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Bitter Greens Book Review
"Threads of history and fairytale are richly intertwined to form this spellbinding story." Juliet Marillier Reviewed: 23 August 2020 ...

Valerie G Miller
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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The working mum . . . the other side
Juggling wife as a mum. A personal experience and exposé

Valerie G Miller
Sep 30, 20227 min read
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The Royal Correspondent
A Novel Review “The King’s Road is the place to be if you’re over all that middle-aged, middle-class respectability” Alexandra Joel The...

Valerie G Miller
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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Short Story Review: If You're Happy
“His heart keeps his own rhythm, strong and steady, like it might just beat forever." Fiona Robertson I have this weekend routine. I wake...

Valerie G Miller
Jul 6, 20222 min read
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How I’m an author with a full time job?
"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from...

Valerie G Miller
Jul 2, 20224 min read
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Italians in Australia. That’s Amore!
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life Anna Akhmatova Buongiorno, mi chiamo Valeria Gisella. G’day, my name is...

Valerie G Miller
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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What are my writing tools?
"You can make anything by writing." C.S. Lewis Ever wonder how your favourite author creates their book? I would love to share the tools...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 30, 20214 min read
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How to maintain your social media profile and still have time to write?
Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships. David Alston When I started on my journey to become a...

Valerie G Miller
Jul 17, 20215 min read
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Which publishing option is best for your book?
The future of publishing is to have connection to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. Seth Godin I have...

Valerie G Miller
Jun 12, 20214 min read
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Passionate about Podcasts
Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an audiobook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!...

Valerie G Miller
Apr 3, 20213 min read
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What’s in a name?
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare (Romeo and...

Valerie G Miller
Mar 7, 20215 min read
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New beginnings
Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot The new year has started, which means new goals, new habits to build, old habits to break...

Valerie G Miller
Feb 6, 20215 min read
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Why a pseudonym?
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 19, 20205 min read
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The Autumn of my Dreams
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 12, 20205 min read
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Twelve Rejections ... coming of age as a writer
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath I read an article about a writer whose goal was to receive 100 rejections in...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 5, 20203 min read
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Miss Muse ... why are you so fickle?
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. Helen Hanson Muse. A noun. There...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 28, 20203 min read
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Great first lines that get you hooked
Reading a novel is a journey. A great novel can entice you into a wonderful new world filled with great characters, events and emotions....

Valerie G Miller
Nov 21, 20203 min read
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National Novel Writing Month ... a.k.a NaMoWriMo
There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 14, 20204 min read
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If you want to do... you have to say yes to no!
You don't find time to write. You make time. Nora Roberts 2020. 20 days. 20 thousand words. I do have an affiliation for numbers that...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 7, 20205 min read
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Short Stories are Big Quests
A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore As an emerging...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 31, 20206 min read
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