Like a lot of authors, I listen to music when I’m writing. It’s a way of short-circuiting the internal editor, which has trouble shutting up. When writing first draft, I don’t want my always-vigilant editor yammering at me about how I just inserted another Oxford comma, that the sentence I just wrote is passive and […]
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Part 1: Who Gives A Crap? This post is part of Inbox Sanity, A Geek Girl’s Guide series. Part 1: Who Gives A Crap? Part 2: Empty Inbox, Always. Part 3: Working the System. Part 4: Filtering I. Part 5: Filtering II. Part 6: Multiple Email Addresses. Part 7: Big, Sick-Making Inboxes. _______________ If I
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Google does some pretty amazing things with the data it has access to. I’ve heard some people jokingly refer to it as “The Google”, but sometimes it feels like it might be heading for omnipotence and godhead… Here’s a few hacks that you will find helpful for your reading. Show Me A Video If you
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As I promised, this is my final reminder for those of you who read the blog via a reader or email to change your subscription over to the new service. As of tomorrow, everyone will be moved automatically, but your opportunity to score a free book will be gone. I am about to move all
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I am currently working through every single page on the site and updating links, images and much, much more. As there’s over 500 pages, this is a long term project. I dig at it a bit each week, and as I post articles to the articles pages, I put up a post here to let
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I got a lovely email from a reader the other day saying how much they enjoy my Science Fiction Romance books. It was the first time I’ve had direct reader feedback that the SFR titles are being well received, although the reviews for the six SFR titles I have out already are very encouraging. I
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I grew up in wheatbelt territory in Western Australia. It was flat countryside that, to me, was very boring. Gum trees and spinifex, and tea trees everywhere. The type of trees that grow in Western Australia are unique. Show me a photo of a piece of countryside and I know it’s Australia, because of the
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…in fact, if you’re reading this post anywhere other than right on my site, with the red and black band at the top, then you should know that I am about to move all RSS and Email subscribers to the blog to a commercial blog feed. I have been using a free Google-based feed service
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Yesterday’s Legacy was officially released last Thursday and there’s already some great reviews. One of the trends I’m noticing in the reviews are lots of descriptors for the hero, Jonah: rebel a real bum a rebel, troublemaker, and someone who can’t be trusted, a free thinker slacker doesn’t quite seem to fit into society a
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If you read the reviews on Amazon and elsewhere for Sabrina’s Clan, which came out last Thursday, there is a lot of weeping and rending of garments because it is the last book in the series. I’ve also had some “interesting” email direct from readers demanding requesting I write more books in the series. This
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