Elevating Your Writing: The Intersection of Creativity and Technical Editing Introduction Elevating your Writing is an art form that transcends mere communication. It’s a dance between creativity and technical precision—a delicate balance that separates good writing from exceptional writing. In this article, we explore how these two seemingly divergent paths Read more
Crafting a revision routine that leverages AI without disrupting your creative momentum requires intention, boundaries, and repeatable rituals. This article lays out a weekly structure you can adopt, explains how to allocate AI tasks across the week, shows how to protect creative writing time, and offers concrete prompts, checkpoints, and Read more
How to safely use AI as an author, and should you? Here are some reasons for and against, to be an informed author. Safe uses Or safe-ish? A brainstorming tool for character prompts, setting ideas, plot twists, and scene starters if you are stuck. One example is plotting. When you Read more
The Art of Precision: Fine-Tuning Your Manuscript with Expert Proofreading So you’re considering expert proofreading. In the grand concert hall of literature, where words resonate like piano notes, authors compose symphonies of prose. Just as a pianist meticulously tunes each key, writers must fine-tune their manuscripts to achieve literary harmony. Read more
Creative writing update. Why dream when autumn is this great … Cover update! I commissioned a new one for A Friendship of Thistles and have updated the description on Amazon to help people find it. Seems to be working as immediately had six sales and a new review. I shared Read more
A Friendship of Thistles … I’m clearly not focused on self-promotion, as my newest book was published in May and I haven’t posted here about it yet! I am also offering a fiction-related giveaway here. Or get your paperback/ebook copy here for the US, and here for the UK. The Read more
Friendship(s) come in many packages. Once of my best friends being writing. And the time has arrived for my next publication! Read a sample or buy it now. A Friendship of Thistles: book summary Read with a friend! A Friendship of Thistles is THE book to read with your closest Read more
I received a lovely present in the post today: a book! Not just any book, but a gift from one of my clients. Very charming of Roobens to bother to send me a copy with a small note of thank you for helping him proofread the final version. The book Read more
My Beauty and the Beast retelling is available here My most recent book has been four years in the making. It was at the start of my PhD in 2012 when I moved to Warwick University that I wrote a few pages about Rose (initially the central character of the Read more