Rejections: Proof You’re Moving Forward
Last year, I decided I had re-written one of my novels enough times and it was time to take the big, scary next step. Following many edits, re-writes and renamed files, I […]
Category Archives: Writing Process – Submitting
On Submissions :: Acceptance and Holding with a Light Touch
In October 2012, Harper Voyager opened up a submissions portal for 2 weeks, asking for polished, un-agented manuscripts over 75,000 words long. On September 19th, I had just 36,000 edited words, and […]
Short Fiction: Fight Like A Girl
Last year, I submitted a story to Kristell Ink for their anthology Fight Like A Girl; a collection focused on combat in fantasy and science fiction settings, written by women. I can now […]
FC14 Panel: Editing Dreams and Editor Nightmares
Final panel of the final day. After the Worldbuilding workshop, a panel about editing moved into the room. My Notes – The panel discussed the difference between a structural edit […]
WFC Panel: By Any Other Name
Sunday – the final day of WFC. The first panel of the day was “By Any Other Name: What Makes an Author Change Their Byline?” which was confusing as I’d […]
WFC Panel: Not So Secret Agents
Following such an awesome panel on world-building, the agents panel was almost on par. Panellists were: Joshua Bilmes, Meg Davis, Ian Drury, Barry Goldblatt, John Jarrold, Juliet Mushens. My Notes […]
WFC Panel: Covers
The second panel I attended at World Fantasy Convention 2013 was “Should You Always Judge a Book by its Cover” at 10am on Friday. Panellists were: Jim Burns, Les Edwards, […]
A New Perspective on Publishing Credits
When I created this website, I had done a lot of reading around “publishing credits“, and felt the self-inflicted pressure to get myself published, including writing things that I didn’t […]
Returning to Old Works
In the next six months, there are eight competitions that I could submit some part of my novels to. However, each novel can only be submitted to one place at […]
Stereotypes: The Short Story
Whenever I’ve read advice or interviews from published authors, they’ve often begun writing short stories; which they have submitted to magazines. A part of my mind still thinks “that’s what […]
