Gender and sexual orientation in romance writing

A romance is about love between people. In writing romance, you have to make those people believably interact to create that one extra, and most special character: The relationship itself. How important is gender and sexual orientation to the way…

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About One Beautiful People

In this book I have put together a collection of stories where hope shines, love wins, and magic happens. There is no set genre; Guinevere Unfrozen is a Sci-Fi novella, while Ground Zero wanders a little further into Fantasy with…

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Publishing date for One Beutiful People

We have now set the date! One Beautiful People will be availalbe from 10th July 2025. So much to do!

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The Confession (story)

One I dug out from the buried archive! I wrote this little short horror monologue in 2016. Less than a 1000 words – a five-minute read. Enjoy! Aly Are you ready? Are you recording this? Good, I will tell you…

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Written in the Stars: Is the chase for 5 star rating sucking us into a black hole?

The rating system has become a kind of Publishing Relativity, with the fewer the stars, the slower the sales. Let’s be clear, left to honest opinions only; even Shakespeare would not always score so high! Because not every book will…

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Family Wars character card completed

Meet Lara, as envisaged by Michelle Walls. ‘Family Wars’ will be one fo the stories inlcuded in One Beautiful People.

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Alyson is now represented by Book Authorial Support

I now have a whole new level of professional support from the lovely Jacob Tobey at Book Authorial Support. I’m very much looking forward to working with Jacob, beginning with the marketing and promotion of One Beautiful People.

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Developing a story card with Michelle Artistry

I am doing a set of story cards for my next collection of stories. These will appear in the book itself (‘One Beautiful People’), and also be used to advertise and hopefully get a few people excited. I think the…

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Picture this: Writers working with artists like Michelle

Anything in the field of creative art should come from a human soul. All artwork in this article by Michelle Walls As a registered Control Freak, I have always taken on the design duties for my book covers. This was…

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