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June 11, 2018
How To Theme: Chapter Eight – Why Stories? Recognising Patterns
Welcome to How To Theme, chapters posting Tuesday/Thursday weekly, available now in print, in ebook, and on Amazon. All chapters are also up on Patreon, including the bonus information on genre-specific themes that’s in the final book, but won’t be appearing here on the blog.
Okay, so now you know how to find the theme of any story, and you’re hopefully not quite so terrified of all this theme bizzo. There’s still one thing I might need to convince you of though: Why does this actua...
Made It Monday: BOOK COVER!!
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome! 
June 7, 2018
BABY SEA OTTERS FLOAT
So, one of the kids said something about, I don’t know, whales or something the other day. Maybe there were manta rays on Octonauts, actually, and I pulled up a video on YouTube. I think that’s how this story starts. And then, in the murky middle, there was a click spree, where the kids were like CUTE ANIMAL IN SIDEBAR, WATCH THAT VIDEO MUM, and then, before I knew it, I’d come to the end of the story and found THIS:
I did not realise that baby sea otters floated, and that their mothers wrap...
June 6, 2018
How To Theme: Chapter 7 – Theme + You Part 2
Welcome to How To Theme, chapters posting Tuesday/Thursday weekly, available now in print, in ebook, and on Amazon. All chapters are also up on Patreon, including the bonus information on genre-specific themes that’s in the final book, but won’t be appearing here on the blog.
CHAPTER SEVEN PART TWO
FOR THE PANSTERS*
* So called because pantsers write ‘by the seat of their pants’, making it up as they go along, without an outline or a specific plan.
Pansters, exploratory writers, writers-i...
June 5, 2018
$2 Shipping On All Titles In Australia!
Just a quick update to let you know that due to some changes with the printers etc, I can now offer shipping for ONLY $2 ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA ON ALL INKPRINT TITLES!!! That’s all my books, and most of Liana Brooks’s as well! Whoa! Super excite.
I’ve updated the prices on the Australian Print Titles page to reflect this, and at some point in the next couple of months I’ll add direct-buy links on all the individual book pages too.
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June 4, 2018
How To Theme: Chapter 7 – Theme + You Part 1
Welcome to How To Theme, chapters posting Tuesday/Thursday weekly, available now in print, in ebook, and on Amazon. All chapters are also up on Patreon, including the bonus information on genre-specific themes that’s in the final book, but won’t be appearing here on the blog.
So you’re a writer, or a student who has to write a story for school or some such, and now you have an understanding of how theme works in other people’s work and why it’s important… but you’re not...
June 3, 2018
Made It Monday + SANCTUARY 3 RELEASE DATE
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
May 31, 2018
Mermaid, Maidmer: AKA, The Gif of My LIFE
I… I just… This is LIFE.
Made it in time for #mermay! #mermay2018 pic.twitter.com/2Av5ow5TQn
— Inbal Breda (@GreyAnnis) May 26, 2018
If you’re reading this via email or something, you MUST click through to see the gif in the link. Inbal Breda made this amazing gif of a mermaid/maidmer – in half the pic, it’s a human top half + fish lower half, and then the creature jumps out of the water and it’s a fish top half + human lower half and OH MY GOODNESS I DID NOT KNOW HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS THI...
May 30, 2018
How To Theme: Chapter Six – Sub-themes
Welcome to How To Theme, chapters posting Tuesday/Thursday weekly, available now in print, in ebook, and on Amazon. All chapters are also up on Patreon, including the bonus information on genre-specific themes that’s in the final book, but won’t be appearing here on the blog.
Alright, you’ve got your head around the idea of a theme; now it’s time to talk sub-themes. As you’ll have noticed if you’ve been paying attention (which, if you’re not, why are you reading this book right n...
May 29, 2018
Woo! Early Release for How To Theme!
If you’ve been following along with How To Theme as it posts Tuesday/Thursday on the blog, you’ll know that it had an original release date of June 28/29. WELL. I HAVE EXCELLENT NEWS.
How To Theme has a NEW release date, and it’s THIS WEEK!!
If you’re an Amazon shopper (print and ebook), you’ll see it available on the 1st of June. Ebooks in other venues will be available on June 3, and print will be available June 1 on Inkprint, or, uh, soon? ish? everywhere else? Not sure yet how long it tak...
