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Everything You Wanted To Know About Book Sales

Great article currently doing the rounds, worth reading:

Everything You Wanted To Know About Book Sales But Were Too Afraid To Ask

Yes, I’ve been internet-dead for the last two months. Sorry about that. I’ve pretty much been life-dead too, so you know. Rah? O:)

Made It Monday: Scrap Bunnies :o)

Scrap bunny! For sale, incidentally, if you’re in the market. See www.cobbettandpaws.com, orhttps://www.etsy.com/au/shop/CobbettAndPaws. The bunny listings aren’t up yet, but they will be in the next 48 hours

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This Video Gives Me Utter Chills EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

The Number 1 Biggest Worldbuilding Mistake You Might Be Making

[View the story “A Quick Note On Scale” on Storify]

Made-It Monday: Pumpkins in Progress

This may or may not be for a Thing-In-Progress. I admit to nothing. O:)

Teddy’s Story Joint

It’s pretty normal to worry as a beginning writer that someone is going to steal your idea. What you eventually realise though is that it doesn’t matter, because we’re all using like the same five (nine, twelve, three, one – pick your critical theory) ideas anyway. Case in point:

Weekly Book Pic: Most Beloved

Made It Monday: Arty Pics

Look! I did actually make a genuine arty thing this week! There are a few errors because I couldn’t be bothered doing pencil guidelines or anything, and there are a few places that need more detail, but still. Rah! Art!

Dear Amy: In Which I Berate Myself Politely

Dear Amy,

Here’s the thing. You’ve been waffling back and forth over this thing called writing for a long time now, and really, we’ve all had just about enough. You say you want this, that it’s a life ambition, a goal, whatever; you say that it’s impossible to achieve with everything else you have going on in your life.

You’ve read the advice. You’ve read the books, the courses, the blog posts, the articles: Writers write. Whether they feel like it or not, whether they’re feeling inspired or...

Dear Amy: The Preamble

Liana Brooks, twin of my soul if not my actual blood, and I email each other quite a lot. Actually truth be told, I email her more than she emails me, because she is the kind of creature who will send considered emails at sustainable intervals, or else will email me the day’s writing for safekeeping, where as I am the kind of creature who will fire off seven single-sentence emails to the same person in under and hour. Oops. O:) Somewhere in the midst of all of this crazy, an email genre I lik...