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TOPICS
advance on royalties
adverbs
age of character
agent, literary 1, 2, 3, 4
American/US market 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
anthologies
anti-climax
archaic style
article, definite/indefinite
Australian market 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
awards 1, 2, 3, 4
backstory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
begrudging revision
blurb 1, 2
bookshops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
caricature
character names 1, 2, 3
children’s & YA fiction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
cliché 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
cliffhanger 1, 2
cover letter 1, 2
crime fiction 1, 2, 3, 4
cut or skim 1, 2
dialogue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
downhill glide 1, 2
dreams 1, 2, 3
empathy (for character) 1, 2
epic fantasy 1, 2, 3
epilogue 1, 2
first-novel syndrome
foreground-background 1, 2, 3, 4
Free Indirect Discourse, FID 1, 2, 3, 4
hook, the 1, 2
horror 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
info-dumping
intersection of lives
interviews
journal presentation
lateral thinking
libraries, librarians 1, 2, 3, 4
line edit
line of sight
list, publisher’s list 1, 2, 3
literary fiction/writers/critics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
mirror device 1, 2
MS assessment services
mystery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
name author 1, 2, 3, 4
narrators 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
paragraphing 1, 2, 3, 4
passive (sentences)
passive revision
PLR & ELR
prologue 1, 2
pseudonym
quest
reader-friendly 1, 2, 3
rejections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
repetition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
reviews, reviewers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sale or Return
sales and marketing 1, 2
science fiction, SF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
semi-autobiographical fiction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
sequel 1, 2
shelf-time
short stories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
simile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
slow-mo, slow motion 1, 2
sound associations
spaghetti theory
spelling (Australian/American)
statement, statement-itis 1, 2, 3, 4
story-arc 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
stream-of-consciousness
structural edit
suspense 1, 2, 3, 4
synopis 1, 2
teaser 1, 2, 3
ten sample readers
trade paperback
trade vs education
twists 1, 2, 3, 4
variety 1, 2, 3, 4
verbs 1, 2, 3
‘what-if’ state of mind 1, 2, 3
word-of-mouth 1, 2
workshops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
writer’s block 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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AUTHORS & TITLES
Austen, Jane
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Carmody, Isobelle
Cornish, D.M.
The Da Vinci Code
Dowling, Terry
Eddison, E.R., The Worm Ouroboros
Gemmell, Nikki, The Bride Stripped Bare
Hearn, Liam
Ibsen, Henrik
Joyce, James, Ulyssses
King, Stephen 1, 2, 3
Lanagan, Margo 1, 2
Le Guin, Ursula
Lewis, C.S., Narnia books
McCaffrey, Anne, Dragonflight 1, 2
Meyer, Stephanie, Twilight series
Miéville, China
Moloney, James
Moore, Marianne
Morris, William
Poe, Edgar Allan
Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Silverberg, Robert Lord Valentine’s Castle 1, 2
The Sixth Sense
Stoker, Bram, Dracula
Tolkien The Lord of the Rings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Total Recall
Winslow, Don
Wolfe, Gene 1, 2
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