Book Title: The Truth About Elves Author: Ekta R Garg Publication: 2021 Publication House: Atmosphere Press I finished reading this delightful book a couple of days ago and, given that it has Christmas elves in it, I thought I might review it closer to Christmas. But then I figured ‘why […]
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I am currently reading What I Did by Kayla Krantz. You will get a review when I finally finish it (long story – but hard to concentrate on reading when you have concussion) but I couldn’t wait that long to give you guys some insight into this wonderful book. So […]
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I love National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Every November writers worldwide are encouraged to get 50,000 words of a writing project done. No need to worry about editing or getting it exactly right — just get it done! This year is my third NaNoWriMo. 2017 – saw Passage to […]
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Right – changed my mind again about chapter names. So much of the beginning of the novel happens in January 1883. But it looks really stupid calling four chapters ‘Chapter whatever – January 1883’. So, after all that, I’ve gone back to simply Chapter One, Chapter Two etc. And of […]
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Yep. We’ve all done it. Made New Year’s resolutions, only to break them. This year, however, I’m determined not to do that. Here’s the thing: I really want to get more regular with my blog (one of last year’s resolutions that I broke) AND I want to get my novel […]
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I’m super busy at the moment writing for three different projects. One, my novel, is approaching the stage where I am going to need an editor. So I’ve started looking. Where do I start? With what I know and trust is the answer. I know both Cayce Berryman and Michelle […]
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I love genealogy. It delivers me history and plots all in the one package. The novel that I am working on (in between short stories that is) is the fictionalised story of one of my ancestor couples. Note I said fictionalised. Part of that fictionalisation is name changes. I have […]
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I haven’t done a blog post for a while so I thought I had best get onto it. Not 100% thought (don’t you love a cold) so I thought I would just do one of those posts that are based on sharing posts and information on similar topics. So I went […]
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Okay – so you’ve gone through the blood, sweat and tears of writing and editing your novel. And now you have to get people to read it, be they a publisher or, hopefully, the reading public. So how do you sell your baby in a few words? I am not […]
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