“Their revelations are so true I feel not so much like I’m being taught, as reminded.” ~ Student, on Good Novels, in presentation just now. What a powerful reminder of the purpose of a good story. Reminds me of another quote that I’ve forgotten the source of: Your job as a writer is simply […]
Mostly about backing up your stuff, because my USB died DED this week, and despite the fact that I spent long and frustrated hou– mi– er, periods of time installing portable dropbox on it, it failed to sync to the net on Sunday last week, and I’ve lost an entire chapter of The Novel. It
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Wow, it’s been forever since I did a link-a-bet. I think maybe not since the blog lived on Blogger! o.O But anyway, tonight: a selection of Things I Have Found. First of all, I am tremendously excited. My writing – I hesitate to say idol, because in my social context that’s a no-no, but
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There. Is that blunt enough? 😀 Read the details here, in my last post, the one with the curiously ineffective title 😛 😀 Read more:Literally This Is How To MapPractising In Public, Or, I Have A Book Coming Out in May :3An Interview With… Me??
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So, either because I’ve never had to do this before, or because my brain is absent (I’m home sick), or for any other semi-plausible reason you care to pick, I really have no idea how to do this. So I’ll just do it, shall I? I have a book contract. There. Announced. …No? I have
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Whee! The anthology, Tales from the SFR Brigade, is on early release! You can pick a copy up FOR FREE from Smashwords in pretty much all existing formats 🙂 Please note that the anthology is NOT rated PG: there is sex and swearing, though neither on-scene in my story 😉 Experience love and adventure among
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Just a quick note to, er, note (sorry :D) that I am using my LiveJournal again. This blog is more for actual posts about actual topics, linkage, book reviews, etc. The LiveJournal, she is for the nitty-gritty of writing like daily wordcounts. Don’t expect insight or usefulness over there; however, if you happen to want
Look! I’m in another anthology! Considering how little writing I’m doing these days, I find this quite exciting :o) Tales from the SFR Brigade will be a free anthology of stories by members of the SFR Brigade, SFR being Science Fiction Romance. There are even a couple of big name authors involved, most notably Linnea
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So, just for the heck of it, I’m practising queries. Actually, also because I’ve dug out Sanctuary again and am plodding onwards with edits. I’m nearly done with Draft 2, and I’m rather hopefully that it will only need up to a Draft 4 before it’s DONE-done. Hopefully. :S Anyway, in the spirit of procrastination
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Oh, lookit wot I found! So, I’ve been tidying up the site a bit. I have a template I’m actually pretty happy with now, the HollyShop rebate is open again (including for How To Think Sideways and How to Revise Your Novel, whee!) (details here), and the blog has moved on in. And yes, I
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