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Don’t you just love free stuff?

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Thanks to the many bloggers I follow, and who follow me, the links keep coming.

This is a terrific free-bee should you need a beautiful photo for your blog, book cover, poster or whatever.

sign-up and receive notifications each time new pics are uploaded or just search for what you need. You’ll find beautiful, professional, high quality photos all free to use.

Check out UnSplash.com

Or some of the different things made with UnSplash. 

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More Websites and Links for Book worms, Bloggers and Writers

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Thanks to Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog for connecting me to a new Blogger-

I love all the Links for readers and writers alike.

Lots to dig into tonight.

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Marje @ Kyrosmagica's avatarM J Mallon YA Author and Poet

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Soon, on Tuesday 5th of May, there is to be a Writers’ resources evening at Cambridge Writers,  the group that I am a member of, so with this in mind, I thought I would do a little warm up, and type up some helpful website links for Writers, Bloggers and Book Worms.

http://www.cambridgewriters.net/

I have been gathering the details of this list for some time so hope that it will be a useful resource.

So to kick it off my first discovery was Wasafari, who are they you might ask?
“Wasafiri is Britain’s premier magazine for international contemporary writing. Published quarterly, it has established a distinctive reputation for promoting work by new and established voices across the globe.”

Book review/Bookish sites:

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Netgalley https://www.netgalley.com/

Bookbridgr http://www.bookbridgr.com/

and Lovereading.co.uk http://www.lovereading.co.uk/

Read books for free: https://storycartel.com/search

Author’s resources:

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Tips for authors on how to make book trailers: https://effrosinimoss.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/tips-for-authors-book-trailer-made-easy/

Tips on writing…

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How to pick and choose your scenes

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One of my favorite ezines now is South West Writers

In today’s email is a great article on how to figure out which scenes in your writing need trimming or maybe cutting.

How do you decide which scenes are working? 

Lorena Hughes gives a lot of information to help a writer make that decision. Hop over and read.

TRIMMING THE FAT (AKA EXPENDABLE SCENES) IN YOUR NOVEL by Lorena Hughes

Happy editing.

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Anatomy of a Best-Selling Story—Part Two

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Yea, here’s the second installment from Kristen Lamb. The timing couldn’t have been better for me. I’ve been working on my story structure the last few weeks. Trying anyway. So thanks Kristen.

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Last post, I started talking about the dreaded topic…structure. I write these posts because I really DO want you guys to succeed and as an editor for far too many years, the single biggest reason most new novels flop? Structure. Pretty prose does not a novel make. Each of these blogs will build upon the previous lesson. By the end of this series, I hope you to give you guys all the tools you need to be “structure experts.”

Yes, even the pantsers.

Structure is one of those topics that I feel gets overlooked far too much. There are a lot of workshops designed to teach new writers how to finish a novel in four weeks or three or two or whatever. And that is great…if a writer possesses a solid understanding of structure. If not? At the end of…

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