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5) Beginnings or How to Get People’s Attention by Colin Brush
‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell We’re just over the halfway point in my guide to writing blurbs and you’re probably wondering when we’re going to get around … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, book blurbs, books, colin brush, writing, Writing advice
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2) What’s the Story? by Colin Brush
The second in a series of how-to posts by Colin Brush ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ TV review of The Wizard … Continue reading
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Tagged book blurbs, books, colin brush, cover copy, publishing, writing
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1) How to Sell Your Book in a Few Words by Colin Brush
This is the beginning of a series of weekly how-to posts by Colin Brush. Follow this blog to get all the instalments. ‘If you think you have a book evolving, now is the time to write the flap copy – … Continue reading
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Tagged book blurbs, books, colin brush, cover copy, writing, Writing advice
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The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack
A hundred years ago, when I was a little girl (all right, the late 1970s), I used to draw Blake’s 7 stick man cartoons. Blake’s 7, you see, was my very favourite TV programme, and more than anything else I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blakes 7, Blakes Seven, Blakes7, books, Dr Una McCormack, Dr Who, fan fiction, Picard, Star Trek, television, tie-in novels, Una McCormack, writing
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How (Not) to Write a Steampunk Novel by Gaie Sebold
Originally posted on May 20, 2014 on Jacey Bedford’s blog To start with, I didn’t actually really intend to write what ended up as a fantasy Victorian spy adventure, with a trickster heroine, set partly in 19th century Shanghai. It … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Gaie Sebold, research, Shanghai Sparrow, steampunk, writing
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Books on Writing: What Writers Need (the Nitty-Gritty) by Tiffani Angus
I teach writing at the university level—BA, MA, and PhD. What this means is that in addition to my students having to write creatively they also have to write academically, usually in the form of an analysis of their creative … Continue reading
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Tagged books, books on writing, Creative Writing, reading, teaching writing, tiffani angus, writing, writing analysis
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Book Recommendations
Just in time for Christmas here are some book recommendations from Milford committee members past and present. They are books that we’ve read this year (not necessarily books published this year). Contributors: Karen Brenchley, Jacey Bedford, David Gullen, Jim Anderson, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Weir, Ann Leckie, Benedict Jacka, book recommendations, books, David Gullen, fantasy, Gareth Powell, inspiration, Jacey Bedford, Jim Anderson, Jodi taylor, Juliet McKenna, Karen Brenchley, Laura Anne Gilman, Maureen F McHugh, Michael Marshall Smith, Natasha Pulley, Neal Stephenson, Nicole galland, reading, Robert Cargill, Robert Jackson Bennett, science fiction, Sue Thomason, Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Dalrymple
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Happy Book Day to Me by Jacey Bedford
Rowankind’s publication date has been shunted forward to 27th November which means it’s out NOW. Today, in fact! Happy Book Day to me. You can buy it from that big store named after a South American river, or (depending on … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, books, critique, fantasy, Jacey Bedford, Psi-Tech trilogy, reading, Rowankind, science fiction, SF writers, trilogy, writing
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Traps of World Building by David Gullen
It occurred to me that the one great challenge of world-building is that you are, in fact, building a world. What to put in? What to leave out? I’ve recently been reading The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to becoming … Continue reading
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Tagged books, David Gullen, fantasy, less is more, science fiction, worldbuilding, writing
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