I am a big fan of Mary Hoffman’s. She tells it like it is on her blog and on Facebook. She’s creative, amusing and highly quotable, which is why I’m linking to her blogpost here and her main website here (advice for writers).
I’m linking to her blog because of the title of this blog: Ten [...]
I don’t really have a heading for this post, except to say that today I feel incredibly inspired and I am slightly worried because it feels like I might implode or something if it doesn’t get out.
pleh!
It feels like the words are burning under my skin to get out. But what, but what to give in [...]
I’m not going to say much, except watch this!
**this blog is cross-posted from my LJ account**
kaz_mahoneyand I attended a talk last night held at Random House – it was hosted by Kids at Random House and also a group of kids called HeadSpace – actually, find a bit of promo for them below this cut and then continue reading some thoughts and ideas [...]
I was chatting to someone I know quite recently. He’s written a book, tried approaching various publishers, it didn’t work so he self-published it. By all counts its a bit of an expose, a bit Dan Brown. He’s offered to give me a copy to read as he is keen for reviews. On one hand [...]
I have been sitting on my good news for a teeny tiny while now and got the go-ahead to reveal this last night, so here you go:
I, Liz de Jager, get to be in an anthology with a bunch of absolutely awesome well established authors.
The anthology is called: The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance and [...]
I’m still very enamoured with SCBWI.
Last night was the London social and there were quite a few of us. What struck me most is the cameraderie and genuine enthusiasm of everyone present. Some may be more or less talkative than others (naturally I was the very demure one – uhm, no, I wasn’t) and I [...]
Together with a friend Sarah (esssjay on LiveJournal and twitter) we’ve come up with this crazymad idea of doing on our version of NaNoWriMo.
In NaNoWriMo you write 50,000 words for your novel. That is a lot of words. We felt we wouldn’t be able to do it. So we thought up IndyWriMo instead.
And no, it [...]
So there I was merrily typing away on my gorgeous new iMac (called Mist) with its obscenely large screen, using the newly discovered Scrivener software when unexpectedly there strolled up a Fae war band into Vassilly’s Daughter.
Hang on! Hang on!
Where did they just come from?
I shouted this new happening out to Mark, who was upstairs, [...]
4400 / 60000 words. 7% done!
I thought I’d keep track of Vassily’s Daughter on this main blog purely for my own benefit, of course!
We tried going to the MCM Film and Comic Expo at the Exel Centre today but once we got there, we were horrified to see the queue of around 3000 people inside [...]
