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Diana Jackson

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  • To Change or not to change? ~ Changing your author name

    There are many reasons why authors change their pen name: To write in a different genre. (Joanna Rowling didn’t want her book ‘Casual Vacancy’ to be identified with her Happy Potter series.) To write incognito if the author doesn’t want friends and family to identify them. To have a fresh start. To distinguish between their…

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  • New Year, New Name ~ Exciting News Ahead!

    DIANA M JACKSON In time for the launch of my new ‘mystery inspired by history’ MISSING, Past and Present I am adding an initial to my name. from now on I will be Diana M Jackson, certainly for my ‘mystery inspired by history’ series. This is consistent to my blog: http://www.dianamj.wordpress.com and my website: http://www.dianamaryjackson.co.uk…

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  • Reflection, In the Moment and Looking Ahead to 2020

    A belated Happy New Year to you all! Reflection Thinking of my personal journey, 2019 was a tough one family wise, reflecting the state of the nation, but I feel in a stronger and more optimistic frame of mind for 2020. Back into my writing life in 2019 I worked on:  Preparing my new novel…

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  • Next Three Challenges to Getting in the Zone ~ More Small Steps to Book Marketing

    Small Steps to Book Marketing Review A month ago on my blog post ~ Getting in the Zone~  I set myself three challenges so how am I doing? To get to know the #Writing Community on Twitter, because the writing world can be a bit lonely having moved away from your support group. Review #WritingCommunity…

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  • Why Authors Blog

    On Twitter today @womewritersnet wrote: ‘This week we’ve been tweeting about how to enable our writing to reach a wider audience and #blogging has been recommended. Does anyone have experience of hosting guest blog posts or writing them? Can shared posts help to reach new audiences? Tell us your experiences.’ …and so here’s my response…

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  • Nellie Rault was murdered 100 years ago ~ An Inspiration

    The unsolved murder of a Jersey lass, Nellie Rault, one hundred years ago, inspired my first murder mystery, Murder Now and Then. viewbook.at/MurderNowandThen Here is Nellie Rault’s full story compiled and carefully researched by Liz Walton from the Great War Channel Island Study Group. The mystery also inspired the Luton Paranormal Society to investigate it!…

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  • Writing effective blog posts ~ I suggest you ‘Do as I say and not as I do’

    As I was trying to be organised and think through a plan for blog posts for the next month I realised how haphazard I’d been of late, for various reasons and have vowed to try to do better. I’m sure if I were more disciplined I would follow the following: Write regularly so that your…

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  • Glen Clova ~ a gem of a journey for creative inspiration

    We were talking about trips to the mountains from Fife with our local artist and friend Douglas Gray and he mentioned Glen Clova and described how to reach it via Dundee. Douglas returns there frequently for inspiration for his painting, but for me it was a taster day to reinvigorate my ‘little brain cells’. Around…

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