The Plague: Journey to a Book #2 – A Second Draft & Seeking Feedback
In my last post, I wrote about how I smashed out a first draft of my novel, (working title The Plague) in just 4…
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Musings on the writing process and the writing life, from myself and other authors.
How Writers Earn Money #2: Royalties
Welcome to the second post in my series How Writers Earn Money, sharing my own stories and those of other writers about how they manage…
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How To Become a Writer: Louise Allan
How to Become a Writer is a series about the many and varied steps (and missteps) people take on the way to writing and publishing a book….
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How Writers Earn Money #1: Advances
Welcome to the first post in my new series How Writers Earn Money, an area shrouded in mystery! I’ll be sharing my own…
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How Writers Earn Money
Welcome to the first post in my new series: How Writers Earn Money. When I told a writing friend my idea, he said…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #7: Social Media
Do authors need to be on social media? Publishers say yes, but when it comes to actual data that proves it sells books,…
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How to Become a Writer: Emma Viskic
How to Become a Writer is a series about the many and varied steps (and missteps) people take on the way to writing and publishing a…
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How Much Do Writers Earn #2
Image from gregferro.com My posts on author earnings are among the most popular on my blog, showing there is a great deal of…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings
Image: Stella Prize Winners Clare Wright & Emily Bitto, feeling pretty darn good! Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #5: Festivals
This is the fifth part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…
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