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Showing posts with label Maureen Lynas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maureen Lynas. Show all posts
Friday, 23 December 2016

Happy Holidays from Notes from the Slushpile!

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2016. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch...
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Thursday, 1 December 2016

A Silly Tale From the Slushpile by Em Lynas

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Starring Em Lynas as The Author Many publishers as The Acquisitions Monster Candy Gourlay as The Internet Fairy Amber Caraveo as ...
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Notes from the Critique Group - Meet the Agents! by Em Lynas

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On Saturday members of our SCBWI BI York critique group headed up to Seven Stories in Newcastle for a mini Agents Party arranged by our lo...
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Monday, 18 July 2016

On Being Edited by Maureen Lynas

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I’m currently experiencing my first experience of being edited by an experienced editor (Agent Amber) and it has been an extremely interest...
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Monday, 4 July 2016

Notes From a Critique Group by Em Lynas

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Picture Book Tips for Me We’ve had an influx of new picture book writers to our critique group in York and, as I began my author jour...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

Yay! Whoo Hoo! And Whoopy Do!

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by Maureen Lynas  Who is celebrating!  I may be odd but I love going to the tip and on Friday our car was packed with bags of shredding...
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Monday, 25 January 2016

Notes from the Critique Group - Writers' Tics Uncovered.

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by Maureen Lynas One of the great things about attending a crit group is realising that you and other writers have ‘tics’ in common. B...
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Monday, 16 November 2015

Notes from the Critique Group - The Gap

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by Maureen Lynas This was a very interesting discussion at the SCBWI BI York critique group involving: THE GAP The space that's le...
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Monday, 21 September 2015

Notes from the Critique Group - Awesome First Lines

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By Maureen Lynas The second post highlighting literary issues raised in critique groups. This came up recently at our SCBWI BI critique...
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Monday, 17 August 2015

Notes from the Critique Group

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By Maureen Lynas When Candy said - Would you like to start blogging on the slushpile again? - I said yes immediately. Then spent two ...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Edit Your Books on the Kindle, says Maureen

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Last week I discovered Miriam Halahmy’s post on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure about using her kindle as an editing tool. Using the...
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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Our Writing Year That Was

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In which we slushpilers look back at our writing highlights for 2013. Teri Terry | Maureen Lynas | Candy Gourlay | Addy Farmer   ...
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Sunday, 22 December 2013

Hark! Season's Greetings from the Slushpile

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Hang on, smile, keep your back straight and keep going into 2014! (left to right) Maureen Lynas, Addy Farmer, Teri Terry, Candy Gourlay an...
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Monday, 24 June 2013

Maureen says, 'Is There a Book Lurking in Your Head?'

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by Maureen Lynas I'm writing a book that I didn't want to write. And I'm illustrating it.  And it's all come as a...
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