Desperate to market yourself but don't know where to start? Your prayers have been answered. Welcome to our new occasional series featuring geeky tips for the hapless writer trying to make an impact in a big, bad, distracted world.
Monday, 7 January 2013
Geek List for Writers : How to Create Infographics
By Candy Gourlay
Friday, 4 January 2013
Keep Calm It's Only Novel Panic
Guest Blogger
Here it comes again: my regular dose of ‘novel panic’, ‘novel angst’, ‘novel just not good enough, never going to be good enough, think I'll just give up and go back to doing normal things like sweeping up peas when they fall under the table and providing clean underwear for my children’.
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Who Won Our Christmas Raffle?
Thank you to all who visited our 12 Days of Christmas Blog Posts in the closing days of 2012.
As promised, we have put all the folks who kindly left us a comment into our raffle with two amazing books to win:
As promised, we have put all the folks who kindly left us a comment into our raffle with two amazing books to win:
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