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May 4, 2020
Slipped resolutions! Get your writing back on track – Ep 24 FREE podcast for writers
Oh my! We begin with a different song. And it’s a real treat. I promise. Why did we begin with a different song? Because we’re talking about routines that have gone awry. Specifically, writing routines. Resolutions that seemed possible and exciting and shiny and life-changing… then didn’t work out. And how to change things up […]
May 1, 2020
April 30, 2020
All about ghostwriting and its fringes, including book packagers – Ep 23 FREE podcast for writers
In the last episode, we discussed how to make a writing career out of your special expertise and knowledge. This time we turn to another kind of writing career – writing secretly as other people. Aka ghostwriting. Also, writing for book packagers, which is a junior form of ghostwriting. You might already know I have […]
April 29, 2020
Make a writing career out of your hobby or day job – Ep 22 FREE podcast for writers
Write what you know. While I’d disagree that this is an absolute rule (let’s not get into that right now), it is nevertheless a sound strategy for developing a writing career. If you’re in a niche that other people want to read about, you might find a ready audience. Your hobby could get you a […]
April 26, 2020
How to read like a writer – Ep21 FREE podcast for writers
How do you ‘read like a writer’? What do you look for? How can you learn to write from the books you read? Does it matter if you’re a slow reader? That’s what we’re discussing in today’s episode. Asking the questions is independent bookseller Peter Snell. Answering them is me! Stream from the widget below […]
April 23, 2020
20-ish FAQs about being a writer – Ep20 FREE podcast for writers
Twas our twentieth show! So we decided that was a magic number, hence this version of Twenty Questions. These are the questions writers are most often asked. Some are impossible to answer, and my co-host Peter Snell thought long and hard to make sure he asked them, to cause me maximum mumbling and stammering and […]
April 22, 2020
All about blogging and social media for authors – Ep19 FREE podcast for writers
How can authors use blogging and social media effectively? How should they get started? How much time does it take to build an audience? Will you like it?! That’s what we’re talking about this episode. A caveat! These shows are a few years old now. We recorded this episode in 2015. Some of the platforms […]
April 19, 2020
How to un-self-publish: can you remove a book from self-published channels if you want to do something else with it?
I’ve had this question: Can I free my book from Amazon CreateSpace? I want to seek a traditional deal. I published my first book a few years ago through CreateSpace. It’s a prelude to the one I’m now writing, and I am trying to find a publisher. Is there any way to free it from […]
April 17, 2020
How to write sparkling, meaningful dialogue – Ep18 FREE podcast for writers
Dialogue is an art in itself. It’s much more than characters talking to each other. Great dialogue can convey subtext, hidden agendas, freudian slips, personality, the author’s themes. It gives the reader the sense of watching a story’s characters in real time, witnessing them with our own eyes. But how do we get all that […]
April 14, 2020
We’ll make you believe the unbelievable – writing fiction that falls between fantasy and reality: an interview with Margarita Montimore @damiella
All writers are in the business of make-believe, from fantasy and science fiction to dead-straight factual. And then there’s the fiction that likes to play between the two, explore the strange, bend the possible (here’s my own manifesto on that). When I came across Margarita Montimore’s debut novel The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart (Gollancz) […]
