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Member Guides & Help Essential how-to information about the Colony, and the best place to ask for help
The Prime Directive
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The Colony Is A Deep Resource, Here's Your Handbook
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Café Life
The Colony's main salon… Of all the gin joints in all the towns of the world… this is the best!
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Self-Publishing
Not just for self-publishers… Also featuring the dark arts of book marketing & publicity, self-promotion and more
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Writers' Huddle
Led by Peter Cox, Huddles are part live workshops, part boot camps and part party! Bring your synopses, titles, blurbs, first chapters – and questions… lots of them. Huddles are included in your Full Membership! Booking essential.
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The Writing Laboratory The Colony's creative nexus. Critiques on your work-in-progress. Meet like-minded writers – and get to work!
User Guides To Every Type Of Available Critique
Please read (and watch) our friendly user guides that will help you select the best types of critiques for your work in development
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Craft Chat
Writers sharing their skills, tricks & insights with other writers… that’s how you learn the Craft!
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Poetry - The World Between the Words
That which is not prose must be poetry; and this is the place for it.
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The FLASH Club
Our monthly tiny-but-perfectly-formed flash fiction contest!
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The Book Club
It's a book club for all members... but not as you know it
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LITOPIA WRITERS’ SEMINARS
Litopia’s Writers’ Seminars are a powerful new reinterpretation of the tired – and frequently over-priced – seminar format for writers… All the information you need to become a highly-effective writer… included in your Full Membership subscription!
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The Marketplace Buying and selling
The Marketplace
Buy or sell your books, your services, or any other chattels or wares
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The Trouble with PropheciesDerrick never saw the point of being a hero... till he made friends with some.- Jake E
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Photography and Drone footageCompetitively priced terrestrial and aerial photography and videography
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Thought For The Day
If you love to....
“If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period. Life will always have hardships, pressure, and incredibly...
Blog Posts
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What’s the deal?
My experience with deal sites. This one is for the writers. Last week, I ran a promotion for my nove ...
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Padre Pio and I
I’ve always had a sense of affinity with the Mystic Padre Pio and the fact that he was born the sa ...
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Writing ‘Rules’
Don’t Start with a Character Waking Up, Looking in the Mirror, or with a Hangover On Pop-Up Submis ...
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Writing Disability
(Disclaimer: although not politically perfect, I’m going to use the familiarity of the term ‘di ...
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A Younger Man’s Trousers
Brown spots on the back of my hands and my daughters laugh when I dance. Bloomin’ awful ache in my ...
Fanfare!
Fanfare!
Pleased To Announce A Major Deal...
Huge congratulations to you both! I look forward to diving into the freaky rainforest! :bottle-with-popping-cork::clinking-glasses::palm-tree::)
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Double win for a Pop-ups panellist!
He was always a very supportive panellist. Good on him. :clapping-hands:
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Pizza Perfection? Time will tell
Very nice seems a perfect score.
In Palermo we wanted to eat at a place where we always saw people. Finally a quiet evening and everything we...
