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What publishers are looking for. What authors need to know
​I have been doing a bit of a roadshow presenting some new authors to publishers both in locally and globally. I also use the opportunity...
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May 24, 20174 min read
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Editing your book _round two
Now if you have been following my steps you will have completed step 1. That means you have printed and marked up your entire manuscript...
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Feb 27, 20172 min read
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How to improve your first draft (and second draft and 7th)
OK so this post is assuming that you have competed first draft of your book. It is going to take you through the next few steps that you...
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Feb 26, 20174 min read
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How to write a smoking hot author blurb
​A smoking author biography is an essential part of a book proposal. Writing a good one - that sums up your personality and book in a...
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Jan 26, 20174 min read
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FEC vs Taxol. No contest!
I started off on three rounds of FEC and its pretty simple to sum it all up in a word. Revolting. By the last round I honestly thought it wa
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Oct 27, 20162 min read
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Just getting to Greece is a journey
So we arrived after a mammoth 2-day journey. 8 hours in Dubai airport (never again it wasn’t terrible as we slept, but just too long). Then
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Feb 6, 20144 min read
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A year after my near death experience
By Sunday I was in a coma in ICU and on a life support machine that kept me breathing. I stayed in the coma for a month
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Jan 5, 20144 min read
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It was a mixed marriage
I had a murky idea about what family life was going to be like. I hadn’t thought about it a great deal, but I did have a few ideas: I though
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Jul 20, 20093 min read
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Romance 101? No chance with young kids
From stylish, successful career gal and sex-bomb wife to wobbly new mom in 9 short months, Your Pregnancy Magazine talks to Sarah Bullen
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Jul 19, 20085 min read
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The Hip Mom's Swan Song
One minute you are pouring over Prada pumps, PDA in one hand and a vodka Martini in the other, the next minute you are freezing your breast
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Jul 18, 20082 min read
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New Mommy Myths
##Only the first six weeks are tough:
Motherhood is rougher than a cowboy’s hand but it can be as fun. Having kids is hard going. You just
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Jul 2, 20082 min read
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The Dalai Lama divorce code
​If you are dealing with an acrimonious split, you are going to have to call on all your inner calm to separate emotion from logistics....
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May 30, 20088 min read
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If You Have to, Leave in Style
​Instead of getting married again, I am going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house. – Rod Stewart The first step out...
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May 23, 20086 min read
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We have a no-sex deal
​Stacy was our third child in six years. On her first birthday, my wife told me that she didn’t want to have sex any more. ‘Not ever...
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May 16, 20084 min read
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Romance 101 - is it all over?
This second book Romance 101 started as a honest-to-goodness search for a way out of what I saw as the unbearable straitjacket of suburbia.
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Apr 2, 20084 min read
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