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- Satima Flavell
- I am a writer, editor and reviewer based in Perth, Western Australia. I specialise in historical and high or epic fantasy. If you have a manuscript in preparation, don't waste money on editing too early. Instead, let me help with a mini-assessment of your work, based on careful reading of your synopsis and first 20 pages. Then, when you've worked on the manuscript in line with our discussions, I will be happy to do a full edit before you send it off into the big wide world. My fees are very reasonable - for more about my editing work, CLICK HERE
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an excellent anthology that includes my short story 'La Belle Dame', together with great stories from Alan Baxter, Donna Maree Hanson, Sue Burstynski, Nike Sulway and nine more fantastic authors! Just $3.99 from Amazon.
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For Readers, Writers & Editors
- A dilemma about characters
- Adelaide Writers Week, 2009
- Adjectives, commas and confusion
- An artist's conflict
- An editor's role
- Authorial voice, passive writing and the passive voice
- Common misuses: common expressions
- Common misuses: confusing words
- Common misuses: pronouns - subject and object
- Conversations with a character
- Critiquing Groups
- Does length matter?
- Dont sweat the small stuff: formatting
- Free help for writers
- How much magic is too much?
- Know your characters via astrology
- Like to be an editor?
- Modern Writing Techniques
- My best reads of 2007
- My best reads of 2008
- My favourite dead authors
- My favourite modern authors
- My influential authors
- Planning and Flimmering
- Planning vs Flimmering again
- Psychological Spec-Fic
- Readers' pet hates
- Reading, 2009
- Reality check: so you want to be a writer?
- Sensory detail is important!
- Speculative Fiction - what is it?
- Spelling reform?
- Substantive or linking verbs
- The creative cycle
- The promiscuous artist
- The revenge of omni rampant
- The value of "how-to" lists for writers
- Write a decent synopsis
- Writers block 1
- Writers block 2
- Writers block 3
- Writers need editors!
- Writers, Depression and Addiction
- Writing in dialect, accent or register
Interviews with authors
My Blog List
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Happy Publication Day, Brandon Sanderson - Brandon Sanderson‘s exciting new YA fantasy, THE RITHMATIST is published today by Orion Children’s. The books was released in the US last week, and hit the...1 hour ago
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THE HISTORY OF WILLIAM MARSHAL: Episode 15 - In which the Young King is praised for his chivalric qualities and we receive an impression of the hurley burley of a tournament. The Marshal returned to ...2 hours ago
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The Kings’ English Dethorned - Hello to all my friends at Writer Unboxed. So happy to be back with you again this month, and particularly happy to announce the release of my new novel, T...2 hours ago
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How real is your fantasy? - I’ve seen a few posts recently about names – especially character names – in fantasy novels, and how they can either draw a reader in or repel them….and ho...2 hours ago
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A Sense of Infinite Possibility - Some mornings I wake up stunned by what the human race is on the verge of understanding and doing. Those are the days when I really regret that I’m not imm...7 hours ago
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Eggs + Basket = High Hopes - I have decided to not fear the basket. No fear people! What basket you ask? The one with all my eggs in it. You know that saying, right? Well, I am putting...8 hours ago
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Supper, Sleep Clinic, Windows. - Last night I decided to make the Asparagus and Endive salad [image: Asparagus & Endive Salad]which I posted the day before, I even remembered to take a pic...8 hours ago
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The Wig in the Window Blog Tour: A Chat with Kristen Kittscher - Today is our official stop on The Wig in the Window blog tour! We are thrilled to have debut author Kristen Kittscher over to answer our questions about ...9 hours ago
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#243 - a. Word Count: 43,000 b. Title: Patrick – The Younger [Children's Historical Fiction] c. Contact Info: (author name) You know not to start with this becaus...14 hours ago
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‘Winston…was complaining of a slight headache’ - I never cease to get a sense of excitement from opening newly-accessioned files for the first time. Occasionally, documents released to The National Archiv...14 hours ago
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Who would you like to Hangout with? - The Reading Room has partnered with the Australian Women Writers Challenge to organise a series of Hangouts with some of our favourite authors and you are...16 hours ago
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Different voices in your narrative - you're weaving them right now, and you might not know it. - Today I'm working on developing a voice for a character in my new novel (which doesn't have a good title yet). He's a hard guy to work with because he's a ...18 hours ago
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Rowena Cory Daniells books brief reviews… - This is a brief review of Rowena’s books The King’s Bastard Totally enthralling, so easy to get involved with the characters, laughing at their happy bante...18 hours ago
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Madison! I’m at A Room Of One’s Own TOMORROW, 4pm! Note the Time! - I’ll be doing a rare afternoon tour appearance tomorrow in Madison because at 6pm, A Room of One’s Own welcomes the Guests of Honor at Wiscon, the (complet...19 hours ago
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Hit - *Joe:* So tell us about HIT, the 40,000 word prequel to the Codename: Chandler series. *Ann: * Hit takes place before Exposed. Chandler is tasked with ass...20 hours ago
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Is the Past a Foreign Country? - People tend to overemphasize similarities and ignore differences when comparing the present with the past, says Suzannah Lipscomb.21 hours ago
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7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Bring Clarity to Your Blogging - Do you feel like you’ve lost clarity around what it is that you’re trying to do with your blog? I’ve recently bumped into a few bloggers grappling with thi...22 hours ago
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Glen Weldon - Glen Weldon is a freelance writer, book critic and movie reviewer. His new book is Superman: The Unauthorized Biography. Earlier this month I asked Weldon ...23 hours ago
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Flogometer for Rebecca: would you turn the first page? - Submissions invited: If you’d like a fresh look at your opening chapter or prologue, please email your submission to me re the directions at the bottom of th...1 day ago
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Short Story Highlight: “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - Dutch author Thomas Olde Heuvelt has a new story up at Tor.com: The Ink Readers of Doi Saket: It was during a night in the twelfth lunar month of this year...1 day ago
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Daisy’s wedding - We have a contractor at work who is getting married on Saturday, registry office as her ‘real’ wedding will be in Europe next year wit her family. We are g...1 day ago
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Even Alpha Writers Need Beta Readers - *By Tiffany Reisz, @tiffanyreisz * Let’s talk betas! Not the fishies, the people! First of all, what is a beta? You often hear the term in reference to s...1 day ago
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Giving it all away - Yes, well, I'm giving it all up. I had two separate conversations with children today. One was with one of my nephews. It was about how boring his new s...1 day ago
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Death by Comparison - I’m kind of a classic rock geek aficionado, so one of my favorite shows is VH1’s Behind The Music. I think I’ve seen every episode. I remember one a lon...1 day ago
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What I've been reading.... - *Sub-title:* * **If you totally lost your memory, and never regained it back, are you (the previous you) dead?* I have been reading quite a few things lat...1 day ago
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I’m interviewed by Terry W Ervin II - Terry Ervin is the author of books like Flank Hawk and Blood Sword. He was kind enough to invite me over to his site for an interview. I talk about books, ...1 day ago
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Removed almost 10,000 folks from my Writing Tips newsletter - It was not the easiest thing I’ve ever done. There’s something comforting about thinking you’re talking to 21,000+ people at a time. But at the point where...1 day ago
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Calling: adults who remember being teenagers! - I hope to include quotes in my teenage stress guide, quotes from current teenagers and quotes from adults who once were teenagers So, do send me your thoug...2 days ago
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Harper Lee Rights Case - Receiving Presidential Medal Of Freedom This morning I read that Harper Lee, author of *To Kill A Mockingbird*, is in a legal battle with her agent's son...2 days ago
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Silly and in need of mental help - If one keeps tracks of the general insults thrown in one's directions, one gets a consensus of what exactly bothers folks about you. So... let me do a min...2 days ago
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Aurealis Awards 2013 - Before they head south to Conflux next year, the Aurealis Awards this year were again hosted in the fabulous Independent Theatre in North Sydney. It was th...3 days ago
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I am stunned and grateful. - Tonight at the Aurealis Awards, I received the very great honor of the Kris Hembury Encouragement Award. I didn't know Kris — I think I may have met him br...4 days ago
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The Past Future of Publishing. - When most writers think about the future of publishing they think about a world where the ease of e-publishing leads to the market being flooded by m...6 days ago
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Among the Beautiful Living Dead – the movie - If I had to nominate which of my short stories has generated the most questions from fans, it’d have to be “Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie” (“Among the Beaut...6 days ago
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Short Story Competition Win - My short story, “The Silence of Clockwork”, picked up third prize in the Conflux 9 short story competition. I’m especially pleased about this as the story ...6 days ago
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Outrageous French Copyright Grab: ReLIRE Goes Live - *Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware* Just over a year ago, I wrote about a new French law that, under the guise of dealing with the pressing is...6 days ago
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Friday, 4 May 2012
A good review!
Friday, May 04, 2012 | 
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Satima Flavell
Wow, our first review for Mythic Resonance! Feeling right chuffed, I am, after reading what Mario Guslandi says about 'La Belle Dame' on SFRevu. He also speaks well of two stories I edited - Sue Bursztynski's 'Brothers' and Nigel Read's 'Holly and Iron'. And Amanda Greenslade's beautiful cover is right up there on the front page of SFRevu!
Guslandi ends by saying the Mythic Resonance writers 'certainly deserve wider recognition outside Australia'!
Yup, right chuffed, me.
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Drat! I tired to click through to this link and it didn't openm. Then I went to the web site and tried again and it didn't open. I got a grey screen. Someone says something nice about my story and I can't read it! Congrats on the review, anyway, and I have bought the e-book of MR to carry around on my iPad and brag about!
It's working Ok for me, Sue - just keep trying. He said that 'Brothers' was an 'an amazing new take of the Snow White canon'. (He's Italian, so his English is sometimes a bit unconventional!)
Ooh, iPad. Want. Kindle for Desk Top doesn't quite carry the same kudos:-).
That's fantastic, Satima! Congrats. :)
Also, I've nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award.
Wow, another award! I've already got one called 'Versatile Blogger' but I think this must be a different one!
I did finally get through to the review and he can use whatever wording he wants as long as he likes it! ;-)
So, are you guys entering the MR stories in the AAs? It's such a very good collection that it would be a shame not to.
I'm glad you were finally able to read it, Sue. Nice, eh? Yes, I believe Stephen has good intentions of nomming everything for whatever it's eligible for!