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How to deal with critiques and editorial feedback 25 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Whether you’re a first-time writer, indie or traditional, it’s always a nervous moment when editorial feedback arrives from an agent or editor. Here’s what to expect and how to cope. There will be cha...
Reincarnation, future lives and ghostwriting – a couple of guest apparitions 23 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
I’ve got a couple of slightly apparitional guest spots around the web today. I’m at Candace Austin’s Tumblr blog, Past Life Ponderings. Her novel is about past lives and she collects other authors who...
‘Follow where the music leads’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, DM Jarrett 21 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
My guest this week sees his novel as a fantasy action movie in his head. He says his musical choices were long favourites before he drew on them to create a fast-paced adventure story on a planet far ...
Double trouble: two authors in the house 19 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
The other day Porter Anderson at Writer Unboxed examined the popular notion of the lonely writer hammering out a novel in solitude. It provoked some interesting discussions about the way we do our wor...
‘Broken atmospheres and clashes of sensation’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, JJ Marsh 14 Aug 2013 | 10:46 am
I’m rather fond of Jan Garbarek and Aphex Twin, and I’m delighted to see them working their influences on my guest this week. A crime novelist, she gathers soundtracks to make sure her stories stay tr...
Night music for writers: special at the Edinburgh ebook festival 13 Aug 2013 | 01:03 pm
Wherever you are, you can be at the Edinburgh ebook festival. It’s a two-week programme of online bookish events starting at 11am every morning with a short story and rolling on until 11pm with reflec...
What deals will publishers offer in five years’ time? 12 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
All the scribbling world is going indie. New, unpublished writers are, to establish themselves – even if they’re agented. And experienced, well-regarded authors are leaving their imprints – either bei...
‘Heat-baked lawns… the slap of flip-flops on asphalt’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, Isabel Ashdown 7 Aug 2013 | 12:40 pm
The heatwave may have eased for now, but it burns on in this week’s post – the soundtrack behind a story about a scandal on the Isle of Wight in 1976. Its author says her novels grow from ideas that t...
I’ve started my novel – is it too late to write a plan? 4 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I’ve had this very good question from Alison Strachan, who tweets as @Writingmytruth What happens when you realise half way through writing that you needed to plan more? There’s a story I tell in Na...
NaNoWriMo prep: generate your novel from characters – post at Multi-story 1 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
It’ll soon be Christmas. No, come back. Even sooner, it will be NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month). Okay, that’s not until November, but many serious NaNo-ers will be starting to prepare in the...
