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Authonomy is Appreciating Angels

Appreciating Angels by Sarah Lamb is now on Authonomy … and rising up the charts rapidly.

Authonomy is a brilliant site from Harper Collins that allows authors to post their work and get reviewed by readers and other authors.

The stories that reach the top get looked at by the commissioning editors.  Several new authors have already [...]

Happenings

I’ve just been Twinterviewed

I am really honoured to be @nicktadd’s second guest on the NT Show this morning.

Nick has pushed the social media envelope yet again with this amazing format where he interviews a guest live on Twitter.

Not only does he fire questions at you, to which you reply as best as you can in 140 chars or [...]

Writers' Block

Author’s Block

And why it’s different from writer’s block

When you get asked the same thing three times in the same month, you know it’s time to blog about it.

Last month, three different authors came to me with the same tale of woe. Either a publisher had not delivered what they said they would or had let them [...]

Tips

Competition Time

If you read the writer’s magazines, there are loads of writing and poetry competitions going on all the time. You could spend your writing career full time just entering them all. For this reason, I don’t often broadcast them.

But then, three unusual ones come along all at once, like buses, I felt I had to [...]

Resources

20 Useful Twitter Links for Writers

Calling all authors … did you know you could use Twitter to do all of this ?

Post samples of your words

Post your pictures & art

Post audio readings of your work

Post 12 seconds of video

Connect with other authors, publishers and agents like these

100+ of the best authors on Twitter

70+ Non-fiction authors on Twitter

25 Good [...]

Podcasts

Unleashing your author’s voice

I work with many authors who prefer to dictate their books than write them on paper or type them up. I am sure that this is because they have a preference to the auditory side of their brains as opposed to the visual or kinesthetic.
For some this even manifests itself as a block that [...]