(First Published on my old blog, 28th October 2013) By now I wouldn’t blame you if you were thinking, ‘just how long can she go on about York FoW13? It was a month ago!’ And you’d be right in as far as no amount of blog posts can recapture the experience of going yourself. That…
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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…
Throwback Thursday:Tales of York, Volume One – Lovers, Buddies and the Tragedy Paper.
(First published on my old blog, 7th October 2013) The first seminar I attended at York FoW13, was ‘Lovers and Buddies; 7 steps to friendship and romance’, by Jeremy Sheldon. I’d never been to a writing seminar of any kind before. In fact any seminars I usually attend have horrifying medical slide shows attached, so…
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: Harnessing Demons
(First published on my blog, 3rd October 2013) I’m bouncing this post off of a conversation I had at York. A man I met on the first night was telling me about his crime novel. Naturally I won’t divulge details – for one thing that would be unspeakably rude. For another who wants to be…
Dissecting Dragons – the first Guest Episode
I’ve talked about Dissecting Dragons, the speculative fiction podcast that M.E.Vaughan and I produce a bit before. However on Friday the first episode featuring a guest author was released and I feel it’s worth looking at the process in a bit more detail – not least of which because that episode has probably been our…
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…
Throwback Thursday: Self-Editing and Humble Pie
(First published on my blog 14th August 2013) I can honestly say that I’ve never left a scathing, personal review for a book. (Occasionally I have left a harsher review if I feel the author has cheated the reader or propagated something harmful with their words.) That’s not to say I haven’t thought personal comments, I just…
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…