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Parchment Place

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Parchment Place · 3W ago

Judging a book by its cover…

For the past half an hour I have been sitting here browsing through the Advanced Reading Copies (ARCs) And I suddenly noticed something that I was doing without even realising it. I was refusing to look at books whose covers didn’t catch my eye. Now, I don’t think I am necessarily judging a book by
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Parchment Place · 3W ago

Back on the wagon

Yes, you all read that correctly. I am officially back on the writing wagon – that same wagon I have been trying to climb back on for the past two months. However – introducing my new daughter to the world was a much more important job. But now that she is ‘sleeping like a baby’, [...]
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Parchment Place · 4W ago

Lucky seven…

Something different happened today in my blogging world. I was tagged in a Lucky Seven post by Melissa Pearl. This is a blogging game for authors that I have never heard of before, but one that I’m delighted to play. The rules are that you must post an excerpt from one of your books and this excerpt
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Parchment Place · 1M ago

In memory…

A good friend of mine wrote a lovely post – Lest We Forget in honour of Anzac day and her grandfather, and I thought that I would too. This is in memory of my grandfather, Sir Andrew McKee – a determined man who fought hard, and lived hard. While I will always miss you – I [...]
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Parchment Place · 1M ago

Having a little faith…

Something is once again stirring within me. I would like to say that it’s the ‘writing bug’… but it feels as though it’s more than that. It’s more like a primal urge that is getting my creative juices flowing again. The fact that our new daughter is starting to sleep now is probably another thing [.
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Parchment Place · 1M ago

Life as I know it

Well – this is a quick update on life at the moment. When I say quick – I really do mean quick! Abby is growing loads, and is flaming heavy to cart around. But she’s gorgeous – and loads of fun when she’s not yelling at me. My writing life has seriously come to a [...]
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Parchment Place · 2M ago

Introducing… the new addition

Everyone at Parchment Place is once again celebrating…  the long anticipated arrival of Bumpkin, who has officially been renamed Abigail  - or just Abby for short. I have no doubt in my mind that Abby’s journey into the world was much like everyone’s on this earth. She just followed the light, and h
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Parchment Place · 2M ago

The Importance of Support

I am very lucky to have some amazing people around me in my world. I’m not just talking about my writing world, but I am also talking about the friendships that I have developed over the years. There is something rather reassuring to know that you can bounce ideas off the people around you, and [...
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Parchment Place · 3M ago

The Seven Deadly Sins of Prologues

Reblogged from Kristen Lamb's Blog: To prologue or not to prologue? That is the question. The problem with the prologue is it has kind of gotten a bad rap over the years, especially with agents. They generally hate them. Why? In my opinion, it is because far too many writers don’t use prologues prop
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Parchment Place · 3M ago

How many drafts is really enough?

How long is a piece of string? I look at my manuscript, The Mediterranean Source, with a bit of uncertainty at the moment. A book that has been years in the making, and just recently, has had some pretty serious rewriting done on it. Admittedly, the rewriting has made it a lot stronger… but it [...]
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