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VGarland
Jun 7, 20223 min read
search and learn
Writing a book set in another time and place often means a lot of research. Some writers of the genre like to invent amazing magical...
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VGarland
Nov 5, 20213 min read
Art/writing
I've often thought of the similarities and differences between a visual artist and a word artist, or author. Some art, like some writing...
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VGarland
Aug 25, 20213 min read
Friends and books
Do you have any books which you think of like friends? Perhaps you have known them for a long time, and, reliably, they bring you comfort...
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VGarland
Aug 5, 20212 min read
Back to work!
After I finish a book, I always take a couple of months off before I start the next one. It gives me time to enjoy some reading and to...
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VGarland
May 21, 20212 min read
World Bee Day
It was World Bee Day yesterday (May 20th) and I thought I would write a little about this fascinating creature which features so...
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VGarland
May 10, 20213 min read
Reading and Scribing
As I write this blogpost on my laptop computer, I have been musing on the ways in which we, in our world, read and write, and how it...
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VGarland
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Days, months, years, Ages...
Many readers are especially interested in the way in which the Oramian and Kashiqi calendars are organised and in how they compare to our...
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VGarland
Apr 15, 20212 min read
Trade in oramia and kashiq
Readers will be familiar with the markets of Oramia and Kashiq, but I thought it might be interesting to write a little more about them,...
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VGarland
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Travel to Kashiq!
Hi everyone! Once again, apologies for not doing very well at keeping up with my blog! I am resolved to do better! I have great news for...
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VGarland
Jun 5, 20202 min read
How's it going?
Hello everyone! I know its been quite some time since I last wrote on my blog, for which I apologise. We have found ourselves in a...
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VGarland
Jan 8, 20203 min read
belief in oramia
Today's blog post will be around the subject of belief in the land of Oramia which we discover in Flammeus, the first book of The...
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VGarland
Nov 22, 20192 min read
What about the next book?
So...what everyone wants to know is...how is the next book in The Emberjar series coming along? When will it be out? Can you give us any...
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VGarland
Oct 14, 20193 min read
can you be an alpha beta reader?
So what is a beta reader, and, perhaps more importantly, how can you be an alpha beta reader? A beta reader is a reader who reads an...
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VGarland
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Plotter or pantser?
One of the questions you often get asked as an author is how you plan your books. Are you a plotter or a pantser? A plotter is a writer...
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VGarland
Sep 15, 20193 min read
Am I In It? Or are you?
One of the things which seems to be of most interest to people when they find out that you have written a novel is the matter of where...
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VGarland
Aug 28, 20192 min read
The work behind the word count...
People like to ask writers what they have written. Sometimes its a word count they are after. But which words do they mean? For every...
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VGarland
Aug 17, 20193 min read
Author Assist?
Today's blog focuses on the ways in which friends and supporters of authors, especially indie authors such as myself, can play their part...
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VGarland
Aug 8, 20192 min read
What? No dragons?
I wanted to write today about the thorny issue of genre and pigeonholing( or should that be dragonholing?) Writing as someone who...
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VGarland
Aug 1, 20193 min read
Writing is an art...
" Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful...
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