Where is Your Budget for Book Editing Best Spent?
Hiring a professional editor to work on your manuscript can be expensive. And there are lots of different editorial services ...
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Latest from the blogThe Current State of Publishing According to Mark Gottlieb, Literary Agent
What’s going on in the publishing industry these days? In this guest post, Mark Gottlieb, a literary ...
Read moreWhat Are Beta Readers?
Beta readers are the people who’ll make your manuscript tighter, better and generally more appealing. The best thing? They’ll usually ...
Read moreHow to Write a Superhero Story
After a long, close association with comics, superhero fiction is enjoying a literary heyday. So if you’re planning to write a s...
Read moreHow to Find your Target Readership: 4 Ideas for Authors
Finding 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 moreHow Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Affects My Creativity and Mood
I identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP). This has an impact on my mental health, my creativity and my abilities as an editor. Dr...
Read moreWhat is Magical Realism?
One of the most prolific writers of magical realism, Salman Rushdie, calls the genre ‘a commingling of the improbable and the mundane’...
Read moreMy First Time Presenting at a Conference
Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders hosts a conference. Editorial professionals gather to chat, think and learn. This...
Read moreLessons from An Editing Conference
Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders invites its members to gather for a long weekend of chatting, drinking, eating, w...
Read moreWorld Building for Authors: 5 Practical Tips
One of the best things about fiction is the chance to dwell in other worlds, be they slightly or radically different from our own. For...
Read moreSpeculative Fiction and Horror
What makes a novel a ‘horror’? The definition is surprising tricky to nail, largely because horror fiction isn’t the only ...
Read moreFrom First Draft to Finished Novel: How to Bridge the Gap
So you’re ready to start the journey from first draft to finished novel – congratulations! That also means you’ve ticked t...
Read moreThe Best Science-Fiction Subgenres
Science fiction is just about space travel and aliens, right? Nope, nope and nope again. The genre covers a lot more ground than you m...
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