Isabelle Valente

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The title of my first book is Maltese Heart. I wrote the story when I was fifteen years old – a long time ago now. It is essentially a romantic drama expressing the joys and tragedies of young love. Read more »

Progress

I thought that it might be fun to post a visual thermometer of my progress and the steps taken. As you can see it is only just at the start point at the moment as I’m still working on the design of the site. Read more »

Resources

I thought it might be helpful to fellow authors if I posted the resources I’ve used as I go along. As I am just getting started there isn’t much to post yet but I will add the things I use as I progress. Read more »

Latest News

After two years…

It has been nearly two years since my last post but the good news is that my first novel ‘Maltese Heart’ is only weeks away from being published! More details to follow soon – can’t wait to check out the proof copy. Read more »

How did your month of writing go?

Mine was spent doing as much editing as I could. It seems like the first edit went quickly but now I’m doing my second edit and that is proving to be a lot more time consuming. At some point I will have to decide that enough is enough and let […] Read more »

National Writing Month Starts in November!

National Writing Month Starts in November. You can find lots of details at nanowrimo.org but to summarise the idea is write 50,000 words in the month of November. That figure sounds huge. It is a novel, though the average tends to be a little higher for most published works (but […] Read more »

Time management.

It seems that I’m struggling with one of the biggest battles many of us face… time management. Everyone who works, and tries to keep up with family life knows that it can seem nearly impossible to find time to do it all. Committing to not only writing but also editing […] Read more »

Writing Software

Hi everyone, I have been deep in the editing process but I am also working on my next novel which is what has led me to this post. I took a little time to explore some different writing software. At present I start in longhand (using a nice fountain pen […] Read more »