A Light in the Darkness: Why We Love Dystopian Fiction
We can’t know the future, but it can be thrilling to speculate about it. Expanding population, climate change, technological advanceme...
Read moreWe can’t know the future, but it can be thrilling to speculate about it. Expanding population, climate change, technological advanceme...
Read moreA synopsis is a one-page summary of your novel, used to demonstrate your story-crafting skills to a literary agent (or publisher). Mos...
Read moreI wonder if the following scenario sounds familiar. You know a writer who has self-published several books. They bashed them out at a ...
Read moreIf you’re an author of fiction and want to follow the traditional route to publication, you’re probably going to need a literary...
Read moreNot so long ago, there weren’t many resources available that would enable an author to self-publish their writing. As the technology e...
Read moreI’d like to welcome Lorna Reid of Author Packages to the blog today! Lorna is a past client of mine – I edited her novel Rise of...
Read moreYou know what beta readers are and where to find them. But how are you to make the most of your reading team? I’m certain of one thing...
Read moreFirst, catch your beta reader… I once came across an online forum where a new writer was asking how to work with beta readers. The top...
Read moreHiring a professional editor to work on your manuscript can be expensive. And there are lots of different editorial services ...
Read moreBeta readers are the people who’ll make your manuscript tighter, better and generally more appealing. The best thing? They’ll usually ...
Read moreFinding your target readership is the best thing you can do to give your novel a fighting chance of success. It’s useful to thin...
Read moreOne of the most prolific writers of magical realism, Salman Rushdie, calls the genre ‘a commingling of the improbable and the mundane’...
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