Writer Unboxed

So last Tuesday, the fourth Jax book came out. I won’t be spoiling anyone by admitting this particular novel ends on a rather spectacular cliffhanger. Donning my reader hat for a moment, I have a love / hate relationship with cliffhangers. Done right, they drive you mad with book lust, so you spend the interval [...]

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Therese here. Please welcome Margo Candela, author of the novel Good-Bye to All That, as our guest today at Writer Unboxed. She’s with us today to share some insights into–and perspective about–a genre that she loves, chick lit. Enjoy! The Evolution of Chick Lit I was introduced to chick lit, along with most of the [...]

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Social media success story! Even though The Kitchen Daughter doesn’t come out for months and months, I’ve enjoyed “meeting” and building relationships with other authors through Twitter, which is how this interview came to be. Stacey Ballis is a friend to WU and participated in Therese’s recent book giveaway, but our paths didn’t really cross [...]

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Therese here. Please welcome guest Stacey Ballis to Writer Unboxed! Stacey’s new book, Good Enough to Eat, releases in two days–September 7th. I’ve invited Stacey here today to share thoughts on her process and insights as a multi-published author. It’s a fab post. Enjoy! The Writing is in the Rewriting When people, upon finding out [...]

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Full disclosure: Elisabeth Weed is my agent. And she is a gem. Though it’s a definite plus that she’s always available and helpful–not just to me, but to her other authors–it’s not exactly fair to keep her all to myself. If you have a manuscript you feel might be right for Elisabeth (read on to [...]

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By the time this gets posted, I’ll be on a trip to attend two speculative fiction conventions, Au Contraire in New Zealand and AussieCon 4 in Melbourne. I have a busy schedule at both, appearing on panels, giving a workshop and fronting up for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards, for which my novel Heart’s Blood [...]

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Have you ever read an action packed thriller that left you breathless yet unmoved? Like a roller coaster, a thrilling ride but one that doesn’t seem to mean anything? Conversely, have you ever read a literary novel that was fatty with emotional nuance but that couldn’t run ten yards if it tried? All talk and [...]

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