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…
Indie Stars Bookshop is live! A collaboration of 15 indie authors, to bring you holiday season gifts for all ages…
The draft is done. Yay! Now it’s time for editing. When I read that someone’s manuscript is with their editor,…
I’d never heard of beta readers when I (poorly) published my first books, a fantasy trilogy. If I had, I…
At the end of this process, I plan on writing one blog post putting together the various things I’ve learned…
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…
Last night we had a zoom meeting of our local novel group, a sub-group of Dean Writers Circle. Right now,…
These six key take-aways for successful blogging came out of a Jane Friedman webinar I attended. I thought it would…