. Joanne Dannon is an Australian indie-author of romance novels. She loves writing about dashing heroes, sassy heroines and sigh-worthy happy ever after endings and loves sweeping her readers from the mundaneness of everyday life into the delicious pages of romance. Falling for Miss Write is her latest novel, and is book 2 in the Bachelor … Read more
. Welcome to another year of A Day in the Life of a Writer. It’s hard to believe that this is the third year I’ve been running this series, man how time flies. I’ve hosted so many talented authors and this season is lining up to be the best yet! (More on that later!) First … Read more
You’ve heard the term ‘beta reader’ but what are they – and do you need them? A beta reader is…
. Self-publishing has had a bit of a bad rap over the years, but I’m about to give it a PR make-over and dispell five misconceptions. . You do it all yourself. The term self-publishing indicates that you do it all yourself, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s also the reason I … Read more
I’ve been blogging for just on ten years. Starting out as a business blog, then a general ‘discover who I am’ blog, and for the last two or so years, a writing blog. When I first began blogging the landscape was less crowded and very supportive. Comments were everything. Nowadays, things have changed. The internet … Read more
. As we move into 2019 – the year where I will become a published author – I’ve been pondering the question of what author success looks like. When I became serious about my writing and began focusing on it more as a life choice rather than just a hobby, my perception of success was very … Read more
. What a great reading year I’ve had. Although I didn’t quite reach my 30 book goal on my reading challenge on Goodreads, (the year’s not over yet!), I’ve read so many great books this year. So being that time of year – the end of, and Christmas – here’s my top ten of books … Read more
When I decided to take the plunge and commit to NaNoWriMo 2018, I knew it would be touch and go for me to reach the 50k mark. As I wasn’t starting a new manuscript, but rather aiming to finish one already a quarter of the way in, my main aim was to finish the manuscript. … Read more
. November is almost here and for many a writer, that means one thing: NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is where writers from all over the world commit to the aim of writing 50,000 words of a novel during November. That equates to approximately 1,667 words each day. … Read more
. Kate Murdoch is an Australian author of historical fiction, whose debut novel, Stone Circle (historical fantasy) was published in December 2017 and which was also shortlisted for the Chaucer Awards 2018 for pre-1750’s historical fiction. Her short-form fiction has been published in various literary journals in Australia, the UK, US, and Canada. Before her leap into … Read more