For a long time, I have considered September to be the start of my writing year. I reset my writing goals, set a plan for what I want to achieve each month (this is specifically for my manuscript) and a general list of other things I want to achieve (these are writing related). The reason…
Writing
A spring renewal
As spring is the time of year for new life, it seems the perfect time of year to kickstart my blog and give it life again. I have a bit of a plan moving forward (as you will have noticed my attempt at an ad hoc approach didn’t really work), so hopefully things will be…
Writing Away
Life has been as busy as ever so my poor neglected blog is still suffering. I think I will create a list of topics – I found I was much better when I had specific things to talk about. In 2 days I fly across the country to the annual Romance Writers of Australia (RWA)…
#ownvoices is moving on
Like everything in life, when something becomes more mainstream, people start using it as a marketing ploy. The same thing has happened to the #ownvoices movement in the publishing industry: We Need Diverse Books announced that it will no longer refer to books using the term #OwnVoices. Instead, they will use “specific descriptions that authors…
I’m a Daphne finalist
I’m very excited to be able to announce that my manuscript is a finalist in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense in the unpublished mainstream mystery/suspense category. The Daphne is run by the Kiss of Death chapter of RWA (America). Good luck to the other finalists *waving*: Liz Boeger Lis Angus Raimey…