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The Third Stage of Writing: The Promotional Stuff

Victoria Lane — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:05:12 +0000

Sometimes as writers we need to push ourselves to do things we don’t necessarily feel comfortable with. I’m not talking about the content or the writing process here, but the stuff that comes after publication. The promotional side of things. Like a lot of writers, I am fairly introverted and a fairly private person. So […]

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Cerrie Burnell: How Motherhood Led me to Writing

Cerrie Burnell — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:00:56 +0000

Cerrie Burnell is an actress and well loved CBeebies presenter and one of the few visibly disabled presenters on television. She wrote a wonderful piece for us last year (read it here) and we’re delighted to feature her again! Before I had my daughter, writing was a love which wove in and out of my […]

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From Journalist to Children’s Author

Victoria Lane — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 06:35:40 +0000

It’s a funny thing, the permanency of a book. In the past month or so, I’ve been lucky enough to hold in my hands a book that I wrote – Celia and Nonna, illustrated by Kayleen West. Lucky, because over the past few years an element of Powerball lottery has crept into the traditional publishing […]

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