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Hey, I've just found out about this great new Tour company. It's called Supernatural Capital Tours and does these fantastic trips round all the fanged, fae and magical hot spots in London.

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I doubt anyone isn't aware of the terrible situation in Japan. I wanted to do something to help, and was disappointed when I discovered Authors for Japan too late to help with a donation through them. But now Genre for Japan is up and running, and I've donated two items (a Tuckerization, and a critique), for when their auction goes live on the 28th ( Read more... )

It's been a bit quiet over here for a while, so I thought I'd post a Sunday Snippet.

ETA:Well, the original Sunday Snippet is no more, as I've taken it down to play with it :-) Thanks for reading, and I hope you all enjoyed!

But rather than leave you with nothing, here's an extract from The Cold Kiss of Death, book 2 in my Spellcrackers.com series.

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Friends as Characters: what a nail-biting and horrifying fantastic idea this can be.
First where do characters come from? It’s one of those questions that writers are often asked. My own characters arrive from various places: some stroll onto the page fully-formed complete with name*, description and dialogue; others start out as bit parts or walk- ( Read more... )

How do you find the beginning of your novels? How do you know where to start them?

Starting a novel is hard, there’s so much that needs to be fitted in to that beginning hundred or so words and first chapter.

-Introducing the main character/characters
-Introducing the world
-Introducing and setting up the main plot problem
-Hooking the ( Read more... )

Q. For those of you, especially debut authors, who sold series where the first book was complete but future books were not: How much freedom did you have with the writing of the second book?

Q. On pitching series, do you pitch the series in the initial query? Or is that something you extrapolate once you've been invited to send some material along? ( Read more... )

TOPIC: How do you pick the sort of creature/being you utilize?

Personally, I like to have my cake and eat it ;) I wanted to write about vampires, and faeries, and witches, and goblins, and trolls, and all those other creatures that fuel our fears and dreams in the myths and legends. So that’s what I’ve done. I’ve kept the majority of the ( Read more... )

Hi Everyone

Thanks so much to Melissa for inviting me and the intro. I’m delighted and honoured to accept. I’ve been a watcher ever since the FFF started and now I get to join ~big grin~  I’ve learnt a huge amount from the fabulous authors here and everyone’s comments, lots of great info on writing, publishing and of course, so many awesome books ( Read more... )