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Lynette Benton Interviews Stuart Aken about Breaking Faith

Image by stuartaken via FlickrLynette has posted an interesting interview with me on her own blog. It's a short piece on my novel, Breaking Faith.

Wordle Image of Blog

 You can produce an image of any text with this useful website - use the link from the title of this post. It has a practical use;  it will make those words that you use most in the piece larger than the others, so it's an interesting way of determining whether you're over-using certain words.

Interview with Danielle Thorn, Author

Danielle Thorne freelanced for online and print magazines from 1998 through 2001, adding reviewing and editing to her resume. She is the author of THE PRIVATEER, a 1729 historical about British privateering in the Caribbean and TURTLE SOUP, a sweet contemporary romance set between Atlanta and St. Thomas. Her new shipwreck adventure, BY HEART AND COMPASS, is available now. Her first Jane Austen-inspired Regency, JOSETTE, has been contracted by Whimsical Publications for Winter 2010.Other work ...

You Gotta Read Reviews

You Gotta Read Reviews is a blog running a monthly contest on the popularity of books based on their covers and the short blurb accompanying them. Out of interest, I've entered the contest this month. Voting begins today. You might like to vote for my book, Breaking Faith. Alternatively, you might find one of the other entries attractive or may even want to enter your own. If you decide to do that, let me know, via the comments space, and we might all vote for each other or even have our own ...

Claude Bouchard Interview

Claude was born in Montreal, Canada, where he still resides with his spouse, Joanne as well as the rulers of the household, Krystalle and Midnight, their cats. He completed his studies in human resources, accounting and management at McGill University and worked in various management capacities in the fields of HR and finance for a handful of firms for too many years.
His first stab at writing was in 1995, the result being his first novel, Vigilante. This was subsequently followed by The...

EVERYONE NEEDS AN EDITOR

Stolen, with permission, from FFW SMALL MARKETS, a weekly newsletter edited by Hope Clark.Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010Editor: C. Hope Clark
Mailto: Hope@FundsforWriters.com
Web Site: www.fundsforwriters.com
The best best-selling authors sound like crap before an
editor gets his hands on the manuscript.Well, maybe not crap, but the work is still rough - rough
enough for the publisher to want it touched up, chapters

Linda Swift, Author, Interviewed

At ten, Linda Swift wrote her first poems and a play. She wrote her first romance novel at sixteen. Then life happened. She married, had a son and daughter, went to college and began a teaching career. . . in that order.
Resuming her poetry writing, she attended the Jesse Stuart Creative Writing Workshop and, for the first time, met other serious authors. This led to writing short stories and articles, and being published.
Her dream, however, was to write books. She wrote a second novel, and...

The Last Early Rising as Published in Scribble

I threatened to start a series on magazines that take fiction writing, so here goes. I'm introducing the first along with a sample of the stories they take; one of my own from 2005, as I own copyright and don't have to ask permission.Scribble is a small press magazine taking short stories from writers of all ability levels from the absolute newbie to the most professional. Publishing stories up to 3,000 words in length, they will consider almost all topics and genres. The tendency is for the...

Scottish writer, Kristal McKerrington, Interviewed.

Image by stuartaken via Flickr
Kristal McKerrington is a 20 year old writer from Scotland UK, who loves Tetley Tea, Mochas, Lattés andMcDonalds. She's a writer who wants to break new ground in writing. 
Hello,Am so glad to be here today and I would like to thank Stuart Aken for giving me the time on his wonderful blog. Currently we are getting ready for two releases of mine at XOXO Publishing. One is 'Freedom Is Earned' a story about a young woman's struggle to find out who tried   to kill her...

Competitions and Magazines

I am intending an expansion of the competition details under the 'Competitions' tab. This will be an organic and irregular update, which I'll flag each time I add something new. So, if you're into contests with your writing, keep an eye out for this source of news of opportunities.
Magazines: I'm also intending to set up a new tab, labelled 'Magazines' where I will give details of those magazines which provide outlets for fiction, of any sort. So, if you're a magazine editor and would like to ...