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#writetip: to dare is to do... a socially awkward writer and the dilemma of social media
I am not ashamed to say that trying to promote my books and develop a social media author platform has given me problems over the years.
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CG Hatton is a sci-fi writer, editor and publisher based in Teesside. She has a PhD in geology and a background in journalism. She writes the Thieves’ Guild military sci-fi series, and edits Harvey Duckman. She loves meringue, supports Tottenham Hotspur, drinks rum and listens to Linkin Park, has climbed active volcanoes, walked on the Great Wall of China and been mugged in Brazil. She is married with two amazing daughters and is working on her next book. Find out more at www.cghatton.com
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Writing about a far future war when war is right here now…
As anyone who knows me knows, when I finished LC’s first book, Kheris Burning, I almost didn’t release it.
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Pen and paper, ink and dye...
Since going super high-tech last year with software-based high end intelligence analysis to document my Thieves’ Guild stuff, I’ve ditched right back to pen and paper this year...
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When keeping track of plot needs more than pen and paper…
For someone who writes far future high action scifi, I’m quite old school.
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Linkin Park, the Thieves’ Guild and why I was so angry in 2007
Trigger Warning... (music and writing, miscarriage and loss…)
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My five favourite writing rums…
To celebrate International Rum Day, here are my five favourite writing rums...
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What is it about Kheris Burning…?
The answer is complicated, as always… when is it ever not complicated?
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ENTP or ESTJ?
How geeky is it to know the MBTi types of your main characters?
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It’s all in the name…
My characters’ names are very important to me. Some of them turn up with their own names right away, some are more difficult.
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When characters don’t behave…
Writing Residual Belligerence (Hil) took me a year, Blatant Disregard (LC) took about a year and a half – I’ve just found my notebook with the first scribblings of Harsh Realities (NG) and it’s dated exactly three years ago.