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• Pictures of You

  4475 readersAs I mentioned last week, I'm now finished the first draft of 18 Kisses! I'm meeting with my editor next week to discuss the rewrites, but at the moment I'm catching up on all the other stuff I was avoiding during first draft madness, and thinking about book 3! (which is as of yet untitled.)

• Take a Break

  2489 readersI’ve had an interesting writing experience over the last couple of months that I wanted to share today.  With the final draft of my third book, Sunrise of Avalon, finished, turned in to my publishers, and stamped with the editorial seal of appro...

• The First Rewrite

  4948 readersLast week, I finished the first draft of a novel that is due next April. This week, I began my first rewrite, a process I enjoy far more. I know that for many of you, rewriting is less exciting than writing that first draft. For you, there is nothing more thrilling than creating something from

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  A Little Update

  5429 readersHey Everybody! I'm back!As well as finishing off 18 Kisses (I just have to complete final edits, then it's done!) some really cool things happened this month:my dad, me and philomena

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  In the Zone

  2189 readerspages from my 18 Kisses Scrapbook*This morning I was quite tired, yet super happy. I was up really late last night writing 18 Kisses. FINALLY I am back in the zone. See, up until last week I was writing my second book whilst still rewriting my first on...

• A Little Update and Best of 2011

  5724 readersHey Everyone!I had every intention of posting more gift ideas and other Christmasy related stuff this month but got sidetracked with finishing Eighteen Kisses. It's now done and gone to copy edits! YAY! I'm so happy, I've been working on it all year and can't believe it's finally finished.

• A Little Update…

  8278 readersI have sent in the first draft of 18 Kisses to my editor! I actually can't wait to do the rewrites, because I really, really like writing this book! It took me a while to get my head around it, I wrote about 4 drafts until I was happy with how the story went, but

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  A little update

  782 readersLast week I went to a play - Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It stared none other than...Alan Rickman! I think he's a great actor and also think he's amazingly cool. As I'm sure many of you know, he plays Sna...

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  A little update

  1379 readersLast week I went to a play - Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It stared none other than...Alan Rickman! I think he's a great actor and also think he's amazingly cool. As I'm sure many of you know, he plays Sna...

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  First Draft Fun

  1392 readersI am currently writing the first draft of my second book.  It has a working title of 18 Kisses and I am having such fun with it.  I love creating characters and writing big chunks of chapters in one go.  First drafts are my favourite.  Rewrites bring the book to the next level, but the