Fall in love with a cozy holiday romance set in Ireland and/or Scotland.
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Do you dream of inheriting a bookstore in a small town in Ireland? Have you ever tried to save the local bakery that made your favorite...
Amy Quick Parrish
Jul 83 min read
Favorite Romantasy Novels Set in Scotland and Ireland
Kind of a specific title, eh? Like many of us, I started out with Harry Potter -- not specifically romance, but paranormal and Scottish,...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Jun 234 min read
The 7 Biggest Self Publishing Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid
Unprofessional cover. There's literally no reason to have a bad cover these days. There are numerous high-quality highly skilled...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Mar 244 min read
My 10 Favorite Reads This Year
Last June I splurged on a new Kindle Scribe that came a free three month trial for Kindle Unlimited. With July and August ahead of me and...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 222 min read
8 Tips for the Budding Novelist
Read every day. The best writers learn from what they read. Read everything from poetry to genre fiction to award-winning writers and...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 221 min read
The 8 Best Things About Writing Young Adult Paranormal Romance
You get to escape into a new world. You get to be a young adult again! Perpetually! You get to live an exciting, daring life without...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 222 min read
9 Tricks About Adapting A Screenplay Into A Novel You Wish You Knew Before
Use the screenplay as the outline. Kick out those slug lines and turn them into sentences. Present tense? Past tense? First person, third...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 221 min read
Top 5 Vacation Spots that Inspired My Writing
The Alhambra in Granada, Spain inspired my award-winning feature screenplay, The Court of Lions. My young adult adventure/romance novel,...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 221 min read
9 Solid Reasons To Avoid Adapting A Screenplay Into A Novel
You enjoy sending query letters, writing loglines and worrying about your synopsis. You like to spend $75 per script per contest every...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 221 min read
The 9 Best Things About Adapting A Screenplay Into A Novel
Plot is no problem. You already have an outstanding outline to follow and you've already written act one, act two and act three. You...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 222 min read
7 Tips About Visiting Scotland You Need To Know
Pack a waterproof jacket and dress in layers. Consider packing rain boots. You'll be hiking in the woods, walking in cities, and it rains...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 221 min read
What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Writing Sweet Christmas Romance
Here are three classic Shakespeare plays to get you started with some ideas. Romeo and Juliet -- Can you have characters who come from...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 211 min read
The 10 Best Things About Writing Sweet Christmas Romance Novels
You get to think about Christmas all year long! Write in your Christmas PJs! Hot chocolate with whipped cream and Christmas sprinkles...
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Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 213 min read
The Slacker's Guide to Writing a Sweet Christmas Romance Novel
I'm a slacker. Really. Card-carrying. I have a DVD of Richard Linklater's film, Slacker, which he signed at the end of my internship at...
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