by Mel | Apr 12, 2010 | Life, Writing
>Yes, I am indeed alive. Bad blogger. But I have been suffering from a horrible cold which decided it should bring its friend razorblade throat and consequently have done little worthy of blogging for a week. Catalogues of pills and potions and tissue count are not...
by Mel | Apr 5, 2010 | Writing
>Hope everyone has been had a good weekend.I’ve drawn the winner of my March contest and it’s Jo Mc!Jo, contact me at mel @ mjscott.net (without the spaces) with your details and Sunshine will be winging its way to you. If Jo doesn’t contact me by...
by Mel | Mar 28, 2010 | The biz, Writing
>This week is always a big week in the romance writing world because the RITA and Golden Heart finalists are announced. The RITA and Golden Heart awards are run by the Romance Writers of America and are essentially the Oscars for published and unpublished romance...
by Mel | Mar 21, 2010 | The biz, Writing
So I thought I’d keep a record of when various things happen between getting the call and my first book actually hitting the shelves. With the caveat that every publisher is slightly different, so this is how it works with my editor (Jessica Wade), my agent...
by Mel | Mar 13, 2010 | Tech-o-drama, Writing
>Thanks to the gods of communications who decreed that fixing my landline = breaking my adsl I am without Internet at home and can only get online via the iPhone (have I mentioned how much I love my iPhone?) So I’ll be tweeting a bit and checking emails but...
by Mel | Mar 10, 2010 | Writing
Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve posted a quick teaser blurb for Shadow Kin on my website. Hope you like it! And now, having violated the pages before other stuff rule, must knuckle down to do my pages for the night….hopefully Write or Die and...