What Tansy Did…
I thought I’d do a round-up of what the ROR writers have been up to… Tansy Rayner Roberts says: I’m working on a Victorian chivalric romance with robots right now, which is great fun, while I wait for other news … Continue reading
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Margo Reveals What it’s like inside a ROR Crit Week!
From Margo … A Deepening ROR—a wRiters On the Rise workshop, from the inside First there’s a bit of foreplay. Someone pipes up online: “When’s the next ROR?” Someone at the other end of the country: “I’ll have a novel … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Spec Fic Scene, Authors and Public Speaking, Book Launches, Dialogue, Editing and Revision, Genre Writing, Nourish the Writer, Plotting, Point of View, Research, Story Structure, World Buildng, Writing Craft, Writing Groups
Tagged Characterisation, Creativity, Fantasy books, Margo Lanagan, Publishing Industry, Richard Harland, ROR Writing Group, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Writing Craft
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Raring to ROR…
As some of you might know our ROR writing group gets together every 12 – 18 months to critique our books in progress. Back in 2001 at the first ROR we read Margo Lanagan’s Black Juice anthology and wept over … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Spec Fic Scene, Awards, Book Launches, Creativity, Editing and Revision, Genre Writing, Nourish the Writer, Plotting, Writing Craft, Writing goals, Writing Groups
Tagged Aurealis Awards, Creativity, Dirk Flinthart, Fantasy books, Margo Lanagan, Marianne de Pierres, Maxine McArthur, Richard Harland, ROR Writing Group, Rowena Cory Daniells, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Trent Jamieson, World Fantasy Award, Writing Craft
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Is that a door opening or are you just pleased to see me?
Back in March 2011, Angry Robot Books, a UK-based publisher that generally only accepts agented submissions, held their first Open Submission Month, an experiment to see whether there were any unrepresented gems floating around the submitosphere that might be of … Continue reading
Posted in Agents, Australian Spec Fic Scene, Contracts, Creativity, Editing and Revision, Editors, Nourish the Writer, Pitching, Plotting, Publishers, Publishing Industry, Query Letter and Synopsis, Writing Opportunities
Tagged Angry Robot, Angry Robot Publishers, Lee Battersby, Marching Dead, The Battersblog
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Sean the Blogonaut on Writers, Reviewing and Websites
Rowena has very kindly invited me to discuss how reviewers find an author via their web presence, what they look for on author web sites and finally, what they look for in a book. Who is Sean and why should … Continue reading
Part Two of Ian Irvine’s 41 ways to Keep Readers Reading
41 WAYS TO CREATE AND HEIGHTEN SUSPENSE IN FICTION PART TWO – PLOT AND STRUCTURE The first part of this article dealt with suspense from the viewpoint of characters and their problems. This part looks at ways to create suspense … Continue reading
Posted in Characterisation, Creativity, Editing and Revision, Genre Writing, Nourish the Writer, Plotting, Point of View, Research, Story Structure, World Buildng, Writing Craft
Tagged 41 ways to create and heighten suspense in fiction, creating conflict, Ian Irvine, Keep readers reading, plot and structure, raise the stakes, set a time limit, Writing Craft
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Ian Irvine Reveals 41 Ways to Keep Readers Turning the Page!
41 WAYS TO CREATE AND HEIGHTEN SUSPENSE IN FICTION PART ONE – CHARACTERS AND THEIR PROBLEMS According to top New York literary agent Noah Lukeman (The Plot Thickens), if a writer can maintain suspense throughout the story, many readers will … Continue reading
The Inner Life of a Successful Writer
Back in the late nineties after I had my first children’s book published I wrote up a Beginning Writer’s Checklist (here’s the updated version). Recently, I came across this post The Common Traits of the Successful Writer by Bob Mayer, … Continue reading
Nicole Murphy – what I’ve learnt since my trilogy sale
Or … The joy of being a newbie writer. July 1 marks the official release date of Rogue Gadda, the third and last book in the Dream of Asarlai series. It hasn’t even been two years since I got … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Spec Fic Scene, Book Giveaway, Creativity, Editing and Revision, Editors, Nourish the Writer, Plotting, Promoting your Book, Publishers, Publishing Industry, Writing Craft
Tagged Book Giveaway, Dark Urban Fantasy, Dream of the Aslari, Nicole Murphy, Power Unbounded, Rogue Gadda, Secret Ones
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Writing Process
This one is for the Gorgeous Goth Girl, who dropped by the writers’ table at Brisbane Supanova and asked if I could do a post about the Writing Process. Writing Process is such a huge topic, I thought I’d review … Continue reading