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May 15, 2012
Need a hand to get yourself in front of an audience to promote your book?
The importance of actually getting in front of an audience cannot be underestimated. One of the most effective ways to get your message across is to undertake readings at as many different locations and venues as possible. Opportunities exist at local bookshops, reading groups and libraries.
If possible, try to contact as many of these groups in person with a copy of your book, the promotional flyer and any reviews you have had. Follow up with a letter to say that you would be willing to under...
May 14, 2012
“Fecund” is The Weekly Word – how can you use this word?
Welcome to this weeks Weekly Word, which is ‘FECUND’. I’d like to challenge you to find anunusual, imaginative oraccurate usage of the word in a single sentence or a paragraph.
This weeks word is FECUND,it is an adjective pronounced’fek-und’
Fecund means producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile; intellectually creative.
Synonyms include fertile, fruitful, rich, productive, prolific,abundant, fat, luxurious, lush.
Examples of the wordFECUND
Women at are the...
May 10, 2012
Friday Fictioneer’s – Painting Creation
This post is for the weekly challenge set by Madison Woods called Friday Fictioneers. The idea is that you submit a 100 word flash fiction story associated with the picture challenge added the previous Wednesday. You can find out more, and see the picture, on Madison’s Blog here:http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/moon-and-sky/
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Her students had departed; fearing the coming rain would damage hours of canvas w...
The Thursday Throng author interview with Jenny Rossiter, author of ‘The Masks that Men Wear’
‘Throng’ isn.- A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
Welcome to The Thursday Throngand this week I’d like to welcome Jenny Rossiter, the author of ‘The Masks that Men Wear’.
It’scalled The Thursday Throng in honour of the throng that waits eagerly outside the book store when a new author is doing a book signing event or appearance. On this website it takes the form of a ‘Meet the Author‘ online event with some information about...
May 9, 2012
What is the Legal Deposit Scheme and why is it important?
Publishers and distributors in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland have a legal obligation to send one copy of each of their printed publications to the Legal Deposit Office of the British Library within one month of publication. They are also encouraged to send a copy to each of the other Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK at:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
University Library, Cambridge
National Library of Scotland
Library of Trinity College, Dublin
National Library of Wales
The right of the B...
May 8, 2012
I am an author: insight, awareness and admitting the reality
I can now understand the truth of the statement ‘when the pupil is ready, the teacher will come‘, as this is the experience I have having over the last few weeks and the pace is quickening! It has also been the case that those ‘teachers’ have not necessarily been what I would either have expected or wanted had I asked for them; but from each one I have learnt an important lesson.
In some cases the lessons have been eminently practical and these have consisted of ‘how to do …… x, y or z’; in ot...
May 7, 2012
“Precocious” is The Weekly Word – let’s see what interesting uses we can make of our wonderful language
Welcome to this weeks Weekly Word. It’s a little on the late side today because we have a bank holiday here in the UK and I have had a lovely long lie-in and lazy morning.
The aim of the exercise is to see what readers and authors can come up with in the way of an unusual, imaginative or correct usage of the weekly word in a single sentence or a paragraph.
The purpose of these posts is to expand the language that we, as writers, use in our prose and poetry, and to find more descriptive ways to...
May 4, 2012
Friday Fictioneer’s – a wall to keep a secret
This post is for the weekly challenge set by Madison Woods called Friday Fictioneers. The idea is that you submit a 100 word flash fiction story that is associated with the picture challenge added the previous Wednesday. You can find out more, and see the picture, on Madison’s Blog here:http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/old-wallpaper/
The wall yielded to the hammer; the blows rained down by her frustration were frantic and angry venting her fury at a situation she had found herse...
May 3, 2012
The Thursday Throng – Meeting Anne Orchard, Founder of Families Facing Cancer
‘Throng’ isn.- A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
Welcome to The Thursday Throngin honour of the throng that waits eagerly outside the book store when a new author is doing a book signing event or appearance.
This takes the form of a ‘Meet the Author‘ online event with some information about our author’s latest book and an interview. If you would like to take part in the Thursday Throng then why notemail meto find out more.
If...
May 2, 2012
Lessons Learned in April – on place, writing and change
April 2012 has marked a sea change in the way I view myself and my place in the world. At the beginning of this year I vowed to make a change, I even did it publicly on my blog but failed to actually do anything about it until mid March when I wrote a post titled The Art of Reinvention or how to start again! This is where the story of lessons learned in April really starts.
So, what did I learn in April?
Some of it was highly practical; some of it has been a profound journey into rediscovering...
