With all the noise and bickering of 2016, and most of it played out on social media, it was gorgeous to hear from one of my fellow Romance Writers of Australia, Lesley Ann Acton, asking if she could promote everyone on her Facebook page, as a positive gesture to finish up the year. Loads of […]
Pen vs Keyboard – Brain Wars (or what happens in your brain when you write by hand)
What differences does it make in your brain if you write with a pen or type on a keyboard? Lots of writers believe that their creative juices flow more freely when they take to handwriting. I happen to be one of them. But is there any evidence that this is so? I wanted to know, […]
Squee!! New Covers!!
I’ve recently been doing a little bit of title-and-cover updating for my Perth Girls series. While I liked my titles and covers, I wasn’t sure they properly conveyed the intent of the series, that it was a romance series, and that it was about individual relationships. I also updated blurbs and meta-data, so that searching […]
A Labour of Love
Whoever it was who said writing a romance novel is easy needs to spend a week in my shoes. I am around 5000 words (two writing days) away from penning the final words in The Defiant One – the second book in my Perth Girls series. Its been a mission. I’ve had to dig deep, […]
Setting Goals and Kicking Butt – the ancient Japanese art of Segokibu.
Like every other worthwhile endeavour, writing a book takes effort. Writing a whole bunch of books takes a whole bunch of effort. Writing a shitload of books… well, you get the picture. Building a career as a bankable author is a daunting task. Ask any bankable author. Apart from the very rare overnight sensation (EL […]
Each one of you is a Little Piece of Me…
They say you put a little piece of yourself into every story you write. With my Perth Girls series, each of the three heroines definitely got a piece of me, or should I say, I gave them a piece. They are my ‘write what you know’ stories, so it made sense to give those […]
Finding Time to Write
You’re probably a busy person. We all are these days. So much stuff needs to happen in such a short period of time – it’s easy to blink and find that it’s already tomorrow, and all your plans for today have gone bye-bye. Some experts say you should ‘write every day’. Others say you shouldn’t […]
How Changing Perspective can Improve Your Story
While editing the manuscript for Hidden Duchess, I’ve made the conscious decision to change a couple of chapters from one character’s perspective to another. Today, I’m explaining why I would go to all that trouble – and why writers should be looking at their stories from different angles, to give their readers the very best experience […]
Too Many Stories
What do you do when you have a thousand different stories swirling around in your head? I’m asking, because its a problem I struggle with all the time – I have a lovely novel all lined up in my head, and I’ll be writing along merrily, then another idea will swamp me. Then another. Then […]
Book Reviews – May 2016
I’ve missed a few months of book reviews – not that I haven’t been reading books, its more that I’ve been too slack to write the reviews! Actually, I think I’ve probably posted a few on Amazon and Goodreads in the past few months, but here are three that I definitely read in May: If […]