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July 5, 2021

Becoming a Writer: The Livejournal Days

This project keeps making me reflect on who I am and how I got here. Maybe it’s seeing Shifting Sands through multiple perspectives? Or…

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June 21, 2021

Burning Books and Scandal for Sales: Some rambling thoughts

The new wave of Shifting Sands is out! You can find it here under the Shifting Sands tab, or sign up for each wave…

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May 31, 2021

Social Media and Authors: Do we actually like this?

Hi everyone, how’s it going? I’m having one of those semi-overwhelming weeks where many big things are coming together at once – I’m moving…

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May 17, 2021

Shifting Sands Update: May 2021

So, it’s been a while since the big Shifting Sands roadblock happened, and all of a sudden there’s only a month to go before…

Kindle Vella: A new publishing path authors?
April 19, 2021

Kindle Vella: A new publishing path authors?

Hey all! Welcome to the first blog post on a new fortnightly cycle. I’ve been meaning to make the switch for a while –…

Cost of Self-Publishing
April 5, 2021

The Cost of Self-Publishing: Can anyone really write a book?

Okay, so I know I’m meant to be continuing on with the Lessons series – and I will! – but recently I’ve been thinking…

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March 29, 2021

Showing My Work: A March Update

The start of 2021 has been a little crazy. Actually, make that a lot crazy! This post isn’t going to hash out all of…

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March 8, 2021

Author Identity and the Education Argument

Hi everyone! My apologies for being MIA the past two weeks – there has been a lot going on and I had to have…

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January 25, 2021

Story Ideas 1 (a.k.a the Graveyard of Abandoned Drafts, early years)

I’m not going to lie, I found myself at a bit of a loss as to what I would write on here this week….

Building an author brand part three
January 18, 2021

Building an Author Brand (Part 3)

In this final entry of the Building and author brand trilogy, I’m going to go a bit introspective here and talk about some of the pros and cons of author branding. Also featuring rants about authenticity and mentions of Lucy Daniels.

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