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Tony’s Review: The Great Gatsby
3/5 Nick Carraway lives in a 1920s world outside of reality, a world of endless parties and flitting affairs, a world of the extremely rich…the richest of which is Jay Gatsby, a legendary party host...
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Tony’s Review: Unwholly by Neal Shusterman
4/5 In a world where unwinding – the dissolution of teenagers for organ replacement – is legal, a group of very different teenagers struggle to survive in any way they can. This is a sequel to the...
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Tony’s Writing Tips: Show-not-tell with dialogue
One of the things they always tell writers to do is show and not tell. “Don’t Tell Me the Moon Is Shining; Show Me the Glint of Light on Broken Glass” to paraphrase playwright Anton Chekov. Chekov was...
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Writing Tips: How to write a great author bio
This caught my eye today on the BookBaby blog – a nice resource for authors on writing, publishing, marketing and much more. Anyway, if you’re thinking of revising your author bio – or even just want...
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On coping with writer’s block (or the lies we tell ourselves along the way)
TonyT:Fantastic post, loved it. Beautifully written and eloquent. Originally posted on Black coffee and cigarettes: I haven’t written for a very long time. I joined a creative writing class a while ago...
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Tony’s Review: Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma
4/5 Lochan and Maya have been abandoned. Left to care for their three siblings by a drunken mother who’s out chasing men, a father on the other side of the planet, all they have is themselves. Lochan...
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Book Trailers – Worth it?
mel:Re-blogging Mel’s post from her author blog about ‘Book Trailers’ – have you got one? Do you think you need one? See what she has to say about them here. Originally posted on Mel Cusick-Jones: Book...
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Tony’s Review: Carrie, Stephen King
4/5 Bullied by her fundamentalist mother and outcast at school, Carrie White is slated to live a life of misery. Until she realises she’s telekinetic… I’ve read quite a few of Stephen King’s books,...
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Tony’s Writing Tips: The only rule of writing I know
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” – W. Somerset Maugham Maybe not, but there’s one rule I have discovered…almost by accident really. It’s going...
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Tony’s Tips: Explain yourself!
When you write a story, at some point, you’ll probably have to step out of the narrative and tell your readers what a piece of equipment or technology is, or give them some backstory. In literal terms,...
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Cover Reveal – Cirque de la Nuit
mel:My latest work update posted yesterday on my author blog, with cover reveal and blurb – take a look and let me know what you think of my latest WiP :) Originally posted on Mel Cusick-Jones: Latest...
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Indie Author Month is BACK!
OK – so anyone who pays much attention to what we do here :) will have noticed that our annual indie author month hasn’t happened in May this year, as it has since we started the blog in 2012. This is...
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New Release: Smother by Lindy Zart
USA Today bestselling author Lindy Zart contacted us to let us know about her latest release Smother. You won’t like me. I am not the nice girl. I am not your friend. I don’t care about you, but most...
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Cover Reveal…Lies You Tell by Mariah Kingsley
Today we’re featuring a cover reveal for author Mariah Kingsley of her latest book Lies You Tell. Look out for is, coming soon! Aubrey married the first man that she had ever loved. Robert was...
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Take Part! Our New Monthly Write-In Feature…
Are you up for a bit of a challenge? A little fun and sharing some creativity? Great! Then come and join us in our new monthly ‘write-in’ feature that will launch this coming Sunday and happen on the...
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Writing Tips: Tony Talbot: The Brand
When I started self-publishing back in 2008, I came across an interesting concept: The writer as a brand item and marketed as such. It seemed a little odd to me at the time, but I see the logic of it...
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Sunday Write-Up – May 2015
Thanks for joining us for the first Sunday Write-Up feature, I’m looking forward to seeing what people do with the prompts today :) Don’t forget to come back and link your post back to us here, so...
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Pitching Yourself to Book Festivals…
mel:Found a post on promoting/pitching yourself to book festivals – some great insider information and ideas for authors to consider. Originally posted on Mel Cusick-Jones: This isn’t really something...
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Tony’s Tech: A Front end for KindleGen
For those of you going, huh? at that title, you can skip this post. The Kindle authors out there can dig in and enjoy… Last year, I had to demonstrate to a small group of people the way to create a...
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Tony’s Writing Tips: Remember every scar
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” – Stephen King. I was e-mailing an Antipodean writing...
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