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🎵On The Tenth Day of Christmas
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🎵On The Tenth Day of Christmas

The writing advice Elizabeth MacNeal gave to me

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How is your TBR pile looking at the start of this new year? Is it at risk of tipping over? Have you been neglecting it over the festive season? Adding to it? And how might it aid you in your writing this year? Perhaps today’s bestselling author might be able to help you with that.

But first, did you manage to catch up with Matt Cain’s advice from yesterday? If not, you can do so right here:

🎵On the Ninth Day of Christmas

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Jan 2
🎵On the Ninth Day of Christmas

Here we are on day nine, things are starting to get back to normal a little now and by normal I mean, we turn away from the booze and the delicious treats and back to our work in progress. What are you going to be writing this year? Perhaps you are at the very beginning of your journey, or need to reinvigorate that work in progress. Either way, I think today’s advice will be a good reminder for you.

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Today we find ourselves on the tenth day of Christmas and which author do I have for you today?

It’s Elizabeth MacNeal. Elizabeth is a bestselling author and potter.

Her debut novel, The Doll Factory was translated into 29 languages, was a Sunday Times bestseller, a BBC Radio Two Book Club pick, a BBC Radio Four Book at Bedtime and it was adapted for screen by Paramount. Her second novel, Circus of Wonders, was another Sunday Times bestseller and a Sunday Times Book of the Month. Last year saw the publication of her third bestseller, The Burial Plot, a bewitching, seductive gothic thriller about murder and manipulation

So, let’s see what advice she has for you today, and how you might apply it to that TBR pile:

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