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The Madame of Covent Garden’s Gin Lane Salon

By lindacollison|2014-10-20T16:45:52-07:00October 20th, 2014|Categories: How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors|Tags: 18th century life, Blogging, How we Write, writing process|

Catherine Curzon is the writer behind the personae Madame Gilflurt,[...]

How to write a KILLER query

By lindacollison|2014-10-05T23:00:32-07:00October 5th, 2014|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: literary agents, query letters, writing process|

In this golden age of indie-publishing some writers still[...]

Listening for Redfeather – free audio download

By lindacollison|2014-09-27T11:16:12-07:00September 27th, 2014|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, music, YA|Tags: Aaron Landon, audiobooks, Coming-of-Age fiction, giveaways, literary fiction, Looking for Redfeather, YA fiction|

Storytelling isn't just for bedtime and this ain't Mom reading[...]

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Coming of Age On the Road

By lindacollison|2014-09-22T12:21:54-07:00September 22nd, 2014|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: audiobooks, coming of age, coming of age movies, growing up in the 21st century, on the road, YA vs Coming of Age|

Coming of age is a term that for me encompasses[...]

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The scatology of finding the heart of your story

By lindacollison|2014-09-07T13:57:42-07:00September 7th, 2014|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing|Tags: Looking for Redfeather, writing process|

Being a writer sometimes feels like a cross between an[...]

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It’s all about Theme

By lindacollison|2014-08-10T20:07:35-07:00August 10th, 2014|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: Aaron Landon, audiobooks, Looking for Redfeather, theme in fiction, writing process, YA fiction|

Characters hook us, plot compels us to turn the pages,[...]

Chesapeake Writers Conference 2014

By lindacollison|2014-07-14T15:57:23-07:00July 14th, 2014|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: Chesapeake Writers Conference, Writers conference|

My reflections on the 2014 Chesapeake Writers Conference In a[...]

Writers Conferences — Worth it?

By lindacollison|2014-07-07T06:18:51-07:00July 7th, 2014|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: Chesapeake Writers Conference, writing process|

"Who here has been to a writers conference before?" Matt[...]

How We Write: Getting published – in a science journal

By lindacollison|2014-07-15T01:34:28-07:00June 16th, 2014|Categories: How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, memoir|

a memoir by Martin Evans "Publish or perish!". The warning[...]

Writing the next book

By lindacollison|2014-06-09T13:04:51-07:00June 9th, 2014|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Surgeon's Mate, writing process|

Writing the first book is hard. Writing the next book[...]

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