No novel writer likes doing the synopsis, a tool for planning and marketing their work. When you’ve written 100,000 words of carefully crafted prose, it’s a bit of a sweat to distil it down to a couple of pages. But it does concentrate the mind…
From the advice I’ve been given or read, the essentials […]
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I’ve just read Jayne Ann Krentz’s Sizzle and Burn which I found on the local library shelves by accident.
The female protagonist, Raine, is cut in a different mould to many other heroines – she’s tall, intelligent and independent, but her character avoids suffering from ‘goodgirlitis’. Love interest Zack Jones is tough, sel-assured and […]
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The Romantic Novelists’ Association had its spring meeting today and speaker Adèle Geras gave a witty and down to earth account of how she got into being a published author. Apart from over 95 children’s books, she has produced four novels for adults, including Facing the Light.
Tea and biscuits afterwards, plus excellent conversation, networking […]
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If you want to read about e-publishing and the effect of Apple’s iPad, I recommend you read Danuta Kean’s article here on the London Book Fair website
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I think I’m getting the hang of this WordPress blog (Okay, I hear the experts and cynics laughing, but at least I’m trying…).
I’ve created a new page today called ‘Writing and publishing books’ which lists some of the books I’ve found useful so far in my novel writing. Just click at the top right […]
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