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Workspace Blog Hop

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Pamela nominated me to take part in the Workspace Blog Hop back in September last year, sharing where we each work and write. Recently Alienora also passed along the baton. And I am afraid, I am going to cheat and share again some of the post I…

How To Take Charge And Write Your Own Way

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I love reading blogs written by other writers, editors, publishers and general creative bods. I particularly love reading blogs on ‘writing’ and how to write better. That’s why in my own blog I like to explore the lessons I’m learning as I progress on my journey to be a writer. But…

The Secret To The Quickest Edit You Can Do

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I have these awful words that plague me. I call them crutch words. They are those pesky words when I am in the zone writing a first draft that creep into my work…over and over and over again. They are an annoyance, an irritation, a PLAGUE on my life! They are the…

Cover Reveal: Minutes Before Sunset by Shannon A. Thompson

Originally posted on Legends of Windemere:
Minutes Before Sunset by Shannon A. Thompson Minutes Before Sunset, book 1 of The Timely Death Trilogy Awarded Goodreads’ Book of the Month in July 2012 Releases July 28, 2015 – Second edition by Clean Teen Publishing, new cover and new interior! Current Rating on Goodreads: 146 ratings, 4.3…

Amazon, Ebooks, and Advertising

Originally posted on Publishing Insights:
There has been a lot of mixed reactions toward Amazon putting advertisements on Kindle, especially when it was first launched in 2011. Today I wish to bring this issue back into the spotlight and invite you to re-examine it together. In the article Why Advertising Could Become Amazon’s Knockout Punch, Joe Wikert attributes…

Writespiration #32

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
If this?Writespiration?inspired you then jot a few words, a poem or a story and post below and I will post them with a link to your blog in next weeks post. Here’s mine: What is Love? By Sacha Black “What does it feel like, Mama?” “What does what feel like,…

Author incomes – when does the money come in?

Author incomes – when does the money come in?

Originally posted on writerlywitterings:
This is a quick post to answer the question I have been asked several times recently, which is: how soon are authors paid for their work? Oh, boy, I remember the day Marion Donaldson called me to confirm that Headline wanted to buy my first book, and that she wanted another…

The benefits of publishing through a publisher 

Originally posted on Suffolk Scribblings:
licensed under creative commons. Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/89228431@N06/ ? I’ve written many times about why I decided to self-publish and the pros and cons of going down this route, often by comparing a positive of indie publishing compared to a negative of going through a publisher. Because of this, I may occasionally…

The Crafting Characters Series #4 5 Reasons You Need to Find Your Character’s Face

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I read an article once, that said our brains are incapable of creating faces from scratch. I have no proof backing this up, but it seems a reasonable enough suggestion given the complexity of faces. For the purposes of this blog. This means that every face you see in your…

Building Your Author Platform: How to Choose Your Pen Name

Building Your Author Platform: How to Choose Your Pen Name

Originally posted on Kate M. Colby:
Once you have decided to start building your author platform, the first thing you need to do is select the pen name under which you plan to publish. This is an extremely important decision, and for some authors, it will be more difficult than others. Your pen name is…

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