Alison and Morgen Bailey
Writers can’t help talking about writing, especially when they meet other writers. When I was invited by Morgen Bailey to take part in the online Self Pub Fest in January, I enthusiastically said yes!
Self-Pub Fest is a quarterly in person book festival celebrating self-published authors. The online festival via individual hourly Zoom – a new addition – features genre panels with up to six authors in each panel. See the About page for dates and timings of both versions.
In January, I contributed to the crime fiction and historical fiction panels and loved being part of both. My fellow panellists were knowledgeable and very open to sharing their experience and their writing and publishing tips.
Morgen kindly set up a contributor page and posted the video recordings of both panels. And as generously, interviewed me at length about all aspects of writing, the writing life, self-publishing, and marketing. We had fun discussing it all and exchanging ideas – we can both talk for Europe to at least Olympic level!
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/ia0utkB3k9Y
About Morgen Bailey
Based in Buckinghamshire, England, Morgen Bailey (“Morgen with an E”) is a freelance editor, author, tutor, mentor, blogger, podcaster, WI/U3A speaker, competition judge and former Writer’s Forum magazine Competitive Edge columnist. She also runs a free monthly 50-word competition.
As well as full-length and shorter fiction, Morgen’s 40+ books also include writer’s block workbooks, writer’s ideas diaries, and an editing guide.
Morgen has edited over 300 novels, non-fiction books and short stories for publishers and authors directly since 2005.Details and testimonials on https://morgenbailey.com/editor.
She has attended many UK conferences and festivals and has hosted workshops at various venues including NAWG Festival (editing), Troubador’s Self-publishing Conference (competitions and podcasting) and Buckingham U3A (creative writing).
Before moving to Buckinghamshire, Morgen hosted eleven one-day, five/ten-week creative writing courses for Northamptonshire County Council’s Adult Learning sector from 2014-2018.
To help other writers, Morgen recently created a new academy (https://mb-creative-writing-academy.teachable.com) where she hosts live Zoom Q&A sessions, interviews established authors, provides pre-recorded video tutorials, and offers 1:1 mentoring and group workshop sessions.
Like her, her blog, http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com, is consumed by all things literary. Her website is http://morgenbailey.com, and she is ‘morgenwriteruk’ on social media.
- Website: http://morgenbailey.com
- Blog: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/morgenwriteruk
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/morgenwriteruk (profile), http://www.facebook.com/MorgenBaileyAuthor (page)
- Editing and critique: https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/editing-and-critique
- Online courses: https://www.udemy.com/u/morgenbailey
- Morgen’s books: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/books-mine
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MorgenBailey1
I will add that she’s a champion of indie/self-publishing authors and seems to be always on the lookout for new ways to support the community. So, thank you, Morgen!
Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers – INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO, AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO and RETALIO, and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories. Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA, Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.
Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.
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