My Articles
The Upside of Not Selling...or at least, not selling as quickly as you'd hoped - How many of us have been there - desperately working towards getting that call, deep in the umpteenth wip, buoyed by a myriad of people telling us after a clutch of contest wins or finals that we're "sooooooo close" or that we're "next"... Read more>>
Competitions: Your Fast Track to the Editor's Desk - Who needs an editor anyway? Why are you writing? Ask yourself that question. If you’re writing for fun, for personal gratification, for the sheer joy it gives you to create characters... Read more>>
Things your mother never told you about writing contests - Want a cheap and foolproof way to learn more about your own writing and how to improve it? Like to know how editors can spot a good manuscript at fifty paces... Read more >>
Wet Noodle Aussie shares her love of South Australia - written for the Wet Noodle Posse ezine debut edition August 2004. Read more>>
Copyright © 2008 by Trish Morey. All rights reserved.
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Interviews
Putting these interviews together, I realized just how nosy I really am - all these questions to editors over the years! I hope you find something useful amongst the answers
The Acquisitions Process - Q&A with Angelina Manzano, Editorial Assistant, HM&B London - December 2003
A Chat with Dianne Moggy, Ed Director Single Title, Harlequin Enterprises - Dianne spoke to me prior to her visit Down Under to RWAustralia's Passion in Paradise conference in August 2003.
Everything you always wanted to know about M&B but were afraid to ask - Lucy Mukerjee, (former) Editorial Assistant, HM&B London
My Stuff
Contest History - A listing of all my contest wins and places since I started entering competitions in 1998. The third placing in the Opening Chapter Competition for "Meltdown" was my first competition entered. I'd been writing for several years by then, but had never been game enough to enter the competitions, though I had been submitting to Mills & Boon in London for some years.
The Call... My Story - After 11 years, finally The Call! Read how it happened.
