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Writing, reading, researching... a newsletter by historical fiction writer Emily Paull

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Get your skates on ...

The year is half over but that doesn't mean we have to be all work and no play. Welcome to the July wrap up.

Titles are hard

So is editing a book on a tight deadline. The update is late but at least you got one. Welcome to the June wrap up.

Not all who wonder are lost

An intentional typo and the unintentional passage of time. Welcome to the April/May wrap up. I have some things to tell you.

A year's worth of tips from the How to Read More series

How many of these have you tried? How's that TBR pile looking?

Any way the wind blows

Doesn't really matter... welcome to the March Wrap Up

What to do when you're losing it

If by 'it' you mean books you were sure you still owned... Welcome to the February Wrap Up

Progress is better than perfection

We're refilling our cups and recommitting to our goals... welcome to January's wrap up

Finishing strong, or perhaps finishing softly...

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." Or so said JRR Tolkein with somewhat confusing grammatical structure. Welcome to December's wrap up.

Headfirst slide into Christmas town on a bad bet...

That's a twist on a Fall Out Boy song title in case you didn't realise, and a very apt way to describe how time seems to move at this point of the year. Welcome to November's wrap up.

The sense of an ending... or at least, a year beginning to end...

In which we discover that the real reason spooky season is so scary is that it's very hard to outrun the realities of the things you set yourself up for. Welcome to October's update.