August 30, 2015
Appreciation Post For Copy Editors
I received the copy edited version of RAELIA back from my publishers a couple of days ago and, wow, I just have to say, copy editors are AMAZING!!! The incredible team at Pantera Press completely outdid themselves with my manuscript! There’s no way in a gazillion years that I could have picked up on even a fraction of the…
August 27, 2015
The Importance Of An Author Platform
In this day and age, as painful as it is to admit, agents and publishers are drawn to writers who have evidence of a platform already in play. This is partly because it means there is already a readership ready to purchase any books that may be signed on, but it’s also partly because it shows a…
August 17, 2015
Which Name Is Better?
Help! I can’t choose between Aeylla (“Ay-luh”) OR Aeylia (“Ay-lee-uh”). I can’t tell you why or what for (though, it’s not rocket science considering what it is I do…), but I could really use some kind of vote on this one. Opinions??
August 15, 2015
#LikeAGirl
A couple of days ago a girl called Maddie contacted me because she’s writing a research project on the topic of whether female characters in books are perceived more negatively than male characters. She wanted an author’s opinion and had a few questions for me, questions which I thought were really interesting to think about and…
August 06, 2015
National Bookshop Day Events
This coming Saturday 8th August is National Bookshop Day—and that means author events! Woohoo! I’m actually visiting two different bookstores for Q&As, signings, and fun chit-chat: one in Brisbane and one on the Sunshine Coast. So if you’re in South East Queensland at either of those places on Saturday, I’d love for you to drop…
July 21, 2015
Top 10 Writing Tips
A few months ago I was asked by the Gold Coast Bulletin to come up with a list of writing tips that they could publish in their newspaper. I really wanted to include those tips in a blog post back then too, but the Bulletin asked me to wait until they’d published them first, which is…