Year: 2018

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Monique Mulligan

WHAT HAVE I BEEN READING #16?

When I was a university student, the first thing I did in semester breaks was go to the library. On the way home from exams,

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Monique Mulligan

A LETTER TO MY UNPUBLISHED SELF: KATE GORDON

I know you’re terrified. Your heart quickens and your breath stops, every time you even think about it. And that sounds like melodrama, but you know it isn’t.

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Monique Mulligan

YOU’VE TYPED THE END – NOW WHAT?

You’ve typed THE END. You’ve finished your book. Now what? First of all, if this is you (and for all the people out there trying

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Monique Mulligan

A LETTER TO MY UNPUBLISHED SELF: STEPHANIE PARKYN

I feel like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come sitting here on your shoulder (A Christmas Carol has long been my favourite Dickens story). It is December, a year before your book is due to be released and you are faced with your first structural edit. I want to shake you.

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Monique Mulligan

IS A WRITERS’ RETREAT WORTH IT?

Excuse me for a day or two. I’m having a retreat from a retreat. “What?” I hear you asking, eyes creased in puzzlement. Exactly what

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Monique Mulligan

WHEN THE MUSE WHISPERS YOUR NAME …

Last week I emailed a manuscript to an agent and now I’m in that anxious waiting-hoping-second guessing state. Know that feeling? It’s like you’re a character

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Monique Mulligan

WHAT HAVE I BEEN READING #15?

What has been the best book you’ve read recently? Sometimes that’s an easy question to answer; other times it’s hard to pinpoint just one. Lately,

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Monique Mulligan

PUBLISHING IS NOT A RACE

Dear new writers, When you make that decision to write, to put your soul on the page, it’s exciting and scary and confusing all at

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Monique Mulligan

EMBRACING THE CREATIVE MOMENT

This morning I snatched a few moments to work on my ms, only to find that twenty minutes had passed. It wouldn’t have mattered if

BOOK REVIEWS
Monique Mulligan

WHAT HAVE I BEEN READING #14?

I haven’t felt like reviewing for a while – a combination of having too many things to do and needing to read what I wanted,

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