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Guest Post: How to Write a 600 Page Novel Without Losing Your Mind by PD Alleva
Before sitting down to write a 600-page novel, the first thing you need to do is ask yourself what the hell is wrong with you. Then, scrub your brain with Pine-Sol and a Brillo pad because you’re going to need a clean brain before filling it with so many little nuances, characters, and plot twists…
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Guest Post: The Forefather of British Fantasy by Joseph Sale
Born in 1552, in London, he served as a young man as a secretary to the Bishop of Rochester, the Earl of Leicester, and later Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Along the way, he authored several pastoral works. Aged 38, he was brought before Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Walter Raleigh to…
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Guest Post: by Valinora Troy
WHEN Iseult asked me what inspired my sentient diamonds and the talking canoe character in my children’s fantasy, I was really stuck. Saying they were “just there” didn’t seem much of an answer (I gave it anyway). Shouldn’t an author know where their ideas come from? I decided I better look at the main story…
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Guest Post by Lindsay J Sedgwick
‘For forty odd years in this noble profession I’ve harboured a guilt and my conscience is smitten So here is my slightly embarrassed confession I don’t like to write but I love to have written.’ – Michael Kanin While I can absolutely empathise – there is something so satisfying to finish a piece of writing,…
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Guest Post: The 5 Books that made Whitesands Live and Breathe by Johann Thorsson
Skull Session by Daniel Hecht This is the book that got me writing. It implanted an idea for a novel in my head and after the idea formed it was like I had to write it to excorcise the idea. In Skull Session we meet a man who has Tourette’s. The drugs he takes to…
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Guest Post: Rose’s Gold by WB Welch
WB Welch here! I want to start this post by thanking Iseult for having me as a guest and for taking the time to read Rose’s Gold prior to its release. I’m excited to be here and excited to talk a little more about my latest novella. (Giveaway being announced below, but don’t be naughty…
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Guest Post: How to Enjoy your Writing Gauntlet Journey by Hayley Reese Chow
How to Enjoy Your Writing Gauntlet Journey (Or any journey, really) One of the questions I see asked a lot in the writing community is: How do you write through the doubt? Through the rejections? Through the bad reviews? Would you keep writing even if you knew you’d never be published? Even if no one…
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Guest Post: How I Learned to Love Rescue Dogs by E C Bell
How I learned to love rescue dogs. I grew up on a farm where dogs worked, and were definitely not pets. Then one the day Mom took us all to the SPCA. (5 kids in a station wagon, can you imagine?) I think she was taking cats in for adoption, because people dropped them off…