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Help for freelancer writers and bloggers: Blogs to check out
Freelancing can be lonely business: sitting at a desk, tapping away at a laptop, contact through email. Thank goodness for the internet which means that the company of other freelancers is only a short search away. There are some fantastic bloggers out there for the freelance community. There is lots of helpful information on just…
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Book Review: The Accidental Gatekeeper by Carla Rehse
The Story: Everly Poppa is a 45 year old woman with a sassy teen daughter and a husband in jail. With no one else to turn to, she heads home to her Mom, despite having left her home town, years before, vowing never to return. Home is a small town in America that happens to…
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Topically Challenged Volume 1 Out Now
I am published in an anthology! In a previous blog post, I mentioned that I enjoyed doing writing challenges. At the beginning of the year, I took part in two such challenges on Chris Fielden’s website and have now been published as part of a flash fiction anthology. I chose to take part for a…
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Book Review: Self-Publish and Succeed
Self-Publish and Succeed: The ‘No boring books’ way to write a non-fiction book that sells by Julie Broad Thanks to Netgalley for my preview copy of this book When reading a self-help book, it is always gratifying to see that the author has taken their own advice in the production of their book. Julie Broad…
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Writer – do you plan or fly by the seat of your pants?
For whatever reason you write, there are usually at least two broad ways to do it. Either you are a planner – someone who plans what they are going to write or you are a pantser. This means someone who is flying by the seat of their pants, or someone who has no plan, they…
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Country Cat Blues Book Cover Reveal
With thanks to Red Dog Press and author Alison O’Leary This week on the blog, I am excited to bring you the cover reveal of a book that is released next week. Country Cat Blues by Alison O’Leary will be available to buy on 23rd February 2021. It is the second book in the series,…
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PixelScrapper – the Digital Way to Put a Photo Album Together
In the UK, we have all had to stay home more, thanks to Covid-19 but this has created more opportunities for creative hobbies. I have enjoyed reading more books, written more short stories and discovered how to make a digital scrapbook. I was looking for…
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Business Owner – How to Improve your Website
Have you been thinking that it’s time to improve your website? It’s been years since you did anything with your business website. The About information is out of date and the last blog post is dated 2018. Perhaps you have some products that you should add, but you never seem to have any time. The…
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Do you enjoy writing book reviews? Try NetGalley
I have always enjoyed reading books. I am a member of a local book club and we meet up monthly to review and discuss books we have read. Reading a variety of books and authors is a really good way to improve your own writing. An author whose blog I follow, mentioned NetGalley, so I…
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Stronger Fiction: Should you write every day?
One of those pieces of advice given out to every writer is: Write every day It is given out so often that we are in danger of feeling that we are not writers if we don’t write every day. What if you find it hard to find time to write every day, however? What if…