Dear 2013, You’ve been a fun, inspiring and challenging year. I’ve had moments where I felt on top of the world, and I’ve cried more than I have in prior years put together. Before you leave, here’s what we did …
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 never heard the word “byline” before. Thankfully, the blurb made …
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 Again, I wrote a lot of notes on this panel, …
Thoughts from a Writing Workshop
At the beginning the month I attended a Novel in a Day workshop run by Victoria Connelly. I’d really recommend it, because despite owning about 25 “how to write books”, I still learned a lot. We did some practical exercises, …
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 really enjoy. Aside from the short pieces I’ve attempted to …
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 a time. For someone who only has two finished drafts …