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‘By the Letter’ monthly newsletter

October 11, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

Sign up for ‘By the Letter’ for news, tips, stories and extracts (exclusive to subscribers), interviews and book reviews… Go…

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Great opportunity for avid e-book readers!

January 22, 2021 cheryl Leave a comment

Likely I should have had a more detailed plan before now, but hey … we’ll get there! But what I’m…

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Posted in: For the readers among us, Writing tips Filed under: e-books, newsletter, readers, story origin

Newsletter No. 1 has gone!

January 12, 2021 cheryl Leave a comment

I was thrilled with the positive feedback for my inaugural newsletter. There was a bit of news, an extract for…

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Posted in: For the readers among us, News Filed under: competition, newslettter

Second person, present tense: 2 pros, 2 cons

January 6, 2021 cheryl Leave a comment

As a homework exercise for Dean Writers Circle, I suggested writing a piece in second person, present tense. Not something…

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Posted in: Writing tips Filed under: second person

Newsletter preparation…

December 30, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

Having spent the time before Christmas setting this up, I’m thrilled at how people are responding to my invitation to…

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Christmas Eve 2020

December 24, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

Why wait until the new year to do an overview? It’s been an ‘interesting’ year (old Chinese curse: May you…

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Confidence boosters …

December 9, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

The opening chapter (plus synopsis) of one of my unpublished novels was long listed in a major competition. How exciting…

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Easy steps to stronger sentences

November 28, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

Words of wisdom from Harry Bingham at Jericho Writers. If you haven’t signed up for their newsletter at least, or…

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Real life and books

November 27, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

This morning I was listening to Woman’s Hour on BBC 4 as I drove around walking the dog – see…

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Widen your book’s distribution Part 2 Goodreads

November 17, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

Ok, so Goodreads isn’t a publishing platform but it’s a huge marketing one, and as I can’t start uploading my…

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Widening your book’s distribution

November 15, 2020 cheryl Leave a comment

As someone not keen on technology, I’ve been putting off thinking about how to maximise the reach of my books,…

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