by Mel | Aug 6, 2010 | Writing
This week got away from me and I haven’t yet announced July’s contest winner! Bad Mel! Anyway, the lucky gal who gets the Dragon Variation by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is none other than Australia’s very own Golden Heart winner Kylie Griffin! (She...
by Mel | Aug 1, 2010 | Writing
>July is never a great time of year for me. Peak day job busy period keeps me on my toes, and it always seems like I blink and the month is gone. This year has proven to be no exception and here we are in August (which is yay for being the last month of winter and...
by Mel | Jul 23, 2010 | The biz, Writing
Sometime in late July 2001 I attended a talk at the Victorian Writers Centre given by Anne Gracie. I think she was pretty much the first real live author I’d met at that point. Fired up by what she had to say (and somewhat struck by the...
by Mel | Jul 11, 2010 | Writing
The revision is all finito. Let there be celebrations (or at least a day or two of mindless activities before we contemplate book 2!) My first for-an-editor revision done. Feels like a milestone somehow, even though it could yet come shooting back to me for another...
by Mel | Jul 8, 2010 | Writing
Lately I’ve been thinking a bit about my work and romance and the elements of a book that make it appealing to me. In particular, what makes a believable happy ending. When I first started writing, I was writing category and my books were mostly romantic...
by Mel | Jul 3, 2010 | Writing
I feel like I’ve got hold of the new shape of this book now. The weight of it is sitting right in my head and I can tilt it and turn it and see the whole picture nearly. Sometimes writing feels like hiking up a heavily wooded trail. You get glimpses of the...
