Den of Writers | Doug | Mentions https://www.denofwriters.com/members/dougk/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Doug. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:20:05 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 45c17d36668f8c7eb34cd42065dbc615 Daedalus replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/traditional-or-self-publishing/#post-9331 Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:37:54 +0000 @dougk if you’d like an alternative to a sedative, you can read the exhaustive cautionary tale of my small press experience here https://airandseastories.com/2019/01/30/my-publishing-nightmare-the-story-of-a-book-deal-gone-bad-part-1/

]]> 0 bb689cd72b2497125813f328494b5378 JaneShuff replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/traditional-or-self-publishing/#post-9329 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:56:51 +0000 Good article @dougk.

For anyone looking to submit to Indie Presses in the UK and Ireland, the Indie Press Guide produced by Mslexia is a good place to start. Also, if you don’t have an agent to check a contract for you, the Society of Authors in the UK will check it at no charge. I’ve found them VERY thorough!

]]> 0 847077c9be5ac4049d5d199c828124e3 Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/15867/#acomment-15872 Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:02:12 +0000 Ah @janette, but its the winter solstice! That’s how I see it – and all the build up excitement is just a way of making the dark bearable!! Although I do wish it meant we could celebrate on the actual solstice (early presents!) but I guess that’s a step too far!
@dougk when my mini was at primary school (4-11yrs), we mums used to just call it…[Read more]

In reply to - Doug replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition I’ll post mine tomorrow. Couldn’t post it before then, for seasonal reasons. A question for our members in Britain and […] ]]> 8f1135f91947d3e3954ac477cec74146 Raine replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-8689 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:22:04 +0000 @dougk sorry for being so useless at checking in here. Hi & well done on the short story acceptance. Is it available online?
I repeat the ‘this too shall pass’ thing to myself fairly regularly! It’s the perfect balance of hope and recognition.

]]> 0 045456cf39b22457bb479cd16c330f08 JaneShuff replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/#post-8436 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:03:34 +0000 I like character questionnaires but I don’t do them slavishly. If there are questions where I don’t know the answer and I don’t care, I leave them. However other questions may provoke a stream of thoughts that go off on a tangent and I follow them. I find they are a useful tool (and that is all) when I want to work on a particular character and…[Read more]

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