Blog posts and articles on reading, writing, publication and promotion, and on general wellbeing

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Anne Goodwin's articles in print

On promoting your writing

Branding by the Back Door

How to have a book launch party

How a one-star review is a gift to people pleasers  

The dos and don’ts of the promotional blog tour

The shrinking violet’s 6-point guide to promoting your novel

Warning: introverted writer at large

Is it autobiographical?

On speech recognition software and repetitive strain injury

Hands hurt? How to keep writing anyway

When words behave like toddlers

The toddler in my laptop

On small press publication

Riding the mule: The adventure of small press publication

Making Small-Press Publication Work for You

When Small Is Beautiful in the Publication Circus

A difficult second novel? I’m about to find out

What’s in a name?

What's the difference between a draft and an edit?  

Unravelling the mystery of mystery  

Planning for pantsers

Come into my cave!

How to have a fruitful research trip


On writing technique

5 points to consider when commissioning a professional critique  

Using your own experience as a springboard for your debut novel  

Sameness, difference and the space between novels one and two

Bunnies and chocolate eggs: Does Easter work for marking time in fiction?

Fictionalising the Mentally Disordered Offender

The Child in the Clothes of the Criminal

From clinical and academic writing to fiction

Writing about diversity from the outside in

On invisible vulnerabilities and writing about self-harm

6 points to consider when crafting an awkward character

Writing about secrets, the false self and insecure identities

How walking helps my writing

Don’t be seduced by the allure of romance!

On wellbeing

Struggling soprano no more?

You don’t know until you try!

Why I’m thanking my therapist

Writing happy?

Cultivating desired habits with if-then plans

What’s behind those overambitious targets and self-imposed deadlines?