Mandy Eve-Barnett's Blog, page 10

Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Reviews – Life Blood for Authors

As readers we all love books and the stories they contain. Whether we have a favourite genre, or read multiple, the joy of immersing into other worlds, characters and narratives is the same. Many of you know I read multiple …

Continue reading

Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Writing Deadlines Good, or Bad?

Many of us have been scrambling to meet our November writing challenge deadline, no matter which challenge platform we participated on, 30th November is the completion date. There are two schools of thought about writing deadlines: a) an excellent resource …

Continue reading

Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Spicy Writing and Inspirational Images

Firstly, thanks for dropping by and secondly, apologies for my tardiness, I am on the last week of a writing challenge and tantalizing close to achieving the goal of (at least) fifty-thousand words written within the month of November. For …

Continue reading

Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – I Love to Write Day

Although, I’ve missed this celebratory day by nearly a week, it is still nice to think that we writers have our own day. You can visit the website for all the details. As you would have seen from my Tuesday …

Continue reading

Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – The Person Behind the Writing

I am thrilled to have been given the chance to talk about my writing this past week. Many readers want to get to know the person behind the stories, and how those narratives are created, so here is your chance. …

Continue reading

Creative Edge Author Interview – Zane Carson Carruth

What drew you to children’s literature in particular?The decision to pen a children’s book came by accident. The book wrote itself.One afternoon I picked up a spiral notebook and started writing a story about a little fairy to entertain myself.  …

Continue reading

Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – National Young Readers Day

National Young Readers Day is celebrated during National Young Readers Week on the second Tuesday in November every year. The event’s roots come from the “BOOK IT!” program, created by Pizza Hut in 1984 after an initiative created by Ronald Reagan to remind …

Continue reading

Creative Edge Press Release – D.C. Gomez

Monday Motivation 52 Inspirational quotes to start your week right Message from DC Gomez: I’m doing a happy dance! After months of studying, analyzing and planning, I did it. I hit the launch button and my first Kickstarter campaign was …

Continue reading

Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Recording for The RV Book Fair & Article

I was happy to be part of a discussion on historical and romance fiction this week, for The RV Book Fair. The event will be online between 16th to 23rd November. My panel included our exceptional host, Lucia Matuonto donnagoodacreauthor …

Continue reading

Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – To NaNoWriMo or Not?

Many of us are in a quandary over whether to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year, or not. After reading all the documentation, I have decided to enter only a manual word count figure, (the same as every …

Continue reading