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    And The Title Is…

    by Lisa January 4, 2012
    January 4, 2012

    I find book titles hard. I spent a decade working on my first novel and I still didn’t have a title I liked when I submitted it to publishers. This …

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    Writing Wednesday: Killing Your Darlings

    by Lisa December 21, 2011
    December 21, 2011

    Last week, after a string of awful nights, I decided to write a children’s story. The fun I had writing this little story did not make up for the exhaustion …

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    How is Memoir Writing Different than Fiction Writing?

    by Lisa September 14, 2011
    September 14, 2011

    Here’s a break from all the baby talk. This is a guest post I wrote for Moody Publisher’s blog InsidePages just before Dominic was born – they asked me to …

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    Family talk about the memoir

    by Lisa June 16, 2011
    June 16, 2011

    It started shortly after I arrived here four weeks ago. Mum was asking me where I was up to with my next book, and I told her that my agent, …

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    Writing about loved ones – to do or not to do, that is the question

    by Lisa May 18, 2011
    May 18, 2011

    So I’m in Australia, after a long journey from Laos that had its ups and downs. We’ll get to those later this week, but first let me stop and say …

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    Is home a place?

    by Lisa July 16, 2010
    July 16, 2010

    Home, it seems, is the theme of the week. First, good news. The contract isn’t signed yet, so no guarantees, but it looks as if we have found a house! …

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