Jo Zebedee's Blog, page 6
April 23, 2018
Onwards!
Yesterday, I resigned from my post as chairperson of Women Aloud NI, a post I’ve been very proud to be in and an organisation I’ve been committed to really since it first came into being. Women Aloud was not my brain child – it was the idea of Jane Talbot who has worked ferociously for […]
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April 20, 2018
Northern Irish SF
A few years ago, I approached the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast, a fantastic resource for the creative community in the city, and asked about running a speculative fiction writing course. This came out of my frustration as a starting-up writer at my inability to find a specialist writing group in Northern Ireland for spec […]
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April 13, 2018
Class of 2011
When I’m talking about writing and career paths and all that there, I often have to give the frustrating answer that I have no answer. That there no longer is an obvious answer, but that being flexible about the means to acheive what you want is a Good Thing. (This is not news to anyone […]
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April 6, 2018
On Tenacity. And agents.
Around two years ago, I wrote this blog: http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/201... In it, I’m resolutely unfazed. (And, no, this blog is not a disguised ‘I got an agent!’ post. Trust me. You won’t miss that one.) In reality, I crawled through most of 2016 with a focus on getting my Abendau commitments done and done well, and […]
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March 29, 2018
On Juggling
I’m a busy person. I’ve always been so. I find it hard to stare into the distance and do nothing. I have multiple work aspects and projects, multiple writing aspects and projects, I like to read, to play games, to stare at funny dog videos. I have a busy brain. Which means multi-tasking and me […]
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March 16, 2018
On Identity
Sometimes my mind decides to think too much about things and this week it’s decided to muse on my writing identity. Part of that musing came from a lovely visit out to Saintfield Library’s reading group, and chatting about my work in general. I can’t remember how the subject came round, but I found myself […]
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March 6, 2018
When KDP goes wrong…
This week, I had great plans. My plans were: reduce Abendau’s Heir to 0.00 for five days To have Sunset over Abendau and Abendau’s Legacy reduced to 99p for seven days To have Inish Carraig reduced to 99p for seven days Now, during those promotional times I had three paid-for-promotion slots booked: on the Monday […]
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March 2, 2018
On rejection, not dejection
A common theme with writers is that of rejection. From those first early days when everything feels like a rejection (and probably is) to being more confident and not getting the outcome we hope for. And people’s ways of dealing with it vary. Some stop submitting, not able to face the steady stream of nos, […]
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March 1, 2018
Man O’War – Dan Jones
One of my sffchronicles muckers has his debut book out today. Happy book birthday, Dan. I have to be honest, I wasn’t sure whether I’d enjoy this one but I really did. Goodreads review below. Good luck with it, Dan! Very nice debut from Dan Jones, with Snowbooks. Fishing late at night a trawlerman discovers […]
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February 25, 2018
Shiny and new!
Last week, I got the news that my long-term web hosting was coming to an end. This was something I’d been expecting and I was ready to make the move to hosting this site myself – although actually getting to grips with it was a different thing! This week, I’ve managed to learn about named […]
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