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I have a problem with the advice from the mainstream publishing/writing world. The dogma that surrounds the convention of how a book should be written stifles creativity of authors. As a writer, I want to create something that appeals to me and hope it also appeals to...

As mentioned in a previous blog there are many Genres in which an author chooses to write. I have here an explanation by Author Dean Jones on one of his books, he has four that are available, I have also read this book and it is very interesting to get the background...

When I first launched my book around 18 months ago I wandered into the weird and wonderful world of bloggers. What a strange place that was. I asked one I met at the time who was extremely helpful, to write something about blogging for me and here is what she has to...

Are Genres that authors write in a personal choice or is it just something that happens to them as the story unfurls? I have asked a few of my author friends to tell me what they have written and to give a bit of background to their stories and themselves. The first...

The next foray into different Genres is with Catherine Mcarthy, she grew up in the industrial valleys of South Wales where she went on to teach in primary education for almost three decades. Having been ‘shown the light’ by her mother, who had the tradition of oral...

Writing a book is not something everyone dreams of doing. But for those of us that do, it can seem a pretty daunting task. But when it’s there inside you, there sometimes is little choice but to just start. Since I started to write and publish, the questions I have...