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Since launching our new-look Writers’ & Artists’ website, thousands of you have dropped in to see us online, which is what we’d only dared to hope back when we were tweaking designs and sorting out coding.
But are you getting the very most from the site? There are a few simple things you can do to boost your experience, other than the obvious, of course, which is to add www.writersandartists.co.uk to your bookmarks and then have a mosey around the home page:
- Get snooping around the articles as they’re jam-packed with helpful advice from people who’ve been there, done that, and come out the other side with pearls of wisdom. Check out Q&As with artist 'Edward Monkton', author Neil Gaiman, or literary agent Catherine Clarke.
- Once you’ve soaked up the Most Read blog posts, browse the blog by category – we have added nearly 100 posts on everything from using your website as a portfolio to publishing in the year 2020. There’s a huge depth and variety of info hiding just below the latest posts.
- If you haven’t done so already, register on the site. It doesn’t take long and it’ll give you unlimited access to our full range of independently researched listings, covering everything from publishing houses to magazines to literary agents to commercial art studios to radio producers to picture libraries to, well, it’s a long list. Sign in and you’ll see what I mean!
- The extra benefit of registering is that you can create a user profile. Hundreds of you have already done this and I’ve been enjoying the biogs, not one of which is average or typical, rather you’re an inspiring and diverse range of creative people, spanning students about to embark on creative writing courses at university to professional actors, published authors, keen bloggers and contributors to some of the longest-standing publications in the UK.
- Get in touch with other users, either by adding a comment to the blog, or by registering and then searching those carefully crafted user profiles. Perhaps you want to collaborate on an exciting new project, or you admire someone’s artwork and want to know more. Maybe you’re just a friendly sort. Whatever it is, find a fellow user and get messaging via their Contact Me box.
After all, it’s good to share. And it’s very good to get into social networking - more on which will be appearing soon in an upcoming post from one of our guest bloggers.
Best wishes,
(Publisher, Yearbooks)
Writing stage
Yes, times are tough. Only today I walked by the woefully empty shell of the Borders store on Oxford Street, London, closed after more than a decade in the capital. But for all that, this much is true: talent will always shine through in the end, no matter what. As for agents, keep an eye out tomorrow, as literary agent Judy Chilcote will be blogging about what gets her attention in the current climate.