You might be looking at that deceptively simple title thinking, but everyone can write a sentence. Well, yes, illiteracy aside, everyone probably can. The point is to write a sentence that grips people and makes them want to read on. To write sentences that create sympathy between your audience and your characters. Used correctly…
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Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume one : The Sci-Fi Master Class
(First published on my old blog, 18th October 2013) High time I continued with my York FoW13 chronicles. Only a fairly short one tonight, as this was one seminar where I think you had to be there. Gary Gibson, well known science fiction author of Angel Stations and Stealing Light (amongst others), took the Sci-Fi…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume One – Slushpile hell to Slushpile heaven
(First published on my old blog, 12th October 2013) Right, after my lazy attempt last night, I feel I should deliver some substance today so here is the next installment in my York FoW13 chronicles. This seminar was run by the lovely Julia Churchill and Penny Holroyde (both well known agents). It focused on…
Tales of York, Volume one: A Distinct lack of Brimstone
(First published on my old blog, 4th October 2013) From the title, I’m sure you can guess I’m continuing my York memoirs 😉 In this instance I want to talk about agents. If you read my earlier York post, you’ll know that I was very nervous about going due to my ineptitude at talking about…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York: Volume One – Intimate Strangers
(First published on my old blog 2nd October 2013) I’d hate to give anyone the wrong impression, so I’ll state now that while the title was a pleasing oxymoron for me and apt for this topic, I won’t be covering any erotica today – sorry about that 😉 September 2013 saw the University of York…
Self-Publishing Success with Joanne Phillips
Last month I took part in The Writer’s Workshop Self-Publishing Success course. I have a lot of respect for Writer’s Workshop – they provide advice, resources, help and opportunities for writers from all walks of life. Being part of that community has smoothed my path no end. But even if I were not an active…
Dissecting Dragons – hatching a podcast
Today was an exciting new first as my fellow fantasy author, M. E. Vaughan, and I prepared for the launch of our new podcast. ‘Dissecting Dragons’ is aimed at fans of all forms of speculative fiction – fantasy, sci-fi, horror, dystopian, steam-punk – you name it and we’ll be discussing it. As we are…
Throwback Thursday: A Debut Author’s A B C of Publishing
Whether you want to be published traditionally or not, most of us are interested in what happens when you’ve crossed that fence. There have been some excellent posts on the mechanics of the publishing and I’m certain I can’t do any better. So here for your amusement is a series of observations from my first…