{"id":1738,"date":"2021-03-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlaarts.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:53:00","slug":"march-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/march-2021-update\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2021 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It is festival time in Adelaide, which also means I recently attended Writers’ Week. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this event, it is a free festival designed to bring authors and readers together with panels and book signings. One of the things I love about Writers’ Week is discovering new books to read and this year was no exception. But I also learned a lot thanks to a series of talks focussed on the business of being an author. My 2 biggest take-aways from this year:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  1. There are local bookshops that stock the works of self-published authors, but it’s important to build a relationship with those booksellers first.<\/li>
  2. I want to read the works of Australian fantasy author,\u00a0Maria Lewis<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Goodreads Giveaway<\/u><\/b><\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Do you want to read Winter’s Maiden 1<\/b>?<\/i><\/p>

    I have 1 signed paperback and 4 eBook copies to giveaway to five lucky winners. All you need to do is add this book to your Goodreads “Want to Read” shelf and complete the entry form for your chance to win. Entries close 5pm May 21st 2021 (GMT).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdd to Goodreads<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEnter to Win<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It is festival time in Adelaide, which also means I recently attended Writers’ Week. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this event, it is a free festival designed …<\/p>\n

    March 2021 Update<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,59,79],"tags":[48,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlaarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}