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November 26, 2019
The Online Novelist: The Three Things You Need
It’s pretty common knowledge that these days, an online presence is a necessity for an author. Online is where billions of people share their lives, do their shopping and spend their leisure time as well as their discretionary income. It’s also well known that authors are chronically time-poor. It takes lots of hours to write […]
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November 2, 2019
Online Novelist
Years ago, I wrote a little book called “The Twelve Trials of Social Media”. I wrote it for small business owners who were overwhelmed by what they needed to do online, to try to simplify the process and make it attainable. Recently I found it again, and read it and, while it is a little […]
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October 26, 2019
Beautiful Creatures – lovely til the end…
So I’ve just finished watching (well, rewatching, I’ve seen it before), the movie Beautiful Creatures. It backdates to 2013, and if it hadn’t been hot on the heels of Twilight and Hunger Games, may very well have made more of a splash – that is, until the last fifteen minutes of storytelling forget about narrative […]
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August 29, 2019
Loosely Based on Fairytales.
When I go looking for the next idea for my Seven Wishes tales, I look to the old Grimm and Andersen fairytales for inspiration, or the Arabian Nights. Those fairytales always have a great story, a hook, and a moral, which makes them ideal for me to riff off. However, turning a fairytale into a […]
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July 7, 2019
There’s a meeting point between Regency romance and fantasy.
Regency romance, since the days of its invention by the amazing Georgette Heyer, is frothy, light and humorous, set in the times of the King Georges of England, and involves feisty, often impoverished damsels and the dukes and earls who love them. Fantasy is big and sprawling and can be anything from elves to robots, […]
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April 20, 2019
Is there such a thing as Too Much Backstory?
Sometimes when you’re reading, your eyes become droopy because its 3am and you have to go to work tomorrow and oh my god I didn’t notice the time and this book is SO GOOD I’ll just sneak in one more chapter… But then there are other times when your eyes get droopy because The Book […]
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December 29, 2018
Welcome to my Universe.
It recently struck me that all of my storylines fit into the one universe, even though they could be anything from time travel to historical romance. The diagram above shows how they all fit in with each other. Amazingly enough, by doing this, I’ve been able to sort out some …
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December 4, 2018
Wanted Movie is Wanting
I just watched the movie Wanted with James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, and Morgan Freeman. And while it was obviously an action movie, with a few awesome unbelievable action sequences (getting the guy into the red Porsche was amazing), at the end of the movie, I was left wanting. I set out …
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September 13, 2018
Supernatural Season 5 Episode 7
The Curious Case of Dean Winchester. I’ve been rewatching Supernatural in the months leading up to the release of Season 14, and I came across this episode yesterday. I really liked it – laugh out loud moments along with some real heart-string tugs. What I did want to talk about …
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Progress…
25K into Slingshot – Nomination and trying to explain Women’s Liberation to a man from the late 1700’s …
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