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Alma Alexander

I was born in a town on the banks of an ancient river, in a country which no longer exists, Yugoslavia. I lived in three different homes before I was ten, and then left the country of my birth, never to live there again. In the years that followed, I attended eight different schools in five different countries. I am a voracious reader, and a...

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Worldweavers: Cybermage
by Alma Alexander

This year at the Wandless Academy feels all wrong to Thea. Her best friend, Magpie, will barely give her the time of day. Ben's been moody and dismissive. Since when did Tess have a boyfriend? And why is Humphrey May, agent for the Federal Bureau of Magic, lurking around the Academy? Thea is out of sorts—in all ways, magical and...

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Alma Alexander's Worldweaver Blog

THURSDAY 11 MARCH, 2010

And there you have it -

after all the discussion of "writing rules" and the Holy Ten Laws of Writing as propounded (differently) by every author you ask - here's the true holy grail of it all. What would you do if you could only do ONE thing? Write the living daylights out of your book. It's the first, it's the strongest,...