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Tomorrow I should finish the first draft of Lifesphere book 2! I thought I would have it done LOOOONG before now, but now the end is here I can’t believe it’s done. It felt like the novel that never ended for a few weeks there.

Once it’s finished, I’ll be taking a week off. I’ll probably still do a few hundred words a day on some project ( Read more... )

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At this stage, I’m going to assume most of you know Queensland is flooded. The area of flooding is larger than France and Germany combined-dozens are dead and the number of homes inundated with water is over 25, 000-last time I checked. There is more flooding in other states as well-and bushfires claiming homes on the other side of the ( Read more... )

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So far this year my own New Year’s Resolutions are going well. Weight is being lost, money is being saved and novels are being written. This year I want to get a car and I should have enough saved to buy a brand new Suzuki Alto on the 20th of April.

I plan on fully finishing/editing two novels this year: Lifesphere: Case file 2 and The ( Read more... )

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Yes, I missed my Christmas post. I’m slack. However tonight is New Year’s Eve! I have a few resolutions for next year, including getting a new car, finishing the second draft of Lifesphere Inc 2 and organising a finally draft of The Hungry People.

The first time I heard back from a publisher (TOR) was a few minutes before midnight on New ( Read more... )

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Sorry I missed posting last week. I was recovering from a day in hospital and totally forgot. No news from the publishers yet. As I said, I’m not expecting to hear anything until the new year.

WRITING TIP OF THE WEEK:

- Enjoy Writing.

You can’t be a professional writer if you don’t enjoy writing. Well, you CAN, but you’ll be really ( Read more... )

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My agent, Sarah, emailed me this morning to tell me the editor’s she has approached are very excited about the project and now have the novel and info/synopsis package in their hot little hands. Sarah said we may have to wait until the new years to hear back from them. I wonder if I’ll get good birthday news? That would be a bit of a fairy ( Read more... )

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I’ve been finding the pressure of having an agent detrimental to my writing process lately. Whenever I sit down to write for the day, I feel like she is watching over my shoulder and I imagine what feedback she will give on different sections of the writing as I’m writing it.

I am literally trying to second guess what she will say BEFORE I ( Read more... )

The manuscript is SO CLOSE to being pitched to publishers. It makes sleeping and focusing on other things very difficult. But here is your writing tip of the week!

WRITING TIP OF THE WEEK:

- Learn grammar, spelling and punctuation.

You shouldn’t ever pay someone to edit your writing. It’s very bad business sense and its going to cause you a lot of ( Read more... )

Welcome to the grand opening of my SECOND writing tip of the week!

In a brief news update, my author bio is finished and with the agent and I have sent her blurbs for the first six books-as she requested. Writing blurbs for books you haven’t written is kind of tricky, because I am not the kind of person who plots everything in advance. I have a ( Read more... )

I have found my way back to live journal. There is a new bio on my user info and an intro post on my blog for those of you who have been wondering where I am.

To get back into the swing of things, I’d like to start posting a writing tip every week. This, shall be my first.

WRITING TIP OF THE WEEK:

- Carry at notebook and pen at all times.

I ( Read more... )