What are POVs? Point of view (POV) characters are those through whose eyes the story of our novel is told.…
Different writers approach their new work-in-progress in (many) different ways. Approaches tend, however, to fall along a spectrum. At one…
My journey to self-publishing my books tells how I clambered out of the querying trenches into the frightening no-man’s land…
Writing book blurbs is hard. Ask any author pitching to agents on the traditional publishing route, and 99% will tell…
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…
At the end of this process, I plan on writing one blog post putting together the various things I’ve learned…
Likely I should have had a more detailed plan before now, but hey … we’ll get there! But what I’m…
As a homework exercise for Dean Writers Circle, I suggested writing a piece in second person, present tense. Not something…
What made me think about it? This morning I was listening to Woman’s Hour on BBC 4 as I drove…