Raine

Oooh I love a good hashtag!! #Denofwriters 🙂

Looks suspiciously like a move of our rooms here might be necessary… I wish now I’d been quicker to post a general comment about this place on the Cloud wall so’s more people had found us here. But like Kate says, if we can all check our Facebook/emails we might be able to trawl a fair few untethered CLoudies.

I guess, if this is it for the…[Read more]

Hiya Elle, Well done for diving in on the critique posting! This is a sad and believable portrayal of depression, quite uncomfortable to read – which it needs to be. I spotted a few wordings that I felt jarred a little, so I’ll give you them…

‘The caller’s name required a sharp inhale before answering.’ I’m not sure about the required, it s…[Read more]

Yeah, the kickstarters seem to get more coverage than the submission call for this and the other one I posted about. THat’s prob deliberate – the funding being the more limiting factor. But they’ve both hit their targets so are def going ahead.

THank-you Debi! Shortstops had not come across my radar. Or it had, but my radar is on the blink. 🙂

It’s a nice little motivation/acheivement boost to send short things out, I find. Particularly in the midst of endless edits, or horrible waiting-for-responses.

YAY for book two. Will twitter about it…

Wow, good thread me dears. PB, and others submitting, I feel your pain. I had an agent, had a book go out on sub, said agent left publishing, so now back to submitting a new book. I guess my experience has told me a few things:
1. Research your agencies as well as your agents. My agent was early career (a good thing re ambition perhaps), but also…[Read more]