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Kill your darlings: 5 tips for cutting and editing scenes you love
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Kill your darlings: 5 tips for cutting and editing scenes you love

Helena Fairfax16 Comments

Another month, and another of our authors’ Round Robins. This month we have another thought-provoking topic, this time set by author Marci Baun Deleting scenes: Do you ever delete scenes? When and why do you delete them? And what do you do with them? Do you save them? Or just toss them?  When I first…… Continue reading Kill your darlings: 5 tips for cutting and editing scenes you love

Helena Fairfax, Felicity at the Cross Hotel Essential tips for authors at a book-signing convention or lit fest #indieauthors
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Essential tips for authors at a book-signing convention or lit fest #indieauthors

Helena Fairfax16 Comments

Last month the UK Indie Lit Fest took place in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in the north of England. This author convention was a free event, with over 40 indie authors attending. The event included writing classes, author readings, activities for children, and the chance for readers to talk to best-selling authors around the world via…… Continue reading Essential tips for authors at a book-signing convention or lit fest #indieauthors