Beautiful Books is a linkup hosted by Cait @ Paper Fury and Sky @ Further Up and Further In. It’s aimed at writers so we can answer the questions about our characters and our books. It’s designed to help you get to know your book better! (And also give your followers a sneak peek of your works-in-progresses.) BeautifulContinue reading “Beautiful Books November 2016”
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Should authors produce similar content?
This was one of my problems when I first published an adult novel and then switched to Young Adult. Branding Should authors produce the same kinds of stories? Personally I loved reading Maria V Snyder’s Poison Study series and then the Healer series and finding them both basically the same kind of story, with theContinue reading “Should authors produce similar content?”
Write What You Know: Knowing More Than You Put On The Page
As a writer, I feel the need to really know my characters, their situations, their props and settings. For The Edge of Darkness, that wasn’t so hard. It was largely a made-up world, set in deep space on a spaceship and the weapons used were also made up. Internet-Based Research I did some research onContinue reading “Write What You Know: Knowing More Than You Put On The Page”
Beautiful People May 2016
Beautiful People is a linkup hosted by Cait @ Paper Fury and Sky @ Further Up and Further In. It’s aimed at writers so we can answer the questions about our characters and our books. It’s designed to help you get to know your book better! (And also give your followers a sneak peek of your works-in-progresses.) BeautifulContinue reading “Beautiful People May 2016”
Diversity in Books: Why It’s Important and Why I Write It
#weneeddiversebooks I’ve published two full-length novels and both of them contain people of colour as either the main character or the love interest(s). In The Edge of Darkness, my protagonist Max(ine) is Filipino. I consciously made the decision to write her as non-white building on my father’s experience of being the son of immigrants to Australia,Continue reading “Diversity in Books: Why It’s Important and Why I Write It”
Lissa Bilyk 