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No apologies: own your writing style
I recently read a blog post by Nora Roberts titled ‘How it all works’ where she addressed speculation that she had staff or an army of assistants. It’s not an entirely inappropriate assumption to make given Nora’s disturbing propensity to produce numerous books per year. If she had staff it…
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Light-hearted fiction with depth? You can’t be serious.
I’ve never held with the belief that a book or movie is unable to be both light-hearted and serious at the same time. Critics of chick-lit often suggest that it’s trite, frothy and predictable. And the minute you add humour and label something a romantic comedy, forget it, you can’t take it…
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The importance of the kiss, brought to you by The Flu
Only the other week I was lamenting that as a mother, you just don’t get ‘sick days.’ You nurse your child better when they are ill, but when you come down with something, you rely on mummy immunity to pull you through and just get on with it. Next time…
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Meet Mighty Max from The Boyfriend Sessions
Sometimes being a writer is real tough. Hours upon hours of editing until your eyes are so sore you can barely see straight. Days, weeks and sometimes months of angst while you try to work through a plot issue. It makes you wonder what you do it for. Last week…
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Radiant: do you believe in angels and demons? They believe in you.
My début novel, Radiant, a paranormal romantic suspense is currently available as an e-book on Amazon. This novel earned me a top ten finalist placing in The Romance Writers of Australia Emerald award 2013, and here’s what readers are saying about it: “Radiant is an on the edge of your seat…
Belinda Williams 