On Writing

Jools Aguemont

Aug 15, 20203 min read

Critique Partner Love

Why you should have criqique partners and why I am not sharing mine When I was 14 years old, my friend Judith introduced me to the idea...

Jools Aguemont

May 27, 20203 min read

Climb Out Of Your Nightmares

The pep talk you probably didn't need but got anyway. As a child, throughout my teenage years, up to the wise age of 28, I regularly had...

Jools Aguemont

May 2, 20201 min read

Aesthetics for "The One Who Got Away"

I made a few aesthetics today for my upcoming novel "The One Who Got Away". Would be happy to get some feedback on them. Which one do you...

Jools Aguemont

Apr 26, 20203 min read

Why do we call it "women's fiction"?

My current querying conundrum As you may or may not know, I am currently editing a novel. It's set in 2015, the protagonist is a woman at...

Jools Aguemont

Apr 8, 20202 min read

The Snowball-Method applied to Querying

I spoke about using the snowball-method for querying in a few writer groups and people were surprised and had never considered doing it....

Jools Aguemont

Apr 3, 20205 min read

Why Piracy Is Never Okay

The Guardian lately ran an article about book piracy and it revealed some shocking truths and quoted some shocking opinions. I am going...

Jools Aguemont

Mar 30, 20203 min read

The Magic Of Beat Sheets

People say there's two types of authors, those who plan and those who don't. In writer-language that's called "plotters" and "pantsers"....