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A world in a word – 3 ways your vocabulary can increase reader belief

I had an interesting comment from a reader of my novel Lifeform Three. She was curious that I’d described a horse’s coat as ‘fur’. Surely the more usual term, she said, is ‘hair’. She’s not wrong. ‘This might worry readers,’ she went on, ‘who will think you don’t know one end of a horse from […]

How I made my writing career – writing coach, novelist and memoirist Gina Troisi @Troisi_Gina

How do you get a career working with words? We all find our own routes. In this occasional series, I’m interviewing people who’ve made writing the centre of their life and now have a distinguished publishing reputation. Today: Gina Troisi, who has award nominations, writer-in-residence posts and is now about to release a memoir, The […]

Another lockdown birthday, armed with antibodies, praise from Foreword Reviews...

Another lockdown birthday; the world is changing again; courses to boost your writing; meet photographer Fran Monks, master of the defining moment; praise for Ever Rest from Foreword Reviews; a little horse https://mailchi.mp/437c8e4cfe45/anoth...

“Ever Rest” by Roz Morris

Originally posted on Martha's Writing Blog:
Book Review I just finished reading Ever Rest, Roz Morris’ new novel due out June 3, 2021 (available for preorder). A fantastic read! Below is my Goodreads review of this literary book club treat. Roz is the author of two previous novels — My Memories of a Future…

I wrote a trauma recovery memoir in lockdown – what now?

This email just arrived. I have completed a manuscript about my childhood trauma and how it shaped my life, to tell my truth, to finally heal and put it behind me. I need to know if it is good enough to publish and am therefore seeking an editor who can proofread and correct mistakes. Has […]

How to organise events for selling your books – Ep49 FREE podcast for writers

I’d never have believed, when we recorded this episode in October 2015, that its subject would seem like a relic of a bygone age. It certainly felt bygone in the depths of lockdown winter. Now, as the sky brightens in the second week of March 2021, we might at some point be able to hold […]

Shades of the truth – talking memoir and fiction-writing with Scott Gould @Scott_Gould

Embrace cliches Don’t write what you know. That’s two pieces of writing advice you won’t see everywhere. They are from Scott Gould, award-winning short story writer and novelist. Scott has now crossed into memoir with Things That Crash, Things That Fly, which chronicles the startling and sudden break-up of his marriage. How was it, I […]

A distanced funeral, a thrilling box...

... Ever Rest ready to order, the world gets so big, a little horse.
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‘I have a flash fiction mind’ – interview with Jayne Martin @jayne_martin

Jayne Martin has an impressive string of accolades for her flash fiction, especially her recent collection Tender Cuts. Before that, she had a distinguished career writing TV drama and movies. We got together to talk the long and short of writing. Roz Across all those different continents of work, short and long, do you have […]

Your first pages – 5 more book openings critiqued by a literary agent, YA author @AJ_Dickenson (and me!) at @Litopia

I’ve just guested again at Litopia, the online writers’ colony and community. Each week they have a YouTube show, Pop-Up Submissions, where five manuscripts are read and critiqued live on air by literary agent Peter Cox @agentpete and a guest, or sometimes two (this time we had longtime Litopia member and YA author Andy Dickenson […]