The WHY, WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHAT and HOW of scenes In editing my current WIP, I found I had snippets…
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I decided Keepers needed a makeover – a new cover (and blurb) to better reflect that this is a story…
September’s By the Letter newsletter went out Friday 10 September. Among the news and views was my review of A…
The draft is done. Yay! Now it’s time for editing. When I read that someone’s manuscript is with their editor,…
Updated October 2022 I’d never heard of beta readers when I (poorly) published my first books, a fantasy trilogy. If…
First posted last summer, I was reminded of this when I recently visited a local school to read from Guardians.…
It’s proving challenging to pick up a manuscript from three years ago and get back into the story and the…
Point of View (POV) – a general explanation As writers, we constantly come across explanations of the different kinds of…
Dragon Gift is a collection of stories with fairytale, myth or fairytale-like themes of varying length and gravity. ‘Lille herself…