On The Third Day of Christmas
The Writing Advice Laura Marshall Gave to Me…
Welcome to day three of my Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice.
We made it! We survived Christmas, and we are now on the home stretch to 2022 hoping it has some better news in store. I’m trying to decide on my writing resolutions for the next year, both in my fiction and in my ghostwriting roles. I have a ghosting project that I am due to file at the end of March which means that January will be spent with that old friend, the blank page. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written — this will be my eighth non-fiction book — that expanse of white still strikes fear into any writer. But today’s mystery author has something to say about that, so let her be a mystery no longer…
Laura Marshall has written four novels and her first, Friend Request, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her books — including Three Little Lies, The Anniversary and My Husband’s Killer — have been sold in 24 territories around the world and she has clocked up sales of more than half a million copies.
Many of us dream of such numbers, and so how did she do it? Perhaps her advice to budding writers will give us a clue…