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February 25, 2015
Guest Post: by featured author Orna Ross
Orna Ross describes herself as a conscious creativist, a term she coined to describe those who apply the creative process to all aspects of life. She writes and publishes novels, poems and the Go Creative! books and is Founder/Director of the not-for-profit, global association for author-publishers, The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). The Bookseller has...
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February 20, 2015
Outside the Box: why flawed characters are utterly compelling
Last week I saw a blog post by S J Huang mourning how writers’ desire to make fictional women somehow unobjectionable can flatten out everything that makes characters the most compelling.’ Warning: this link comes with a language alert. It isn’t helpful that much on-line advice on character development – and this was written by a woman,...
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February 17, 2015
Meet the Author: Joni Rodgers
Born into a family gospel/ bluegrass band, Joni grew up on stage, opening for huge-haired, sequin-bedazzled country-western legends of the 1960s. She has always loved setting words in rows and started seriously writing in the 1980s while living on a fire tower in California’s Trinity Wilderness with her husband. She kept writing for the love of it as...
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February 15, 2015
Jane Davis Reflects on writing An Unknown Woman
In 2013, I made the decision to cut back on paid work and to focus on writing. I got rid of my car. There have been no new clothes, few outings. Living a salary of the level I earned in the late eighties forced me to ask myself the question: How much of what we...
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Jane Davis Reflects on writing An UnKnown Woman
In 2013, I made the decision to cut back on paid work and to focus on writing. I got rid of my car. There have been no new clothes, few outings. Living a similar sized salary to that which I earned in the late eighties forced me to think: How much of what we think...
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February 10, 2015
Meet the Author: Roz Morris
I’m delighted to welcome Roz Morris back to my blog. Roz has published nearly a dozen novels and achieved sales of more than 4 million copies – but nobody saw her name because she was a ghostwriter. She is now proudly self publishing as herself with two acclaimed literary novels My Memories of a Future Life...
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February 3, 2015
Who will buy? Jane Davis ponders ebook pricing
Yesterday I joined a discussion in a forum for a group of self-confessed book lovers. An on-line Book Club, if you like. One member commented that she had noticed a steep hike in the cost of ebooks and didn’t understood the reason for it. Others rushed to agree. Time for a little clarification: (1) Ebooks...
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February 2, 2015
Author Interview: Meet Jessica Bell
Jessica Bell is an Australian novelist, poet, and singer/songwriter/guitarist who lives in Athens, Greece. In fact, the homepage of her website asks the question, ‘Which me would you like to meet?’ In addition to her novels, her poetry collections (including Fabric, which was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in 2012), and her bestselling pocket...
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February 1, 2015
Second Chapter: Books in Boxes
The January VAT hike for digital products has been tough. For writers, there was a stark choice: either take a 17% hit on income or pass the increase onto readers. In search of a way to redress the balance, I didn’t need to go any further than the aisles of my local supermarket – 3...
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January 27, 2015
Meet the author: Peter Best
Today, I’d like to welcome Peter Best to my blog. Peter was born in North Shields in the North East of England at the beginning of the sixties. Although the son of a shipyard worker, he was brought up in a mining community until the age of eight when, for some reason or another,...
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