Gabriel and Honor Enjoy the View – A Nine Circles Short

Here’s a short that involves Gabriel and Honor from Mine To Take. This appeared in my newsletter in May. If you’d like to be the first to read more shorts like this one, feel free to sign up (just fill in the box at the top right of this page).     Honor leaned against … Continue reading “Gabriel and Honor Enjoy the View – A Nine Circles Short”

Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #3 – The Partial

Better late than never right? Here’s my last post about creating a killer proposal and yeah, I know, it’s months overdue and I’m a baaaad for not posting sooner but deadlines always come before everything else… Anyway, my previous posts have dealt with your synopsis and having a couple of sentences to put in your … Continue reading “Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #3 – The Partial”

Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #2 – Pitching

So a couple of week ago (yeah, I know I’m late with this but the writing comes first), I talked about synopses. Now, we’re going to spend a bit of time with something shorter, but no less fiddly to write – the pitch. Pitches are different beasts. They’re designed to be short and hooky to … Continue reading “Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #2 – Pitching”

Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #1: The Synopsis AKA Too Many Things!

I’ve been meaning to do a post on synopses and pitches for a while now, but as I was writing this post, I realized that writing a synopsis was different to writing a pitch. And then I thought it might be cool to do a post on what to do when you’re pitching a series, … Continue reading “Writing a Damn Fine Proposal #1: The Synopsis AKA Too Many Things!”

Writing What You Love – AKA Why Billionaires??

Yeah, so I’ve been thinking a lot about sales and markets and all the stuff you do when you have books being released immanently. And about how some things sell better than others and how lame it is when you don’t write what’s supposedly ‘popular’. It also hasn’t escaped my notice that yes, I have … Continue reading “Writing What You Love – AKA Why Billionaires??”