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Aspiring Writer’s Checklist
So you’ve decided you want to be published. 1. Take your writing seriously (not too seriously). Give yourself permission to buy that book on plotting, attend that workshop and go to festivals and...
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Celebrating our fellow RORees!
When you’re part of a writing group and you’ve been through the ecstasy and the agony of life as a professional writer with your crit partners, it is a real buzz to see their work acknowledged. Two of...
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Revision and Editing
Having escaped my work and family for about 10 days I went to the World SF Con but first we did our 2010 Melbourne ROR where, Dirk, Richard and Maxine confirmed what I had suspected about my latest...
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Dark Urban Fantasy …
Readers of the spec fic sub genres have noticed the advance of a related sub genre appearing on the bookshop shelves – Dark Urban Fantasy (DUF) or Paranormal Romance. This cousin of spec fic’s Dark...
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Meet Maxine McArthur
I met Maxine McArthur at World Con in 1999. In those heady days Random House was developing a genre line which published Tansy, Maxine and myself. (Random House discontinued the line, orphaning all...
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Meet Richard Harland
A man of many waistcoats, Richard Harland is a great raconteur. (If you ever have to do a reading at an SF Con, try not to be slotted in after him). A writer of SF, fantasy, horror, mystery and the...
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Paul Mannering: How did I get here?
For the first time ever, Angry Robot opened its doors to independent submissions. New Zealand based Paul Mannering – along with thousands of other hopeful writers – submitted the first five chapters of...
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How Writing Competitions can help you …
Today we’re going to hear from 2 members of the RWA Paranormal Romance e-group, who have been driving their writing craft and writing careers forward by entering writing competitions. For anyone...
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Raring to ROR…
As some of you might know our ROR writing group gets together every 12 – 18 months to critique our books in progress. Back in 2001 at the first ROR we read Margo Lanagan’s Black Juice anthology and...
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Margo Reveals What it’s like inside a ROR Crit Week!
From Margo … A Deepening ROR—a wRiters On the Rise workshop, from the inside That's where we were circled in red First there’s a bit of foreplay. Someone pipes up online: “When’s the next ROR?” Someone...
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