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School is out for the summer and that means I am off work for eight weeks. My little one is also off school for summer, which means I’ll be [...]
July 3, 2022
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Recently someone asked me about how many words I tend to aim for when I’m writing a novel. Generally speaking, I tend to aim for 80,000 [...]
June 20, 2022
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What constitutes supporting an Indie author? Let’s ponder a few scenarios, shall we? 1. If you buy a book by an Indie author you know, but [...]
May 28, 2022
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About a decade ago, I was working in a secondary school in London and running a creative writing group for gifted and talented young people. The [...]
May 25, 2022
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Do you want to know the first thing that people say when I tell them I’m a writer? “I hope you make lots of money”. Is that [...]
May 17, 2022
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In my experience, writing a novel is the literary equivalent of acting: an actor has to do research to prepare for a role, in order to become the [...]
May 12, 2022
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During the dozen years my work has been published in magazines and by book publishers, I’ve become accustomed to receiving beta reader [...]
May 8, 2022
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Creative writing is a skill. It’s a craft that takes time and effort to learn a set of skills and to hone those skills. Some folks choose [...]
May 4, 2022
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Lately I’ve seen so many beautifully arranged pictures on social media of authors showing their picture perfect writing spaces, so I [...]
April 26, 2022
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If you’re an Indie author, chances are you can relate when I say that getting reviews of your book is hard work. If I had a review for [...]
April 23, 2022
Leilanie Stewart 