Julie Frayn

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The next big thing!

December 22, 2012

Welcome to the hop! The Next Big Thing Blog Hop that is. Here you have the chance to find new authors and discover new and upcoming books, and maybe learn a bit about what I do for fun. Welcome to S.L. Wallace who tagged me for this event. She is the author of the Reliance on […]

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All nano’s eve

October 30, 2012

October 31. Halloween. All Hallows Eve. The precursor to All Saints Day and All Souls Day. No matter what you call it, kids from two to ninety-two will be dressing up in the best costumes and trying to frighten the pants of you. But you know what? They don’t scare me. Because Halloween represents something […]

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Query me this

September 19, 2012

Writing a novel was easy in comparison to the query. That baby may be the death of me. When writing a novel you aren’t limited by word counts or pages. You can say what you need, be verbose and have ten line run-on sentences, write pages of exposition and introspection and detailed settings and just […]

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Camp is my bitch

September 13, 2012

Well, I got to the end of Camp NaNoWriMo and met all of my goals. And of course, met the big goal, the one I didn’t think I could meet during a normal month, let alone the month after receiving soul crushing news. By getting to the end of camp and making the goal of […]

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Hello Mudder. Hello Fadder. Here I am at. Camp NaNoWriMo

August 19, 2012

Anyone who’s taken part in Camp NaNoWriMo knows the plan. Write 50,000 words in one short month. A first draft of a fully formed novel in thirty days. Of course in August, we get an extra twenty four hours. So we got it easy. Don’t worry, I’ve not become an outdoorsy tent-loving fire-building survivalist. It’s […]

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Don’t quit! A guest post by Jon Bard from Children’s Book Insider

July 2, 2012

Today I am handing my blogspace over to Jon Bard, Managing Editor of Childrens’ Book Insider. What does writing for children have in common with sexy grammar? Not much. But I am thrilled to have him aboard with a post that speaks to the frustrations of writers in every genre. Don’t quit! A guest post […]

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February is challenging this year

February 16, 2012

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon For some reason, this February has brought challenges. Not the usual ones like finding enough hours to write, figuring out what to get my daughter (who turned 20 last week!) for her birthday, or remembering […]

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