Author: Natasha Ngan
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A Few Thoughts About My Debut Year
It was a year of many wonderful firsts. My first ever edit with an actual editor! My first ever page proofs! My first ever party at my publishers! My first ever cover! My first ever book launch! And of course – my first ever BOOK! So, so exciting. I won’t ever get to experience my debut…
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What Happens After Your Book is Published
Short answer: Not a lot. Long answer: A few things change, but mostly it’s back to the usual. And by usual I mean, more writing. EVEN more now, because you’re feeling the pressure from your publisher’s deadline (if you had more than a one book deal), and you have readers now who are waiting on…
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Book Launch
Last week was my book launch at the gorgeous Notting Hill bookstore Lutyens & Rubinstein. It was a night I’ll never forget – I’m so glad I put the time and money into organising it. It was incredible to have all my friends and family there, as well as book bloggers and other authors I’d only talked…
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The Elties Interactive Cover
How cool is this! The incredible team at my publishers put together an interactive cover for The Elites, full of juicy little snippets such as my editor saying why she first bought the book when it came in on submission and a video of me chatting about the book. We’re hoping it’ll get people excited…
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Reviews and Press Round Up
A strange thing that happens as your pub date looms is that people start talking about your book (YOUR BOOK!), writing reviews and featuring it on their blogs and just generally saying Very Nice Things Indeed. It’s a terrifying time, because it makes you realise that you have no control over your book anymore. All…
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Book Review: Fearsome Dreamer by Laure Eve
Goodreads | Amazon There is a world where gods you’ve never heard of have wound themselves into hearts, and choice has led its history down a different path. This is a world where France made a small, downtrodden island called England part of its vast and bloated empire. There are people here who can cross…
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Overcoming Writers Block
For me, Matt Haig summed it up when he said writers block = writer’s indecision. I don’t believe in writer’s block. I believe in things in life that stop you writing or make it harder. In the lure of procrastination. In a lack of confidence. I believe in how on hard days, even doing your…