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Plotting your story - A writer's process explained

Learn how to plot out your story and finally get your writing started. This will be helpful for new and veteran writers alike.

Selling Books at Conventions - Marketing Yourself

As such, I thought a blog post would be in order to share my experiences and give all of you thinking about doing similar things a head-star

3 Tips for inspiration in writing.

I wish to discuss inspiration, as it is key in any creative venture.

10 lessons from my publishing journey.

The publishing journey, regardless of how you go about it, is a challenging route to march.

This Fickle thing called Motivation

Motivation is an excellent way to start a project, and generally is the starting point for anything.

Marketing tips for indie authors

I am going to talk through some of the things I have learnt while conducting my own marketing campaign to hopefully help others.

Author platform for fiction writers

As I began my writing journey, I often saw others speaking of their author platforms and the importance of them in being successful.

10 Tips for new writers

A list of the top 10 things I have learnt in my writing journey.

How to use real life experience in fantasy and sci-fi

Integrating real life experiences into fantasy and sci-fi stories can be difficult because the worlds are so different. How do you put real

Tropes in fantasy and sci-fi

As an author within the fantasy and sci-fi genres, one of the questions I often see posed in writing groups is how to avoid tropes.