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Doing another giveaway today – for a fellow Kiwi and Entangled author Michele De Winton.  She’s talking about receiving the magic Call. Leave a comment for a chance to win her fabulous book, The Boss and Her Billionaire. This is currently burning up the Barnes and Noble charts so get in quick before they’re all … Continue reading “Giveaway – Michele de Winton and The Boss and Her Billionaire”

You know that super angsty story that I wrote last year? The one I mentioned in my last post? Weeeellll guess what? I’m finally allowed to say that I sold it. To Samhain!! Okay. So this is where it gets a little freaky. The Samhain sale was actually my first sale. I hadn’t heard from … Continue reading “More News – Sale to Samhain!”

This one’s for the lovely Scarlet Wilson who told me on Twitter that I needed to blog about time management. And since I always do what I’m told, I thought I’d better go do it. 🙂 First up, there are a few things that work in my favour when it comes to fitting in writing … Continue reading “Getting Stuff Done”

Another WIP finished, another ms to add to the pile. Yeah, finished Mr Rough yesterday. And I mean finished very loosely. My endings are so bad, mainly because I hate writing em. Usually because it’s not until I write that I figure out what’s missing in the rest of the ms. With Mr Rough I … Continue reading “Research. It’s Weird.”

Hmmmm, bad blogger me with the weekly posts. I should be doing more. But well, I tend to slow down when I’m feeling in a low patch and have had another dip in the trail in the past couple of weeks. The journey to publication has gone way downhill, past the swamp and the garbage … Continue reading “Emotion – The Heart of the Character”

It’s always the way. You come back from holiday and life kind of descends on you like the 1000 tonne ACME weight descends on the coyote from Roadrunner. Actually, I shouldn’t complain (though I am, obviously), because spending four days down in Queenstown, in a beautiful hotel, isn’t something to complain about. It’s just the … Continue reading “In Which Jackie Waves a Big Stick”

It was inevitable. What goes up must, at some stage, go down. Yeah, the drug that was the character high has now worn off. Big time. Everything is as it was – crap. Oh, not entire crap because I still have had that great character revelation and I still feel good about it. I just … Continue reading “Crash”

Yeah, well, sometimes my process is stupid. Why? Well, I’ve been doing again what I swore never to do – moving my characters to suit my plot. Gah! It’s so insidious. You have a great idea for a scene perhaps mid-way through the book and because you love the idea of this scene so much, … Continue reading “Stupid Process”

Okay, confession time. I have been avoiding New Voices. Yep, totally and completely avoiding it. Why? Weeeeelllll, long story and one I’m not going to share on this blog but it was part of why last year was the Annus Horribilis of my writing career (can I call it a career when I’m not actually … Continue reading “FOMO”