Tag: Writing

Author, Writing

Names and spellchecking

It’s been a while since we’ve updated here, so we thought we’d go with a simple writing tips post aimed at authors and anybody else who just loves exploring the writing process. Names can be either really easy to come up with – the character walks in and pretty much has a name badge attached …

Lists, Publishing, Reading

10 Facts & Figures About eBooks!

Readers and writers alike often debate the merits of eBooks versus traditional print publications. Though both sides offer valid support for their claims, this contentious argument is unlikely to end any time soon. Regardless of your position on this issue, one thing remains clear: eBooks are here to stay. Read on to discover 10 fascinating …

Lists, Reading, Writing

10 Old-Fashioned Words We Need to Resurrect!

Social media has brought us dozens of new words and phrases. “Bae’s eyebrows are on fleek” is a sentence no one would have uttered just five years ago; today, however, most Millennials know exactly what it means. Though new words are coming into vogue every month, many others have been lost. We think it’s high …

Author, Guest Entry

Meet An Author – Emily Shankle And The Raven’s Wing

Guest Entry By Helidth Ravenholm (Originally posted on Buzzfeed) It’s a fact – a lot more people write than you’d think. Another fact – a lot more people write really, really well than you’d think. For some, writing is their life – from the moment they’ve realised what they wanted to be when they grew …

Author, Guest Entry, Writing

Rose Raven – What Inspires Me?

Guest Post by Rose Raven (Author of The Pirate’s Lover, The Pirate’s Captive, The Pirate’s Choices, The Colonel’s Captive, and The Gambler’s Debt) “I tend to write on a whim, rather than in a focused way… so a lot of this is just whim-orientated bits of nothing that turn into a story. I like to …

Guest Entry, Writing

Styles of Writing And Which Person

Guest Entry by H. Ravenholm Having dissected all those potential pitfalls that await an author in this complicated world, let’s now look at the styles of writing and which person you write in.

Guest Entry, Writing

Styles Of Writing

Guest Entry by H. Ravenholm It’s a definite – there are probably as many styles of writing as there are people (read that potential authors, read that potential authors we want to publish  ). But… and that’s an everlasting but for all authors… what if, that terrible, niggling if, what if what you are …

Author, Guest Entry, Writing

Brooke Holme – I Find Inspiration In…

Guest Entry by Brooke Holme (Author of Dangerous Jungles, Masks, Times Apart and In The Middle of Things) “I’ve got a strong background in social sciences, so my background creates the twists and plots in the story. I often get worried that I include too much of the more technical in my books, so I …

Store

Where’s The Store? (Obsolete)

(Post is currently obsolete – 14/03/2017) Many of you are probably wondering where you can buy the eBooks that Gold Orchid Publishing is going to publish…