I am so excited to be able to share with you my very first official publication. It is a piece of flash fiction – only 500 words long – called ‘The Girl in the Mirror’. It has been published by the Australian sci-fi flash fiction site AntipodeanSF. I would love for you to check it … More My First Publication!!!
Welcome to this week’s Writing Tip Wednesday. Today I wanted to focus on the writing process after reading a great post from author Joanne Wadsworth about it. You can read the informative post over at : http://joannewadsworth.com/2013/02/25/the-writing-process-tep-by-step/ The thing about ‘The Writing Process’ is that Everyone’s process is different, just like everyone’s natural voice is … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Writing Process.
In my dreams I’m always standing on the edge, the world below blocked by a thick white mist. Something tugs at my heart and a chorus echoes in my ear, though the words are indistinguishable. Sometimes I have wings and I can go up, though never down. When I soar, the mist parts, but I’m … More Flash Fiction: World Above.
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What’s one of the fastest ways to kill your enthusiasm for your work? Stress about things outside your control. You can’t control whether the publishing industry or reading public is going to prefer novels about vampires attempting to settle into a small country town or post-apocalyptic zombie romantic…
Every Saturday I shine the spotlight on a book by an Australian author I think is worth the read. Today I shine the spotlight on ‘A Confusion Of Princes’ by Garth Nix. Synopsis from Goodreads: A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of Princes is a page-turning thriller, a tender romance, and … More Spotlight Saturday: A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix.
Welcome to Fiction Friday where each week I either bring you a review of a book I have read or I highlight a soon to be released book. This week I am highlighting the soon to be released Requiem by Lauren Oliver, the third book in the Delirium series. I am so excited about this … More Fiction Friday: Requiem by Lauren Oliver.
I recently had to condense my 118,000 word manuscript down to a one page synopsis. I am happy with what I came up with, and hopefully the publisher I submitted it to is as well. So for today’s Writing Tip Wednesday I am going to share with you how I did it: I followed Susan … More Writing Tip Wednesday: One Page Synopsis.
