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Predictions for 2020 – Publishing Trends
I’ve been looking into my crystal ball (or my coffee mug if you want to be literal) and here are my top tips for likely trends in fiction publishing in 2020. My guesses are probably wrong, though. I had no idea that reverse harem would explode into the paranormal romance scene over the last couple…
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New Release: First Magic
First Magic is out today! Amy’s life has gotten even more complicated with her father’s reappearance. Plus, there’s the militia and their demands, the Faerene’s response, and … wait for it … fiery butterflies of death. Grab your copy on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VW5NWTN Amy’s father is alive, but can she trust him? His human allies…
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Planning For 2020
2020 is going to be an awesome year! *shakes pixie dust everywhere* At least I hope it will. Amazon has just changed its rules for self-published authors (people like me), so that we can now put books up for pre-order a year in advance. It used to be three months. After shrieks of excitement. Okay,…
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Bonza’s Billabong – A Short Story
I was looking through some old files and found a forgotten story from 2007. I’ve been writing science fiction for a while, sometimes stories are odder (or should that be Ocker? 😉 ) than others. [Ocker means extremely Australian.] Bonza’s Billabong Bonza Duke lived in Red Gum Lane in the messiest shack behind the leaning-ist…
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Cross-Genre Intrigue
Cross-genre books are great fun to read, and challenging to write! Novels fall into broad categories, or genres: romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, literary, etc. Then within those genres there are varyingly popular and established subgenres. For example, mystery has hard-boiled, cozy, police, thriller, supernatural, etc. Genres are more than a means of categorising books.…