Q&A With An Author

I had so much fun vlogging the other day that I’m thinking I’ll do a series of shorter videos in a kind of “Q&A” theme. Sort of like “Q&A With An Author” – the author being me! SO… If you have any questions you think would be interesting for me to answer via vlog, then…

The Necessary Discipline Of Writing

I wrote over 11,000 words today! If you read my Facebook post earlier, you’ll know some of those words were spent trudging through a particularly challenging scene, which wasn’t all that much fun. Here’s an honesty moment: I desperately considered giving up and binge-watching repeats of The 100. BUT… I didn’t do that. Instead, I…

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…

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…

ATTENTION SYDNEY READERS AND WRITERS

I’m visiting the beautiful Sydney at the moment and giving a couple of writing workshops and Q&As over the next couple of days – woohoo! I’m pretty sure Monday’s workshop is fully booked out, but they’ve opened up a second time slot for tomorrow because of the demand and there are still a handful of…

Six Minutes With An Author

I’m deep in writing mode at the moment but I don’t want to neglect this blog, so here’s a quick post from a segment I was recently asked to do for LitPick called ‘Six Minutes With An Author’. To be honest, I’m not sure about the ‘six minutes’ part – whether that’s how long it’s meant to…