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Ocean of Dust: Cover reveal!

I'm really excited to reveal the cover for my upcoming OCEAN OF DUST, which will hit all good ebook retailers sometime in November. Watch this space. I won't say anything else, since the cover speaks for

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Seeking opinions is dangerous to your sanity

We all seek opinions about everything, every day, either at home, school or work. We ask friends and family, we ask acquaintances on Facebook or other social media. Do you like this? What should I wear?

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Guest Post: Being Married to a Writer

Since my patient and wonderful wife puts up with my hours at the keyboard, and my mood swings between excitement and hatred of my work, it seems only fair to allow her time at the “mic”. This

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What is a bestseller?

I've noticed a growing number of author Twitter profiles with the word bestseller or best-selling, even new authors. This made me think: Just what is a bestseller and are these folks being optimistic,

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Can you write two books at once?

Can you write more than one book at a time? I asked myself this recently. I have a bundle of outlines for books that I want to write, and not surprisingly when writing on my current book slows down, I

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Blog Year 1: My top 10 posts

I started this blog one year ago. My first post was September 12, 2011. Since then I've written 54 posts. I thought it might be fun to look back and select my top 10 favourites, so here they are (in chronological

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Do you have a niche?

Most non-writers assume that to be a successful author one must write New York Times bestsellers, or contemporary novels that appeal to all readers. Of course, we know this isn’t the case. Certainly,

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Self-publishing is NOT easy!

Some pundits have said that self-publishing is the easy way out, for someone who can't handle a “real” publishing contract. Well I'm not going to go into that open-ended debate here, but I

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The final read through

So you’ve written your book and revised/edited it, probably more times that you can count. Then you sent it to a professional editor (if not, you should), and incorporated their changes. Finally, you’ve

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My Inspiration for "Ocean of Dust"

Hello all, Today I'm guest posting over on fellow writer Lisa Orchard's blog, where she has kindly allowed me to talk about the inspiration behind Ocean of Dust, my debut YA fantasy that I hope to publish

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