At the Triskele LitFest
This post was updated in 2021.
It’s generally accepted that it’s easier to market a series of novels than separate, stand-alone ones.
It’s also more fun to write as you can introduce more entanglements and conflicts across several books. 😉
But if you already write a novel series you […]
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First you have an idea, then you think it through, conjure up characters or sometimes try to stop them yammering at you, then you imagine a setting and stir all together into a really sticky problem.
Several months later or sometimes a year later, out comes a typed manuscript. If you’ve […]
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Conflict and emotion are two pillars of fiction writing whether in high-end literary fiction or the most melodramatic genre fiction.
A story will often start by providing the main character with a conflict, be it professional or personal. Sometimes it’s the place where the initial event is set (weather, nighttime, urban, with unlit streets), a […]
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The cheesed off look
If you go through the mainstream system, your agent will sell your book to a publisher (or you may sell it direct). You get an advance of anticipated earnings on the books, then after that amount is ‘earned out’, you start getting royalties.
But apart from the ‘big cheese’ […]
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It’s on grass in summer, it can take place indoors, it’s pacey, full of tension, heart-wrenching, breath snatching and an alternative to football… Yes, reading!
And not just reading, but box sets where you get three or more books packaged together. Not only is this convenient, it will also save you money. So let’s […]
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