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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


The working mum . . . the other side
Juggling wife as a mum. A personal experience and exposé

Valerie G Miller
Sep 30, 20227 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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