Any writing career is full of ups and downs, and today, Angeline's tackling the inevitable down moments with her top tips for coping with bad reviews and rejections. She offers up the reasons you might receive a rejection, none of them being that you're a bad writer! Hear her top tips for moving on, regaining [...]
In this episode, Holly interviews Angeline about her new non-fiction book, From Sanctity to Sorcery: An Author's Guide to Building Belief Structures and Magic Systems. Angeline shares some of the juiciest tips for integrating magic and religion into your books; talks about her own spiritual journey; and shares some ideas for ways to approach different [...]
Today, Holly talks with mystery author, Samantha Goodwin. They discuss what it takes to write a compelling crime story, the importance of networking, plus ways that Samantha supports the indie author community. Our question of the week: Where did you get your love of stories? Let us know in the comments here, in our Facebook [...]
In this week's episode, Holly and Angeline are talking book releases, offering up their top tips, and admitting their biggest mistakes. With advice about identifying your audience, building your author platform, and how to put together a review team, you'll learn how to ensure your book launches don't disappear into the void. Hear about the [...]
This week, Angeline runs through the main options for publishing, looking at the differences between traditional publishing, small and independent presses, and self publishing. She discusses the benefits of choosing more than one route, and being a 'hybrid author'. Reiterating that this is a decision to be made, not just about your first book, but [...]
In this episode, Angeline and Holly discuss why you shouldn't compare your path to anyone else's. Talking about how to sift through all the advice, they dig into the various ways that you can make your author journey unique and workable for you. Hear what advice they've chosen to ignore, and their individual habits that [...]
Today, Holly talks to sci-fi and fantasy author Julia Scott about her writing process and the importance of good formatting. They get into ideas coming to writers as dreams, having multiple streams of income and why readers subconsciously value a well-formatted book. Julia has a formatting and logo design business as well as writing fiction. [...]
In this week's episode, Angeline and Holly are talking about author platforms, and the importance of owning as much as you can. They define what an author platform is, why you need one, and give examples of the different places that make up your platform. With lots of information on websites, mailing lists, and direct [...]
In this week's episode, we're attempting to survive the apocalypse. Along with guest co-host, Twitch streamer Paul, Angeline explores the post-apocalyptic genre, across books, movies, and games. They discuss the enduring tropes, how to create a timeline, and the different ways to bring death and destruction upon your world. With top tips on characterisation, and [...]
We've all heard the old adage 'write what you know', but what does that really mean? It certainly doesn't stop you from writing about dragons, or magical quests, or teenage boys (if you've never been one!) This week, Holly and Angeline look at the things you might know that can help create fictional characters, stories, [...]
