Debut Author’s Journey

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My Path to Publication; or, How I Hacked and Slashed my way Through the Uncharted Jungle of Novel Publishing

We’re pleased to welcome debut author Al Leverone as our guest today. I’m really excited to be here today. My invitation to appear at Romance University stemmed from a post I read at Vicky Dreiling’s blog [...]

Mills & Boon New Voices – What’s Next?

Help me welcome today’s posters – Leah Ashton, winner of the MB New Voices contest and Heidi Hormel, Top Four Winner! Carrie Spencer – First of all Leah, congrats on your win! You must be [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: End of the Journey – Promotion

I don’t really like to say good-bye. When I moved from Qatar earlier this year, I did everything I could not to have to say adios to my overseas friends. Here at Romance University, we [...]

Weekly Lecture Schedule for Dec 6-10: C.J. Redwine, Laurie London, Tawny Weber, Liz Talley

Congratulations to all the NaNoWriMo winners.  And if you participated and didn’t quite hit that 50K mark, you still deserve a huge pat on the back for giving it a go. It’s not an easy [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: On the Road with Revisions

Oh, my do we have a special post today! In addition to polling other new-ish authors about their revision processes, Laurie London is finally able to share her debut book cover. I pray for a [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: From the Call to Revisions

I don’t know about y’all, but sometimes I wonder if the long stretch of summer will ever be over. I find August to be a time of anticipation for the thermometer to drop below 100 [...]

Weekly Lecture Schedule for August 23-27, 2010: Edie Ramer, Laurie London, Tawny Weber & Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Hello, everyone! RU Crew, you won’t want to miss a single moment this week! Visit RU and chat with Edie Ramer, Laurie London, Tawny Weber and Laurie Schnebly Campbell. We’ll see you there! Mon, 8/23 [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: Sold! But first…

Today at RU, we’re continuing our bi-monthly series where we’ll follow debut author Laurie London on her journey from a newbie writer to publication. If you missed Laurie’s first lecture, please be sure to back track [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: Agent Hunting

Today at RU, we’re continuing our bi-monthly series where we’ll follow debut author Laurie London on her journey from a newbie writer to publication. If you missed Laurie’s first lecture, please be sure to back track [...]

A Debut Author’s Journey with Laurie London: Transforming Myself into a “Real Writer”

Today at RU, we’re kicking off a new bi-monthly series where we’ll follow debut author Laurie London on her journey from a newbie writer to publication. For our readers who are new to the writing arena, we hope you’ll learn many useful tips from Laurie’s journey. For those with more experience, you may find you have much in common with Laurie. Regardless, we think you’ll enjoy traveling the path to publication with her!

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