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Category: My Novels

Posts about my own novels

Story Arcs and the Art of Writing a Page-Turner

Posted on November 7, 2012March 31, 2015 by Annabel Smith

Lately, I’ve become interested in the concept of ‘story arcs’. An arc is essentially, the journey from the opening of a story to…

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Whiskey & Charlie: Journey to a Book (Launch)

Posted on November 1, 2012March 31, 2015 by Annabel Smith

Time-lapse video of theNovember 2012 Australian launch of my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (published in the US as Whiskey & Charlie) at one of…

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Whiskey & Charlie: Journey to a Book (Part 3)

Posted on October 18, 2012March 31, 2015 by Annabel Smith

The story so far… I wrote a book. Some smart people told me how to make it better, and I did. Four years…

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Whiskey & Charlie: Journey to a Book (Part 2)

Posted on October 10, 2012March 31, 2015 by Annabel Smith

At a certain point in the writing of a novel, the time comes to show the work to someone else. It’s a frightening…

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Whiskey & Charlie: Journey to a Book (Part 1)

Posted on October 2, 2012March 31, 2015 by Annabel Smith

What a crazy little thing a book is. It begins as an idea in one person’s mind, and eventually ends up on a…

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Posted on September 19, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

aungkyawthein: The Ark – final image set (Doomsday Bunker project based on a novel called “The Ark” by Annabel Smith.)

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A Bee in My Bonnet or Idioms in Fiction

Posted on July 17, 2012February 23, 2015 by Annabel Smith

Reading the first draft of my new novel The Ark, my friend Robyn brought my attention to my frequent use of idiom. In…

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The Nit Comb or The Importance of Editing

Posted on June 20, 2012February 24, 2015 by Annabel Smith

Last week in The Guardian, Rick Gekoski published an article  on the importance of editing, in response to the revelation that esteemed publisher…

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Editing *sigh*

Posted on March 28, 2012February 24, 2015 by Annabel Smith

I’m currently in the process of editing my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot for publication. It’s always a fascinating process having new eyes reading…

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Remembering How to Write

Posted on July 7, 2011December 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

I wrote my first two novels in longhand, with old-fashioned pencils on scrap paper. But The Arkwas a book of digital communications. It…

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