Tag: writing
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Blogversary #8
It looks strange to celebrate a blogversary after a year like 2021. So many things happened in the last twelve months, and if I…
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Three for the Month (April 2021)
Again, a late summary of this month’s reading, due to work. Oh well, the pandemic certainly changed the way people work and the personal…
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A year like none other before.
…at least for what I can remember. My late grandmother, who lived through two World Wars, a Spanish flu, a Great Depression, the Holocaust,…
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Milford 2019
This week I am attending Milford Conference, the yearly gathering with other writers from the SFF community that takes place at Trigonos, Snowdonia (North…
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Summer 2019 Events
As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival,…
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Interview with Kelly Matsuura, Publisher and Editor of The Insignia Series Anthologies
I am thrilled to host this month an interview with Kelly Matsuura, the Publisher of the Insignia Series, anthologies of Asian SF and Fantasy. Who…
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(More) markets for microfiction
I have already written in the past about markets for microfiction (intended here as all the prose between 0 and 300 words) and compiled…
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Open Submission Calls – What Indie Presses Would Like to See
I had recently a chat with the owner and Editor-in-Chief of an award-winning, independent Scottish press, Luna Press Publishing. I asked a few questions regarding…
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Earthian Hivemind turns 5
Actually, it has turned five last week on 16th but, as it happens, I was neck-deep in preparing the submission filed for my non-fiction…
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NaNoWriMo and 2019 plans
November is, as always, the Nano-month par excellence -even though there are now NaNo-camps during the year, November remains the month when writing is…
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Best applications for writing
If you are like me, and writing is part of your full-time job and/or takes up all your free time, you might well regularly…
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Edinburgh Book Festival 2018
As every year, Edinburgh Book Festival is the writing event to look forward to in the summer. It is one of the largest public…
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Markets for your Haiku
If you like me love the short-short form both in fiction and poetry, you already know what haiku (and other short poetry forms, such…
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Pitch your novel. Best Twitter parties
If you have a complete (and polished) novel you want to find an agent and/or a publisher for, AND you’re NOT engaging in any…
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Blogiversary -Year 4
And here we are -four years of blogging, and the last one happened so quickly my head is spinning. Not all the plans I…
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Friday (writing) + (cheap) advice [or: how to safely kiss plague rats]
It is 1 December, it is Friday and what I have to do today is to mark dissertation proposals (I work in a university, after…
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My favourite books about writing
I had a conversation with a friend a few days ago and we spoke briefly about books for genre fiction writing. Both of us…
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News, November 2017
A few (good) news received in these first two weeks of the month: I have won another Honourable Mention in Writers of the Futures,…
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It’s this time of the year again (NaNoWriMo)
I believe everyone knows about NaNoWriMo, which stays for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual, Internet-based writing endeavour that happens in November. People…
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My author page is online
… about time, I know. It was on my 2017 new-blog-year resolutions (stated here), but for a reason or another, I have never fully…
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Heading to Milford – 9-16 September
Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together…
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Good venues for microfiction
If you -like me – love flash fiction in all its declinations, you would also especially enjoy microfiction, which is, in many aspects, comparable…
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On Writing – food for thought
I don’t often blog about writing, for many reasons (the main is: there are *hundreds* of people out there that do it far better…
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The blogs I read the most (my favourite? Or whatever you fancy calling them)
One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure…