no apparent reason, but they wouldn’t have it any other way. So here are the 10 weird things writers often/sometimes/always do: 1. Frequent cafés with their…
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Continue reading →: The nine stages of waiting to hear back from a publisherYou’ve done it. 630 hours later and you’re ready to send your perfectly polished masterpiece off to the Big 5 (or the Small 254). But what happens next isn’t pretty… 1) Hitting the Send Button 2) Galloping around the house once you submit your masterpiece 3) Keeping yourself…
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Continue reading →: The nine stages of writer’s blockSome people say writer’s block doesn’t exist. That it’s just epic procrastination and laziness tied up in a pretty package. But it does exist. Oh. Hell. Yes. It. does. Sometimes it can last from a few hours to a few years (true story!) but the journey is still the same……
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Continue reading →: Submitting Your Manuscript to the Big 5 US PublishersHere’s a list of the Big 5 US Publishing Houses, their submission requirements and links to submission details. I’ve also included at the end of the list two smaller US Publishers that both Us and Non-U.S. citizens should be able to submit too. I thought they would serve as a…
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