It’s almost time to hit the road and celebrate the launch of our third Cracker & Gilly Mystery, Merinda’s Gold. Six weeks to go but who’s counting…
Call us intrepid or brave or downright foolish but we’re off to the place where Cracker and Gilly manage to get themselves into – and out of – so much trouble with the help of Cracker’s foot soldiers, Trann and Bone.
Two authors setting off on a grand adventure, meandering down the magical Southern New South Wales coastline – well, two authors, two kids, two dogs and a cat – to the the place it all began.
Did I mention the authors are related? That, in fact, all who know them are watching on in glee to see whether the brother and sister authors survive the caravan touring challenge at all. Will there even be a fourth Cracker & Gilly Mystery, they ask?
Bateman’s Bay may never be the same again but rest assured intrepid readers, Book 4 is not only started (well, Cracker’s written a chapter…somewhere…haven’t you Cracker?) but the coast is where we do our best – and only – planning.
Stay tuned for the details…and if you want to interview us, buy our books or set up and author signing just let us know. Otherwise, you’ll find us us the beach.
Bring on summer…
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Cracker and Gilly Author Tour coming your way soon
Posted in Book launch, book tours, collaboration, Fiction, middle grade fiction, writing life, tagged Bateman's Bay, book tours, caravanning, marketing middle grade fiction, The writing life on October 18, 2015| 1 Comment »
To Pseudonym Or Not To Pseudonym?
Posted in Book launch, Choosing the writing life, Fiction, fiction writing rules, pseudonyns, romance novels, romance writing, tagged a writer's life, writing romance on February 24, 2015| 1 Comment »
When to use a pseudonym:
1. When a famous romance writer has the same name as you.
2. When you are about to publish a romance novel and someone famous already has your name and fame.
3. When you’re trying to flog a literary fiction novel using your own name.
4. When you’re trying to flog a literary fiction novel and a famous romance writer already has your name and fame.
5. When you’re a middle-grade fiction writer who also writes romance.
6. When you are a teacher and all your students know you write middle grade fiction and you don’t want them to read the steamy parts.
7. When your co-author thinks you’re working on the rewrites of middle grade fiction book number three and you’re slacking off doing rewrites on a romance novel that will cause you total humiliation if your students read it at Writers Club tomorrow.
Lucky we writers have huge egos and don’t care what anyone thinks, except the famous author with the famous name the same as yours, and the co-author who is also older brother and is bossy, and a gaggle of students who are gunna snigger when I walk around the playground for the next two hundred years.
Publish and be damned…
Melinda Hammond
Finally…my novel
Posted in Book launch, book publishing, Books, Fiction, indie publishing, Writing, tagged Australian fiction, book launches, books, fiction, indie publishing, Mining, mining fiction, mining history, Norseman on October 5, 2014| 2 Comments »
growing up writing 