Danielle de Valera is a freelance manuscript assessor who lives on the far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Romantic, her 3rd fiction ms, has just been shortlisted for the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Unpublished MS Award. The 1st Found: One Lover, cowritten with Lucy Forster, won the Emma Darcy Award for Romance MS of the Year 2000. The 2nd Magnificat, was picked up by literary agent Rosemary Creswell. Her short stories have won numerous awards in Australia and have been appeared in such diverse publications as Australasisan Penthouse and dot.lit. She is not good with digital technology and keeps losing her way all over this site.
Hi Danielle,
Lovely site and gorgeous photo of you.
I When I read Shaun’s post on marketing, I thought yep. I understand where she’d coming from. But I keep plugging away here and there. We’re a speck in so many millions of books out there, the choices are phenomenal.
Thanks ~~~ Lucy
Well done, Danielle. The site looks wonderful and I still love the misty look.
As a painter with a broad brush, I’ve endured six weeks using two camel hairs glued to a stick in order to correct all the spelling, punctuation and syntax that fell out of my head during the writing of the ‘Nooky’ book. It’s now finished and published by Francis Chuah at FC productions of Sydney. The title is interesting in that it acts as a mirror. There are far fewer open minds out there than I thought! Some people become quite shrewish, others with a ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink’ attitude, as they THINK they know what the contents are. I’ve come to realise that writing a book has 1/10 difficulty as I mentioned before, but that the marketing and promotion is the hard part. ‘May you live in interesting times’ is an old curse (Arabian?) so 2012 should be ‘interesting!’
May you have a gentle, snake-free Christmas and get all you want in 2012. Thank you too, for all your previous help. Cheers Chris and Rebecca Shaw
Thanks so much for that, Chris. Hope you have great success with your book, and that 2012 brings us all a quiet and a peaceful New Year. Let’s hope the Mayans were wrong!
Best to you & Rebecca (and les chats), Danielle