Have You Thought About This? Targeting Teenage Girls
(Boys, don’t feel like you have to sit this one out!) Teenage girls get a lot of stick. Anything marketed towards teenage girls, or that teenage girls like a lot, tends to get labelled...
Writing Gooder A Group Blog From The Young Writers Society
Featured Club: Your Novel
Writing a novel or three? Need a place to vent a bit about the trials and tribulations, and maybe get some sympathy and advice? Your Novel is the club for that. While most of...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Teen Witch
Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...
Challenge Corner #9 – Car Boot
Hello again, everyone! Apologies for the break in schedule last week – the shark of university leapt up out of the ocean a bit more suddenly than I was expecting, but we’re back to...
Word of the Week #10
Lawks a mercy, Susanna, Gallifrey’s not in Ireland! You’re such a piggesnye. piggesnye (noun) PEEG-eh-snee-yeh 1. “A cuckooflower”; someone who is pretty but not particularly bright.
The Game of Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games, the worldly phenomenon. HG and its two sequels are in battle against the hundreds of fantasy/young adult novels available in the market, yet it always comes out victor. Why? Well, unlike...
Featured Poem 4/22 – from Six Czech Poets
by Pavel Kolmacka translated by Alexandra Büchler from Six Czech Poets Still midday air, the breeze asleep in the nest of a tree. Before long God will give us a...
Have You Thought About This? Relatable Characters
(A quick author’s note- I’m sure you were all expecting the wise and lyrical Hannah to be writing this post but due to unforeseen circumstances, you get me instead. I will try and be...
Publishing Strategies: Vanity Publishing
This week’s post is a little bit different from the past few in that I don’t particularly recommend this strategy to anyone. Yet it’s still in existence because people use this method of publishing,...
