Someone: So, what do you write?Que??
Me: Mostly fiction for teenagers.
Someone: Oh! Mills and Boon! How marvellous!
Sometimes I think I must be whistling in a tornado.
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"THE CRABBIT OLD BAT'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED" - PLEASE NOTE that you are on the OLD address. See note below...
MAIN ARTICLES ON THIS BLOG
- Acquisitions meetings
- Agent advice and some random writing tips
- Agent or not?
- Agents - you've got to love 'em (2)
- Agents, you've got to love 'em (1)
- Anti-guff rant postponed by pleonasms
- Are publishers ever wrong?
- Are your really ready to be published?
- Behaving badly at your launch
- Beware of praise
- Book launches
- Brilliant lessons by video
- Can you learn to write?
- Certifying the death of your WIP
- Checklist for publication
- Common mistakes
- Common mistakes when writing for teenagers
- Common words
- Common words - PS
- Covering letter mistake: 1 - naivete
- Covering letter mistake: 2 - drugs
- Covering letters, Part 1
- Covering letters, Part 2
- Dealing with taxi-drivers (funny story)
- Deciphering rejection letters
- Defence of authors
- Define a teenage novel
- Delusions of ability
- Edit, edit, edit: then edit again
- Everything unpublished authors need to know
- Fight for writers' rights
- How to be a really nice publishable author
- How to make a publisher say yes
- I wrote it - I have to MARKET it too??
- Inexcusable dimness
- Inexcusable ignorance
- Is your writing hot enough?
- Just one opinion?
- Mistake 1: Voice
- Mistake 2: Pace
- Money matters - the mad maths of royalties
- NANOWRIMO - WHY? BECAUSE ...
- Not getting published (again)
- Novel structure - an expert lesson
- Picture book perfection
- Pigeon-holes (don't fall out of)
- Pointy thought 1: Effort required
- Pointy Thought 2: Ideas
- PS re Marketing
- PS re Synopses
- PS re writers' rights
- Pseudo-agents - beware
- Secret of publicity
- Self-publishing - what about it?
- Sensible questions
- Shocking new threat to books
- Show, don't tell
- Show, don't tell - Part 2
- Slow death by coffee ... (funny story)
- Synopsis - how to write one
- Things not to say to agent / publisher
- Tip, Odd thing and Question
- Tips for Submissions: 1
- Tips for submissions: 2 - Covering letters
- Tips for Submissions: 3 - Rules
- Toffee is not a way to get published
- Truth Hurts
- When to give up (on this book)
- Where do you get your ideas?
- Who knows better? Reader or writer?
- Why has a publisher not said yes?
- Why is crap published?
- Why wasn't I published for so long?
- Work avoidance strategies
- Worst query - how bad can you be?
- Worst query letter results
- Writer's block and apology
- Writing for teenagers - notes
- Writing in a recession
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Please don't ask me to ...
read your work. Don't tempt me with money or undying gratitude. Even - and it pains me to say this - with the promise of a new pair of glorious boots.