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of Altered States Release and Round Robin of Change

Last Monday saw the release of the first edition of the of Altered States anthology series and my fellow contributors and I are celebrating by sending a series of guest posts out into the world. Similar to the Round Robin …

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City of Hell Release Day and Competition

Happy The City of Hell Chronicles Vol. I release day! Today is the day I am officially a published author and I am going to celebrate by giving away two copies of this special book. If you don’t know, The …

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Interview From Hell

The City of Hell Chronicles anthology is almost upon us. But the Great Maurr hath no mercy and put to us the Interview From Hell. Will my fellow contributors and I make it out alive? Pet from Hell Colin Barnes: …

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Scribbles Blog Hop

Today is National Show Your Journal Day! Didn’t you know? I’m participating in the Scribbles Blog Hop. Do you have a journal? Do you write in a journal? Do you write in someone else’s journal? Or do you just have …

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How I Wrote a Novel In A Day

Last Saturday, the 15th of October, 2011, I participated in a ‘Novel In A Day’ project. The idea is simple; a group of writers get together (mostly virtually) over the course of 24 hours and write a book. We were …

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About Inspiration

For once I give writing advice from experience. Most of the time the content here is reposted articles written by others that I find around the internet. Blog posts that I like. Blog posts that I think have some value …

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The Other Side of the Story: To Edit Or Not To Edit

Janice Hardy has a post about work-in-progress editing over at The Other Side of the Story. From the post; At some point during your first draft, you’re bound to ask yourself if you should keep going or start editing. (…) …

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Bookshelf Porn Series: Bookseat

In this instalment of the Bookshelf Porn series; All Rights Reserved Fishbol Atelier Why I like this photo; It’s one of those great examples of design that is intended for space economy, but ends up just looking really cool. Not …

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Bookshelf Porn Series: Karl Lagerfeld & Books

In this edition of the Bookshelf Porn series; All Rights Reserved unknown. I’m in the process of getting the copyright holder info from the repost source yeah you’re right. Why I like this photo; Not Karl Lagerfeld necessarily, although he …

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The Writer’s Forensics Blog: Transient Global Amnesia

Do you need some temporary but believable amnesia for your fiction? In this post, the Writer’s Forensics Blog hosts Dr. Strobl on the topic of Transient Global Amnesia. Transient Global Amnesia is a condition of full amnesia that leaves the …

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  • About

    Victoria is a full-time scientist by day and part-time writer by night. She writes Magical Realism, Dystopian Fiction and Horror, and sometimes a 'Novel In A Day'.

    When she finds time away from her PhD, she features photo blogging on Mondays, writing-related topics on Wednesdays, science-related posts on Fridays and whatever she feels like writing about on the days between.

  • My First Novel

    The Clarion Write-a-Thon 2011 has ended. During the challenge I have written 20,749 words on my first novel.

    I have learnt a lot. One of those things is that I need to change my point of view and restruc- ture the plot.

    This project is currently on hold, but I am very confident I will one day finish what I started.
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    My current progress

    20,749 / 60,000 (34.58%)

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    Progress bar courtesy of Honorless.

  • Dark Fiction Magazine

    Dark Fiction Magazine

    I'm a slush reader for Dark Fiction Magazine. ------------- Click the image to find out more about them.

  • Angry Robot Army

    Angry Robot Army

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    I'm a Robot Army Recruit!
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  • Clarion Write-a-Thon 2011

    Clarion Write-a-Thon 2011

    I was there.
    I'm a Clarion Write-a-Thon survivor.

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