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5 Things To Do While Your Book is on Submission

Originally posted on Carly Watters, Literary Agent:
Submitting your book to agents is one thing. It’s a writer’s first time putting it all out there and the responses are varied. However, when your agent submits your book to a publisher that’s a whole other level of stress. It can be exciting!?Finally, it’s out there in…

An 8 Point Guide to Creating The Perfect Writer’s CV

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I had to update my CV this week and then for one reason or another I had to create a writers CV as well. This stumped me. I mean, what does that even look like? I’d never written a CV just for my writing stuff before. What is it meant…

#MondayBlogs: When Writing is Not All You Do

Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Intro: Back in February of 2013, I wrote a little blog post called Writing Tips: How to Handle Rejection. A huge part of this post was dedicated to John Tompkins. At the time, he wrote a blog called Rejection Love Letters (Or How to Lose Agents and Alienate Publishers).…

Romance Writers Weekly #lovewritechat

Originally posted on A Writer's Life For Me.:
Romance Weekly time 😀 If you’ve joined me from the incredible Kim Handysides then welcome! This week we’ve been asked, ‘What everyone is working on at the moment. Details & conundrums, plus five bonus points for including a wee bit of your favourite scene.’ Well, as…

Books and Reading Thursday: Two birds, one stone…

Originally posted on A Writer's Life For Me.:
So, as you might have read, I have currently been reading and completing the first practical writing craft book on my TBR list. And I have to say it’s brilliant! The confidence it has boosted in me as a writer is amazing, and it’s really helping…

Romance Weekly Blog Hop #lovewritechat

Originally posted on A Writer's Life For Me.:
It’s Romance Weekly time! Welcome to all those joining me from the awesome Dani Jace’s blog, author of White Doe. This week’s question came from Sarah Hegger and was about opening lines: A great opening line draws the reader in, makes them want to know more…

Books Sold by Genre: Or Why You Should Write Children’s Books

Originally posted on Taipei Writers Group:
See, this is why J.K. Rowling was a genius. She wrote in the children’s fiction plus fantasy genre, so that puts her books in over half of the most popular books ever sold. The below chart shows an estimate of all the books ever sold by genre. Which genre…

KAI Presents… Margaret Lynette Sharp!

Romance Weekly Blog Hop #lovechatwrite

Originally posted on A Writer's Life For Me.:
It’s Romance Weekly blog hop time! If you’ve hopped over from A.S. Fenichel’s wonderful blog, then welcome! So, this week, we’ve been asked- What quirky habits (superstitions, must haves, etc.) do you have while writing? It’s an interesting question as I’m quite a compulsive person. A…

On to 2015!

Originally posted on A Writer's Life For Me.:
So, here we are- The beginning of a fresh New Year. I hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas and a great start to 2015 🙂 I thought about doing a round up post for 2014, but when I look back on it I was pretty overwhelmed.…

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