Today’s guest poster is the wonderful David Gouldthorpe, who discusses how he moved from fanfiction to original fiction. Enjoy 🙂
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Interview with author Celeste Straub
Today I welcome the author Celeste Straub onto my blog to do an interview. Check out her thoughts on writing, plotting and who her favourite authors are. Enjoy!
Interview with author Kyle Robertson
Today’s guest post is an interview with the wonderful Kyle Robertson, author of the Camp Ferguson series.
Interview with author Project Kyle
Today’s guest post is an interview with sci-fi author Project Kyle, check out his answers to my questions, below! Enjoy.
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Forgotten Masteries: Pulling Tips from Your Own Subconscious
My friend and author Matthew J Mimnaugh has once again agreed to guest post on this blog. Enjoy!
GP: Interview with author Ebony Olson
This week’s guest post is my awesome friend and author, Ebony Olson. Check out her interview below 🙂
GP: How to plan a novel by Mel Carter
This week’s guest poster is the awesome writer Mel Carter who discusses the technique of planning a novel. Enjoy!
Why guest posting is awesome for writers
It’s Monday again, so time for another Monday Marketing post. Today, I want to discuss why writers should be taking up guest posting opportunities!
Guest post: Baking a bigger cake
This week’s guest poster is the lovely Jann Weeratunga who discusses the authors group she started called “Baking a Bigger Cake” 🙂
BAKING A BIGGER CAKE
“We must meet up for coffee.”
Famous last words.
This is what I saw written on numerous Facebook pages between authors who were only known to each other via this medium.
Thus I decided to make faint promises into concrete arrangements, and so was born the Indie Authors Networking group. I approached Deborah du Plooy from Skoobs and explained my thoughts and she was on board from the onset. Basically, it’s a platform where authors, readers, bloggers, reviewers, artists, printer, publishers and all others literary folk can meet and hang out together. We meet once a month at Skoobs Theatre of Books, basically because they have, under the guidance, (as well as occasional poke and prod) of Deborah du Plooy, launched over 100 Indie Authors and are considered by many as the home of Jozi Indies, and their support is constant. Plus they have a lovely upstairs venue with a licensed bar and brilliant coffee – the two musts for any author.
Guest post: Creating a Functional Family Within Fiction
This week’s guest poster is the wonderful P.C. Zick, who discusses revamping her contemporary romance series. Enjoy!
Creating a functional family within fiction
By P.C. Zick
“I’m from a dysfunctional family.”
We’ve all heard this statement so much, it’s a cliché—overused and meaningless.
However, as an author, I can turn the cliché into something meaningful. But first, I must make my fictional families as dysfunctional as possible to create the necessary conflict and tension. Once I’ve done that, I can turn them into my ideal version of functional. I don’t mean the vision of what we’d been told a “real” family looks like. Those ideas were created with the 1950s sitcoms, and probably messed us all up when we realized we didn’t have Donna Reed in an apron in the kitchen cooking dinner. Or Mrs. Cleaver greeting the Beaver and Wally with homemade chocolate chip cookies and milk when they came home from a perfect day of school. Fred McMurray wasn’t in the recliner in the den with a pipe waiting to dispense down-to-earth advice to his three sons on how to ask a girl out on a date.
