Trials of a wanna-be-published writer

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Cover reveal - Death Before Daylight by Shannon A Thompson

Cover reveal – Death Before Daylight by Shannon A Thompson

 I am once again honoured to take part in the cover reveal for Shannon and her awesome Timely Death Trilogy. I could talk the hind legs off a donkey about how highly I rate Shannon as an author, but I’ll let her do the talking as she does it so much more eloquently than I, click here if you’d like to read my review of the book.

Letter from author, Shannon A. Thompson

It’s here! It’s here! The…

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Thoughts for Friday - 8th May 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 8th May 2015

My new job role has seen me travel extensively across the country for the last few weeks. My final destination for April was a town called Burgess Hill, not too far from Brighton, a place which is a lot of fun when the weather is warm and the sun is shining and less so when it’s cold, windy, and raining.

I left early on the Monday and had assumed that the journey would take perhaps 90 minutes by…

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Thoughts for Friday - 1st May

Thoughts for Friday – 1st May

Can it really be a month since I took on my new role?

It seems as if life has been passing me by at warp-speed these last few weeks and I can honestly say that I have woken up some mornings and wondered not only what day of the week it was, but which city I was in, too. If I thought I’d moved fast in the past, the last month has shown me that time waits for no man (or woman).

My more experienced…

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Cover reveal - Seconds Before Sunrise by Shannon A Thompson

Cover reveal – Seconds Before Sunrise by Shannon A Thompson

I am delighted to be able to reveal the next cover in The Timely Death Trilogy: Seconds Before Sunrise!

Regular readers of my blog will know what a huge fan of Shannon I am and so I shall let her do the talking (my original review of the book can be found here):

Shannon A Thompson:

The Timely Death Trilogy began as one teenager’s nightmare and morphed into a real-life dream of authorship. The…

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Thoughts for Friday - 24th April 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 24th April 2015

Last week’s post saw Trials of a Wanna-Be Published Author reach a very special landmark:

200 posts!

I’m not sure which is more surprising, the fact that I have managed to come up with 200 posts, or the fact that people are still reading them. Let’s be honest, I think I came across as a little too earnest in my early posts and looking back on them, it does make me cringe a little. Thankfully (or…

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Thoughts for Friday - 17th April 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 17th April 2015

It may come as a shock to some of you to discover that I am a T.I.T.

Miss Loveton, stop that sniggering!

Sadly for any men reading my blog, I am not going to write a post on breasts (that may come later…) I am, for want of a better acronym, a ‘teacher in training’.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that my life had just got a whole lot busier and it is my ‘teacher in training’ status that accounts for…

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Thoughts for Friday - 10th April 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 10th April 2015

In preparation for my new job role, I booked my car in for a service at a local garage. I asked them to make sure that the vehicle was in good condition and would get me through another 10,000 miles of motoring. I made it clear that I will soon be driving up and down the country on a regular basis and that I simply MUST be able to rely on my car to get me from one place to another.

I’ll admit…

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Thoughts for Friday - 3rd April 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 3rd April 2015

As anyone who runs a blog knows, keeping a regular posting schedule, dropping by and commenting on the posts of others, as well as answering comments left on your own posts is a time consuming business. Most of us have busy lives and/or full time jobs as well as trying to keep up with everything happening on WordPress, and unless you’re very lucky, keeping your blog alive takes time and…

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A Friend Indeed

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Kate Loveton once again asked me to guest-blog for her on Odyssey of a Novice Writer while she took a well-deserved vacation.

It took a lot of willpower, but I managed to refrain from any double entendres or smutty innuendo…

I hope you enjoy…

Originally posted on Odyssey of a Novice Writer:

I have once again been asked by the lovely Kate Loveton to guest blog on her site. One…

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Thoughts for Friday - 27th March 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 27th March 2015

This week’s post may be shorter than my usual weekly contribution, due to the fact that I have been struck down by a humdinger of a cold.

Those of you who have followed my blog throughout the last few years or so will know that, almost two years ago, the mighty Heather B Costa was felled by a flu-related virus of mammoth proportions, and all due to the fact that some butt-scratching, beer-bellied…

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Thoughts for Friday - 20th March 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 20th March 2015

Fear not, I am not about to subject you to a post about back passages (as suggested by Snakes in the Grass), mainly because I have not had enough time to research the topic this week. That doesn’t mean to say that I won’t find time in the next few weeks to cover such and interesting subject…

Lack of time has been something of an issue for me over the last couple of weeks. Why does life always…

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Minutes Before Sunset Cover Reveal - Shannon A Thompson

Minutes Before Sunset Cover Reveal – Shannon A Thompson

Regular readers of my blog will be aware that Shannon A Thompson (a young author who I am a huge fan of) recently suffered the devastation of her publisher closing down, leaving her without representation.

While many folks may have given up there and then, Shannon continued on (with the support of her ever-growing fan base of readers) and has signed up with a new publisher: Clean Teen Publishing…

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Thoughts for Friday - 13th March 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 13th March 2015

Apologies to my regular readers who might have been expecting a post this time last week from me, I had some things to attend to outside of the blogging sphere which meant that I wasn’t able to put together another rambling post about the meandering nature of my life. Truth be told, it’s a wonder that anyone finds my wittering interesting at all!

Some of you who have had the misfortune to know me…

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Pay It Forward: Heather B. Costa

Pay It Forward: Heather B. Costa

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Imagine my surprise and delight when notification came through of Taylor featuring my little old blog on her site!

Taylor has always been a great source of support for me when it comes to blogging and I was delighted when she chose my blog to appear on her ‘Pay It Forward’ feature.

If you have not already done so, please check out Taylor’s fabulous blog. I guarantee that you’ll love…

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Thoughts for Friday - 27th February 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 27th February 2015

I’ve been delighted with the response to last week’s post in which I complained (in detail) at how complex a task it is to book flight tickets. Although I was saddened to hear that many of you have also experienced similar issues, it makes me feel slightly better that I am not the only person who has been left thoroughly confused by airlines and the illogical manner in which they price their…

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Thoughts for Friday - 20th February 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 20th February 2015

Spurred on by writing about my upcoming trip to the States last week, I’ve spent many long hours looking for my flight tickets to actually get me over the other side of the pond and back again. ‘This will be easy,’ I laughed as I typed ‘Cheap Flights’ into Google.

What came out of the results astounded me. More than that, I think the fright took at least three years off of my life.

The first…

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Thoughts for Friday - 13th February 2015

Thoughts for Friday – 13th February 2015

Regular readers of my blog may know that in August I will be visiting with my closest friend and all-round wonderful woman Kate Loveton. What can I say, she lured me in with her promise that she will voluntarily visit Yankee Stadium with me during the New York leg of our mini tour!

With me living in the UK and Kate in the States, it means that flights across the Atlantic will not be cheap. Not…

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