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Renegade A to Z – J is for…

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

… Joely Black, author of the Amnar series, and the person who inspired me to start podcasting 20 Years Later all that time ago. Joely was one of the first people who I really conversed with on Twitter, and has been a source of inspiration to me as a writer who just gets on with [...]

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Growing pains

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

So, I have another confession to make. I’ve been hiding. Hiding behind flash fiction mainly, but I’m aware that it’s been at least two weeks since I wrote a post that wasn’t mostly fiction. I’m a little bit stuck, then I had an epiphany that I should probably write to you guys about it, then [...]

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Is there an artistic double standard?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

There are two artists I have discovered online. I go to their blogs regularly and love what they do. One is of course, Diana of Mosaic Moods, who I talk about all the time anyway, and the other is Rowena who paints the flying girl pictures. I don’t know why I love them, but I [...]

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Six months in and it’s time for some commitment

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Trumpet fanfare please: it’s my sixth month blogging anniversary. I know most people only make a fuss when they’ve been blogging for a year, but this is a big deal to me because six months was the amount of time I was going to do it before deciding whether to continue. On a dark evening in [...]

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Is self-publishing cheating?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

The lovely Graham and I have been talking about this worry that if we self-publish, we are cheating the system. (Incidently, his place is a much better place to go for reasoned discussions about publishing. This place here isn’t, in fact this post is a very emotional, biased discussion of publishing, just to warn you).This [...]

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