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Writer, time travel chronicler, pug-wrangler.

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Travel thru time with 16yo Maddy. Feel death's chill in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, a medieval sword sting, a choke of dust from a Wild West herd, a salty pirate kiss, blood on the blossoms of an Edo garden. And icy terror as changes rip thru the timeline. #BookTwitter #amwriting
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1 year
Loading my book onto Amazon...It's scary and complex. But I'm happy this is an option these days. 20 years ago, if agents and publishers said no, yr book went nowhere. Now, we can do it ourselves and have a chance to prove them wrong! Wish me luck! #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Shouting into the void! Hello! Helllloooooooo! Anyone there???
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1 year
Do you remember the days when you thought that if you wrote a novel, someone would rush forward to publish it and you'd have to engage a lawyer to negotiate your advance and terms. Those were some crazy, fun days, weren't they?? #WritingCommunity #amwriting #scifi
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1 year
I contacted a local bookshop to see if I could have a booklaunch there. I was thinking 20 or so close friends and some champagne. Now they want to promote it & get strangers to come! OMG! Will I have to give a speech? I feel much more comfortable at my keyboard! #writingcommunity
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1 year
My computer died this weekend. I had all 6 books from the series on there-over a decade of work! I thought I'd los5 them. Thankfully, we got the files off. So if you haven't done so for a while, back up your files! Save yourself a near heart attack! #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Are you an exclamation mark person?!!!
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1 year
I've been a published author for almost 3 weeks now. It feels GREAT! A dream come true. I queried 110 agents/70 publishers. But now I'm an #indieauthor & excited about it! With 5 more books in my #timetravel series to release by Nov 24! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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Expectations v reality on book launch day. Just a bit of fun...though a lot of truth in it. We imagine for a long time, and maybe get the wrong idea. Though I'm having a blast being a published author for 3 weeks now! LOVING it! #writingcommunity #amwriting #Books #booktwitter
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1 year
Does a book's cover influence your decision to buy it? I reckon I judge a book by its cover, though I'm told repeatedly not to, and I'm a writer and should know better. What about you guys? #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting #scifi #writersoftwitter
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1 year
I’m afraid when I hear Amazon is limiting authors to 3 loadups per day as they’re deluged by AI written stuff. What will it mean for us all? ESP indie writers. How will anyone distinguish rubbish by AI from well written work by real people? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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Do you think we'll have to write shorter novels with less complexity in future as attention spans shrink, and people allow themselves to be distracted more while reading? #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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Is it our fate as writers to accept that no matter how much effort we put into our books, crafting, researching, rewriting, editing, editing, proofreading...someone will say loudly that it's rubbish. Are we destined to be punchbags? #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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10 months
YA. Would you read a YA book? If not, why not? Does the label put you off? I wrote my YA most def with adult readers in mind too. Do we need a new label? YAA or YA+ as the idea of things being too childish seems an old concept. Agree or disagree? #writingcommunity #amwriting
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6 months
Fellow scribes. Just a reminder. This novel writing thing we do is normalised here. But it is not normal. Writing a novel is an extraordinary accomplishment…whether you get good reviews or awards or lots of sales! Congrats on awesome achievement! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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10 months
For #indieauthors who are a tad deflated on book launch day with low sales, I put my video up about the realities of release day & a popular trad published author said he could relate. Is no-one selling many new books? #Writingcommunity #amwriting #booktwt #writersoftwitter
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1 year
In the X years I've been writing, what's my no.1 piece of advice? Don't share your work too freely. Esp with non-writers. Even friends/family say the most brutal things-without meaning to. "It was o-kay." (wrinkling nose) Might as well have stabbed me! What's your best advice?
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11 months
Scott Lynch famously said: "Writers are afflicted with 2 contradictory illusions; the burning certainly that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds speeding towards epic failure!" I agree. Do you? #writingcommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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1 year
I've read that some people feel low after they launch their first novel. Post-launch depression-for want of a term. For those who've done it, did you feel anything like this? Is it a writer thing? Or just that a long lead up to an event creates unrealistic expectations? #writer
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1 year
I wonder why I'm seeing so many non-writers on my feed when I only follow writers? (Not because I'm a snob, but because I want to stick to talk about writing, and not anything else). What's going on? #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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2 years
My hubby asked his very smart colleagues at a meeting who their favourite author was. And most of them had to think back to their school texts for a name- they hadn't read a book in the 15/20 years since. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying #writersoftwitter
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So I just read that writers are held to much higher account than before. They can have flawed characters, but no flaws themselves. Or people turn on them and publishers dump them. Do you feel like you're walking a tightrope over a pit of shame? #writingcommunity
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1 year
Do you reckon people still think we authors are rolling in money, scribbling to do lists on $100 bills? That once you finish your novel, publishers rush towards you waving wads of cash? Book advances in six figures. Seven! (That's a great story!) #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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What is bad writing, exactly? I mean I know it when I see it...but when people say something is badly written, what do you think they mean? What are the biggest no-nos for you in reading others work? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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6 months
Just to say thank you to my Twitter friends for reposting my promo tweets this week for books 1 & 2. I don't have big reach on other platforms. But people here have been a big help! Thanks so much! #WritingCommmunity #amwriting #TimeTravelAuthors #fantasy #indieauthors #books
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When 16yo Madison saves the vizier's teenage son from drowning in Ancient Egypt, she breaks Time Travel Rule No.1 - Don't mess with the timeline. Now a 17yo boy who should be dead, is alive. And in love with her. And the rest ... is no longer history. #moodpitch #YA #TT #SF #R
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5 months
I LOVE being a writer. Low sales can be dispiriting but the hardest thing for me is the silence-not hearing what people think. I yearn to know who a reader's favourite character was or which scene they liked best. What's hardest for you? #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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1 year
So I went for the black shirt and long boots…pirate style…with a time travelled themed necklace. This is a pic I’ve waited a long time to pose for. Me at the launch of my first novel…Secrets of the Nile!
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Don’t you love a book promoter promising to make your posts go viral on social media…100 million views… when they only have 145 followers?
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1 year
Does it upset you that the book you've been working on and editing, rewriting, and editing and proofing, for an eternity, can be devoured by a reader, who cries: "Next!" when they're done. That we're creating an ephemeral pleasure. #writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi #indiebooks
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7 months
Remember the days when we thought that once we’d finished our novel, we’d be fielding offers by agents, publishers., movie companies. And watching that dashboard go off! How sweet were we? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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1 year
Do you read book reviews on Goodreads? Do they influence your decision to buy? If yes, how do you assess the review? Do you look for a particular score? Read the detail? Pay attention to 1 star ratings? What’s your process? #WritingCommmunity #amwriting #bookreview #amreading
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5 months
The big question. Does being a self-published/indie author mean yr work is lesser? Do people still have a strong preference for trad pubbed work? Do readers have a preference? If so, why? Gimme yr thoughts, Bookfolk! (But don't be mean!) #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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1 year
I’ve been reading and writing for quite a while now but I am still mystified as to why one book catches fire for me and another, which seems to follow all the rules about good writing, doesn’t. Will I ever know the answer? Do I even want to know? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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Celebration on release day for Samurai Steal, book 5 of The Time Travel Chronicles. Home alone at the moment, thought I'd raise a glass to my Twitter friends! We have to celebrate these moments! Cheers, guys! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #amreading #bookbloggers
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1 year
Wish me luck today! I'm doing a small film shoot with a couple of actor friends to act out some scenes from my book-Revenge of the Black Knight, in costume...to give folk an idea of what it's like. Bit nervous!!! #writingcommunity #amwriting #indieauthors #historicalfiction
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1 year
Secrets of the Nile-my YA time travel novel- is out today. A great launch night was had with wine in the bookshop till late. And look at that up on the shelves! Woo-hoo! Go get it! What're you waiting for? #writingcommunity #booktwitter #amwriting #amreading #scifi #bookboost #YA
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Excitement! Someone at the stall looking real close at my books! Oh! They were retying their shoelace! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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7 months
Take a trip thru time with 16yo Maddy. Feel the dust in yr throat in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, a sword's sting in Medieval England, epic muscle ache after riding with a Wild West herd.And icy terror as the changes rip thru the timeline. #amwriting #BookTwitter #bookbloggers #book
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4 months
Travel thru time with 16yo Maddy. Feel dust in yr throat in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, a sword's sting in medieval England, muscle ache riding with a Wild West herd, a salty pirate kiss.And icy terror as changes you made rip thru the timeline. #amwriting #BookTwitter #bookbloggers
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1 year
Where is everyone? All those familiar names don't seem to be there. Is this another algorithm glitch? Or have you all gone for good??!! #WritingCommunity
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4 months
What do you think it is we want as writers? Fame? Fortune? Admirers? A small group of supporters? What is it we're aiming for here? Gimme! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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1 month
Riddle me this, folks. I have almost 7,000 followers and now many of my tweets seem to go to lots of folk with litttle response. The sort of tweet that would have got 50 responses is lucky to get one. Are people sick of me? Or are the numbers who see it no longer writers?
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6 months
I'm amazed when I see books with 1000s, 10s of 1000s of reviews? How on earth do they get them all? There must only be a very small percentage of readers who bother. Couldn't be more that 10pct. Question is how can we get even a fraction of that?? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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1 year
Why do we put books "out there"? What are we looking for? Money? Fame? Our beloved characters to loved by others? To stick it to our creative writing teacher who said we were rubbish? To find a few good readers? A few million? What will make us happy? #writingcommunity #amwriting
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11 months
Me and my book babies! (At last a decent pic!) The Time Travel Chronicles, books 1, 2 and 3…with 3 more coming next year! How messed up does the world get? 6 books worth! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BooksWorthReading
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Mystery is the most important element in a story. Agree or disagree? I'm not talking a whodunit, I'm talking all sorts of secrets the characters have, where we get hints of what they are and want to know more. #writingcommunity #amwriting
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1 year
I can't believe they're all reading my book!! Got a flashmob to help me get eyes on Secrets of the Nile, bk 1 of my series. After we got over the embarrassment, it was a blast! Can you see me among that lot?? #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #booktwt #historicalfiction
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All set up for the Glebe market in Sydney! Have I forgotten anything? Customers! Gates don’t open for another hour! Fingers crossed I sell a few! #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Confirmed my suspicions. My tweet about cats and dogs went to over 1000 people. My giveaway of a papery thing with words only reached 200. #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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V.excited to discover Secrets of the NIle, my YA time travel novel coming out on Tuesday, is no. 6 on Amazon's Teen, historical fiction, ancient cultures list! Wow! I had no idea. #writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi
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Lot of people looking as they walk by! Perhaps I should step back. Being there gawping back at them might put them off. Do you get put off of you can’t look at a stall privately without the shopkeeper watching you. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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I've a strange situation here. All the books in my 6-book series are 80,000 to 110,000 except book 5,, hanging in there at 72,000 words. As I edit, I'm loathe to cut as I don't want to get too short. But the journo in me hates flab! To cut or not to? #writingcommunity #amwriting
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There's a furore on Tktk about a debut author said to have created fake accounts on Goodreads to write bad reviews for other authors in her genre. Not sure how they found that out. But if it's true...! Gosh, as if it ain't hard enough! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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6 months
A writer's life is peppered with rejection & disappointment. When you query-again & again. When you give a friend a sample to read and they ain't thrilled. When you watch the donut on the dashboard and wonder "is this thing working?". How do you cope? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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Good criticism is hard to do. And when you point out 'not good' bits, you need to balance it with noticing the good bits. Otherwise it feels like a list of failings and crushes the writer. Do you agree? What is truly good critiquing really IYHO? #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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"Too much grinning!" my alpha reader wrote. Gah! What other ways can I describe action of turned-up moth? After 70,000 words, I've exhausted every shrug, grin, wink, eyebrow ping, curled lip. What are some less usual descriptsion of reactions? Gimme! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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11 months
Preparations are underway for the markets tomorrow! Excited, and nervous! Selling the first 3 books of The Time Travel Chronicles in Glebe markets. If anyone from Sydney is near, stop by to say hi! #writingcommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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Another Xmas market done! This one in an all girls school. It was fun and I sold 17 books! But it seems only the younger girls want to read! It is nice to meet new readers. But I overestimated how many I’d sell. Oh well. I have books for next Xmas!! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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2 years
Do you ever wonder whether you 'values' and 'thoughts' that infuse and drive your books might be a little strange and out of kilter with others? That you might be revealing the workings of a strange mind in your manuscript? #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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1 year
So after our discussion about reviews and the wisdom/ethics of paying services to get them, I see very polarised thinking. If I ask if anyone wants a review copy of my book (which I am btw) is that also unethical…giving a free book to get a review? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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1 year
What should I wear to my book launch on Tuesday? Secrets of the Nile…a YA time travel. My friend said a fancy dress. I was thinking jeans boots and black jacket. Maybe I should go all ancient Egyptian. What does one wear? #WritingCommmunity #amwriting
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5 months
Have you ever named a character after someone who did you a favour? As a thank you? Would you ever consider this? For readers, would this be something good? Or not? #WritingCommmunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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#COVERREVEAL for Shoot-out at Death Canyon-Bk 3 of The Time Travel Chronicles. Awesome design by Holly Dunn. When a time-travelling assassin kidnaps her bestie, 17yo Madison chases them...to the Wild West. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #Booklover #TimeTravelAuthors
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For those who read historical fiction… in any form… (like time travel host fic) would an incorrect small detail put you off the book completely? #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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Happy new year, my comrades in ink! May the words flow in 2024 and you find your true audience! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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My triplet book babies are so cool! Covers by Holly Dunn of NZ! With Shoot-out at Death Canyon, book 3, preorder for Nov 10. When a timetravelling assassin kidnaps her best friend, 17yo Madison follows..to the Wild West. #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading #amwriting #booklover
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When 16yo Madison saves the vizier's son from drowning in Ancient Egypt she breaks Time Travel Rule No.1-Don't mess with the timeline. Now a 17yo boy who should be dead is alive. And the rest is no longer history. Out July 18 #WritingCommunity #TimeTravelAuthors #scifi #amwriting
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Happy dance for the release of Shoot-out at Death Canyon, book 3 in my time travel series! 3 this year, 3 next! Question: how am I going to hold more for future release dances in 2024? To get yr copy: #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #amreading
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Is there any more depressing errand than trekking it to a bookshop, which kindly took your books on consignment, to take them back because...time is up, and they haven't sold. And they need the space for Xmas! Sigh. #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Secrets of the Nile--a YA time travel in Ancient Egypt & bk 1 of The Time Travel Chronicles. When 16yo Madison saves the vizier's son from drowning in Ancient Egypt, she breaks Time Travel Rule No.1-Don't Mess with the timeline! #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading #books #Booklovers
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Helllllooooooo. Can you hear me? Am I all alone on planet X????? #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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If you get a book for free, do you value it as much as if you'd pay for it? Or do you think it was free so it's not worth reading? And so you have it on your kindle. Do you ever choose to open it? I'm interested in your thought processes. #WritingCommunity #BookTwitter #amreading
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2 years
When 16yo Madison saves the vizier's teenage son from drowning in Ancient Egypt, she breaks Time Travel Rule No.1--Don't mess with the timeline. Now a 17yo boy who should be dead is alive. And in love with her. And the rest ... is no longer history. Secrets of the Nile--July 2023
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1 year
What is your pet hate in a story, something guaranteed to make you put the book down, or sour your feelings towards the book. Is there any coming back from that for an author?
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1 year
Writers, don't give up. As James Baldwin (1924-87) said: Talent is insignificant. The sole common denominator among successful authors is endurance. Any aspiring writer should have no illusion about the amount required. Keep on writing guys! #writingcommunity #scifi #amwriting
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1 year
Historical fiction writers--how much room is there for diverging from facts? When you pick up a HF, do you expect total accuracy, all facts sourced? Or is a mix of historical +creative detail okay? Is there a sliding scale? #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi
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2 years
Are we writers only as good as our last review? Does our confidence billow and vanish in a nanosecond depending on how others regard our work. Or do we have an unshakeable belief in our work? (I hear your mad laughter as I write!) #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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6 months
Here’s a question. How long do you give a book before you give up on it? And what is the most likely reason you didn’t like it? #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #booktweet #amreading
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7 months
For indies disgruntled (like me!) that we can't see our works in RL bookshops, here's a little film I made showing one way to do it. (We were only thrown out of one bookstore during the making of this!) #indieauthors #amwriting #bookbloggers #WritingCommunity #booklover #author
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2 years
What if after 10 yes writing my time travel series and editing editing editing and proofreading till my eyes water, and getting a cover and laying out word and promoting…what if no one reads my books? #WritingCommunity #scifi #amwritingfiction
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10 months
Writers are like start ups. We spend years (in my case over a decade) developing a product. Paying for covers, editing. And then we go to market hoping our product will take off and we will recoup our investment. #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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10 months
Make some poor hunched, squinty scribbler happy this season! Write a book review. Doesn't have to be long. Let them know their work is being read, not falling into some dark vortex and being sucked to Reading Planet! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter #Booklovers #booktwt
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8 months
Do you think there's a Stockholm syndrome with book readers? Because sometimes, when the MC is a villain, I find myself rooting for them, although I know they've done wrong. What think you, scribes?? #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
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2 months
Don't you love people who DM you to say "Hello", "Are you a writer?" "What do you write?" Given what my pinned post is, and how I often I push my time travel books...where are they messaging from? Another planet with poor reception! Gah! #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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5 months
Doing another market today at Manly. Beach. Anyone in Sydney passing by stop in and say hello! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #BookTwitter
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1 year
Launch day tomorrow. Feel like I've leapt off a cliff and am free-falling, riding the updraft, listening to the wind howling. Waiting on impact. Secrets of the Nile-my 1st novel-out Tuesday. Can a misplaced smile change the world? #Booktwitter #writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi
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3 years
Cover reveal for Point of Origin, bk 6 of my #YA #timetravel series. Over 500,000 words, 10 years in the making, my protags travel to Ancient Egypt, Medieval England, Wild West, Pirate era, Edo Japan + the future. Coming 2022. #writingcommunity #scifi #amwriting #writerslift
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14 days
What do you think about giving readers a playlist on Spotify to listen to of songs you listened to as you wrote the story? What think you, Scribes? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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11 months
Do you ever think that you spent too long writing ur novel series and have released it at a time when people aren’t reading so much and certainly not the kind of detailed, complex story you’ve created? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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1 year
Is anyone out there? Will anyone ever be out there again? #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter
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10 months
Take a trip with 16yo Maddy. Feel the dust in yr throat in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, a sword's sting in medieval England, epic muscle ache after riding with a Wild West herd. And icy terror as changes you made rip thru the timeline. #BookTwitter #amwriting
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1 year
Are readers still suspicious of non-traditionally published books? Do some readers still only buy books published by known publishing houses and think of indie books as lesser? Or is that POV fading? What do you think? #WritingCommunity #indiebooks #amwriting #readingcommunity
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1 year
My first weekend cleaning the house as a published author! Hmmm, how life changes...or not. Do you think George RR said the same thing after his first published novel! Oh, well, I've shared that now, back to mopping! #writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi #BookTwitter
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1 year
A look at pg 1 Secrets of the Nile, bk 1 of The Time Travel Chronicles, typset and ready to proof. In terms of birthing my baby, it's like my first ultrasound pic. Now comes the labour to get it out of there & into the world. #writingcommunity #scifi #TimeTravelAuthors #amwriting
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1 month
Where does marketing end & vanity begin? I was called vain this wk. And it hurt but I agree b4 I began promoting my series, I hated the idea of shouting about my work. Does indie life do this to us? Do we all draw our own lines in the sand? #amwriting #WritingCommunity #DBGWrites
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4 months
Wow! The last week or so, I barely see anyone I know here. Anyone else feel that lack of engagement? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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10 months
Listening to a literary agent on tktk talk about how she's met and worked with writers over 20 years and noticed we all have a deep yearning-perhaps even a desperate one-for our books to do well. Wow! I think she's right! Nailed it. Agree? or no? #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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1 year
I don’t know if I’ll do well. But after a decade writing, I have 6 books in my time travel series to release over the next 16 months or so. Which is a mini-career! Very excited! #WritingCommmunity #scifi #amwriting #writersoftwitter
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5 months
COVER REVEAL coming soon. For Black Tides, book 4 of The Time Travel Chronicles, set in the golden age of pirates. Arrrrgh, me hearties! #WritingCommunity #pirate #amwriting #coverreveal #BookTwitter #TimeTravelAuthors
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1 year
When 16yo Maddy saves the vizier's son in Ancient Egypt, she breaks Time Travel Rule No.1-Don't mess with the timeline. Now a 17yo boy who should be dead is alive. And the rest...is no longer history. OUT NOW. At all major online bookshops. Or see To Buy links on my website.
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