Welcome to Morgen’s Online Novel Writing Group and the first novel extract submitted for this blog (yesterday's was a replay of a Red Pen Critique). :) This 837-word extract is by epic fantasy novelist Yvonne Hertzberger. Please do comment in the section below telling us what you liked about this story and, what if anything, the author could do to improve upon it.
Morgen Bailey is a freelance writer and blogger, writer blog designer, host of the weekly Bailey’s Writing Tips audio podcast and two in-person writing groups based in Northamptonshire, England. She is the author of numerous short stories, novels, articles, has dabbled with poetry but admits that she doesn’t “get it”, and is a regular Radio Litopia contributor. She is Chair of another local writing group (which runs the annual HE Bates Short Story Competition), belongs to a fourth, and can regularly be found on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. When she’s not researching for her writing groups, she is a British Red Cross volunteer, walks her dog (often while reading, writing or editing) and reads (though not as often as she’d like but is spurred on by her new Kindle) and somewhere in between all that she writes. Her blog, which like her, is consumed by everything writing-related, is http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com and she loves hearing from writers and readers. You can also read / download her eBooks and free eShorts at Smashwords, Sony Reader Store, Barnes & Noble, iTunes Bookstore, Kobo and Amazon, with novels to follow. She also had a quirky second-person viewpoint story in charity anthology Telling Tales. She has a writing-related forum and you can follow her on Twitter, friend on Facebook, like on Facebook, connect on LinkedIn, find on Tumblr, complete her website’s Contact me page or plain and simple, email her. Most recently she has set up http://icanbuildyourwritingblog.wordpress.com designing blog sites especially for other writers.
Jane Risdon
January 10, 2013 at 4:10 pm
I’m not normally a reader of this genre either but it gripped me and was well written, this is only the second piece in this genre I have ever read.. Good luck Yvonne.
Yvonne Hertzberger
January 10, 2013 at 5:23 pm
Thank you, Jane. It’s not a popular genre but I love it. Glad you liked the excerpt.
morgenbailey
January 10, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Don’t say that out loud, Yvonne – thousands of fantasy writers (inc. JRR Tolkein fans) would say it’s incredibly popular.
Yvonne Hertzberger
January 10, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Thanks Morgen. I wish some of them would find me.
morgenbailey
January 10, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Yvonne Hertzberger
January 10, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Let’s talk.
morgenbailey
January 11, 2013 at 7:53 am
Hi Yvonne.
A guest blog is generally <1,000 words on an 'educational' writing-related topic plus bio & pics (which I have). Details on http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/submission-information/opportunities-on-this-blog but if you look at http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/guest-blogs and/or http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/guest-blogs/topics, you'll see what people have done already.
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