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Well, I like it anyway…
Some wise writer once said something about if you cannot find the story you want to read you must write it yourself. I wish I could remember who that was and the exact quote (answers on a postcard,...
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Please Love Me!
Lately I’ve been pondering the relationship between book reviewers and authors, particularly reviewers with book blogs. It’s a strange and delicate balance. On the one hand, it can be mutually...
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Liz of Liz Loves Books shares her thoughts on being a new blogger
Guess where I met Liz? When I first got to know this delightful tweet-addict she read avidly and reviewed pretty much everything she read on Amazon and Goodreads. This is brilliant, but what’s even...
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Amy Bookworm reveals what she loves about book blogging and surefire ways to...
As with many of the bloggers I’ve got to know this year, I met Amy through Twitter. She’s still at school herself (one of the actual young adults that read young adult!). She’s enthusiastic and...
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Dreams can come true…
Six years ago I had a very strange dream in which a group of teenagers trekked across a barren landscape on a quest. I woke in the middle of the night and wrote it all down, each kid somehow a real,...
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‘From the Shadows I Review’ Char, shows us some Indie love!
Today we’re back to the book blogger feature. For the rest of this week I’ll have another round of guest posts from my lovely reviewer friends. Today is the turn of Char Sharp. Like most of the book...
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Reviewing Books, Avoiding Right-hooks
For regular visitors to the blog, this fella needs no introduction! I first met Jack on Twitter at the end of 2012 and was immediately intrigued by a YA book he was writing. Tethers has since been...
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Victoria Loves Books… really, she does! And she’s all chatty about her new...
Victoria is a terrifically chatty tweeter and a delight to know. She’s a raving Potterhead too, so that makes her extremely cool in my book! She only stared blogging very recently but reads like...
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Meet Bookshelf Butterfly and find out what she loves about book blogging.
I’m not even going to go into where I first met the lovely Faye, but it has something to do with little birds and social networking. She blogs about a wide variety of books on her very pretty blog...
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Book blogging from an author’s perspective – Terry Tyler shares her thoughts
Terry is an author I’ve got to know recently on Twitter. She currently has five contemporary novels on Amazon. I asked her what her thoughts were on approaching bloggers from an author’s point of...
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Can you learn how to be a writer?
As most of you know, I studied creative writing at university. A few people have asked me recently whether I think you need to study formally to be a good writer. This question will be even more...
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No heckling please, I’m only a poor author.
On Monday I went along to a local school to talk about writing and publishing. I had been invited by the school librarian of Haywood Engineering College, a lovely lady who is as passionate about...
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A photo and a memory – how a novel is born.
It’s funny how some novels start out. Sometimes there’s a sensible linear journey that begins with an idea, proceeds to draft, and then becomes an edited, finished product. Nothing could be simpler....
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