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29/01/2025

Author Interview: Belinda Campbell (Author of ‘Something Wicked’ and Critique Partner Extraordinaire)

Hello! It feels like one million years since I last did an interview on here. It is entirely possible I’ve never done an interview here. One of my lovely critique partners, Belinda Campbell, released her debut novel Something Wicked last autumn and, in case you’ve missed the unhinged levels of excitement I’ve been projecting at Continue reading

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13/03/2019

Meet THE PRINCESS AND THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES ABOUT UNLIKELY HEROES.

It’s time to introduce you to dragonnovel. After 3 years of writing and plotting and editing and re-plotting, 3 months of unsuccessful pitches to agents (followed by a much-needed edit) and approximately 14 uses of Google to double check different shades of the colour blue, dragonnovel’s done. In the can. Would it be even better Continue reading

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10/06/2018

Look, a Goat

Afternoon. I’m going out in a minute but my intrinsic need to post something every single month and/or week to stop my life losing meaning is flaring up, so HERE I AM. I put a dress on earlier but it’s cooler than I thought so I’m also wearing a hoodie and trouser-sized leggings. You scoff Continue reading

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24/05/2018

10 Things I Can Tell You About Dragonnovel

I’ve been working on my book most of the morning and I started writing a quick update for my patrons, but there are only two of those currently and one is a close relation, so I thought I might as well share it here. The text is still a bit too draft-y for me to Continue reading

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Author Interview: Belinda Campbell (Author of ‘Something Wicked’ and Critique Partner Extraordinaire)

Meet THE PRINCESS AND THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES ABOUT UNLIKELY HEROES.

Look, a Goat

10 Things I Can Tell You About Dragonnovel