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Ana on Sensitivity Reading – Sensitivity Blog Series

Image Alt Text: This image depicts a purple sun on a white background and overlaid with the words “Exploring the need for / Sensitivity Readers / a blog series / by E.J. Dawson, Tara Jazdzewski, Alex Woodroe, Ashley Dawn, Fay Lane and Alexa Rose”. To the right of this image are a series of words arranged beside a black triangle, and from the top, the words read “disability / race /… Read More

Category: Sensitivity, Uncategorized Tags: #reading, #sensitivityreaders, #Writerscafe, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writerslife, writing

Wolf at the Door

I’m having a rant. Want to know why? Because people are being bullied. Being threatened. Being made to feel unwelcome and unwanted in the #WritingCommunity. I wish this wasn’t the first time I’ve spoken about how I’ve seen or been guilted in the #WritingCommunity about what I do with my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages, but I’d be a damn liar. Anyone who’s followed me would know I have… Read More

Category: Social Media Tags: #authors, #blackmail, #book, #books, #bullied, #bullying, #community, #dreams, #ebook, #F4F, #followers, #indieauthors, #marketing, #Publishers, #reading, #selfpub, #SocialMedia, #Twitter, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writing

How I F*cked Up

Rather than respond directly to a series of tweets that were recently hurled at me about why I would need editors, critique partners or beta readers before selling my novel to unassuming readers, I’m going to explain why I do in great detail. And to do this I have gotten up at 5am to trawl through notes made to me about my work over years of novels to show you all… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #amediting, #betareader, #critiquepartner, #edit, #editing, #feedback, #mistakes, #read, #reading, #reviewing, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writing