Sorry re-posting this had an error posting it, sorry if you saw that error 😮 Today Amazon.com has banned all reviews for free and discounted products unless they are done via Amazon’s Vine program… Source: Amazon's New Reviewing Rules - Could it Affect Authors in the Future?

Yesterday, I read a wonderful piece by Melissa Yancy on The Upside of Failure and was struck by these lines in the closing paragraph: “If I hadn’t learned to love the act itself, I̵… Source: Writing Life: A Practice of Being Present

I’ve had a request from EJ Runyon (who you might recognise as an Undercover Soundtrack contributor). She’s asked me, quite simply, to talk about writing emotions and feelings. Emotions and feelings… Source: How to write emotions and feelings

Last month, I mentioned the launch of Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, here is the first installment from the book. It lists beats you can us… Source: Emotional Beats: Ways to Portray Desire

I was speaking to a friend this morning, a woman whose writing often glows with lyric beauty, yet who has stopped writing because she could not sell her manuscript and will not self-publish. As a w… Source: How to make a living as a writer #amwriting

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a not particularly interesting post about editing. Between work and everything else, the last few weeks since that has seen a very determined version of me ploughing … Source: When Novel Editing Goes Right

I can’t believe it’s already October. And that means it’s just a month until NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, it’s a worldwide writing lockdown where scribblers of all levels… Source: Doing NaNoWriMo? Nail it with this resource kit