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Posted on 11 Feb 202311 Feb 2023

Organising an author reading event

Eight months ago I began this process. Sydney WorldPride was asking for submissions for what seemed like their fringe festival component known as Pride Amplified. To be featured in the print edition of their festival guide, I had to submit the many things they asked for by mid year. So, recovering from Covid, I began …

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Posted on 22 Jan 20236 Jan 2023

Writing Tin Men and Scarecrows – Part 1

I'm halfway through the first draft. But I've just changed the text from past tense, third person limited, to present tense, first person multi point of view. While I was reading Holden Sheppard's The Brink, I was taken by how personal his book felt with different characters narrating in the here and now. My gut …

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Posted on 8 Jan 202311 Dec 2022

Book Review: Johnno, David Malouf

"We don't have the characters now that we had in the past." That was said by a work colleague back in the 90s who was talking about how younger generations didn't have adventures any more, like people had in the past. So, they were watered down versions of themselves. They hadn't built themselves to be …

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Posted on 17 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

Feedback from my Writers Group

Recently, I searched for a writers group. I wanted one with writers more experienced than me, and I now meet monthly with a group that includes two screenwriters with three decades of experience each, and a published non-fiction author. I submitted the first two chapters of my current WiP for review. I hate anyone reading …

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Posted on 3 Dec 202215 Nov 2022

My first novel is 10 years old!

Drama Queens with Love Scenes is a decade old. My tale of two friends who end up in the theatre district of the Afterlife went through eight drafts before Charles River Press initially published it in December 2012. So, on this very important milestone, I thought I'd share ten facts about my first novel. 1. …

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Posted on 20 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

It takes years to write a novel

Ten years ago I attended a workshop at the Sydney Writer’s Festival. The author gave us an insight to the industry, but the most important thing I learnt at this session was the art of letting your manuscript rest between drafts. I mean, really rest. Not a couple of weeks, but at least three months. …

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Posted on 2 Oct 202214 Sep 2022

Book Review – Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

This is a meditation on identity. Or perhaps it's a meditation on finding your identity. Whichever, it is a meditative experience. Omar Sakr's other published works are poetry. Son Of Sin is his first novel and his prose reflects his poetic style. For example, this is a description of a sunset: "...the sun was losing …

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Posted on 18 Sep 20223 Sep 2022

Plotting using the Snowflake Method – An Update

I previously spoke about the Snowflake Method in this blog. At the time I was working on a Space Opera but for my own reasons, that project has been put on hold. A contemporary novel has taken it's place. And I've now had the chance to use this plotting and characterisation method for longer than …

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Posted on 4 Sep 202225 Aug 2022

What should I write next?

I had this dilemma recently. I began a new book in a genre which had me intrigued - The Space Opera. I have character notes which include motivations, goals, conflicts and epiphanies. I have an interesting plot, and extended story lines from each character's point of view. Then we made a sudden trip north to …

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Posted on 31 Aug 202229 Aug 2022

Virtual Insanity – Release Day Post

A guy told me he loved books which are part of a series. He just bought a copy of Social Media Central from me at a book con. That novel clearly states it is TAYLeR Book One on the cover, but at the time, little progress had been made on the sequel. Social Media Central …

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VIRTUAL INSANITY – TRAILER

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THE MIDNIGHT MAN – AUTHOR READING

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WINTER MASQUERADE – TRAILER

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FUy2Zj9ulRQ

SOCIAL MEDIA CENTRAL – TRAILER

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DRAMA QUEENS WITH LOVE SCENES – TRAILER

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DRAMA QUEENS AND ADULT THEMES – TRAILER

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NATE AND THE NEW YORKER – TRAILER

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THE MIDNIGHT MAN

WINTER MASQUERADE

SOCIAL MEDIA CENTRAL

VIRTUAL INSANITY

ACTORS AND ANGELS – BOOK 1

ACTORS AND ANGELS – BOOK 2

ACTORS AND ANGELS – BOOK 3

MIDNIGHT ANGEL

NATE AND CAMERON – BOOK 1

NATE AND CAMERON – BOOK 2

NATE AND CAMERON – IN PRINT!

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