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My Week at Busybird

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Staring at a blank page, writing a blog about … anything?   At first, I was expecting Busybird to be a normal publishing business, very formal, very bland.  When I walked … Continued

Stepping Into Genre Fiction

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The past few years of my life have been spent knee-deep in a literature degree. Countless hours have been dedicated reading and studying literary fiction, from Wilde to Woolf to … Continued

Learning and Growing

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“You need to write a blog. It can be about anything.” Those were the infamous words spoken, yet I still didn’t know what to write. I went through many examples … Continued

My 20-Year Writing Journey

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As cliché as it sounds coming from a publishing intern, I have always loved reading and writing. My dad loves to say that I began to speak ‘too early’, but … Continued

Words and the Weather

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When the sun becomes shrouded in a haze of grey clouds and the winter winds blow through the trees, I fear the worst… Infected with “seasonal blues”, I can always … Continued

My Work Experience

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Books have been a large part of my life ever since I was a child. My mother used to read stories to me before I was old enough to comprehend … Continued

Orange Hues

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The Oxford dictionary defines orange as a ‘bright colour that is between red and yellow’, such as, There was a warm orange glow in the sky. Of course, it also … Continued