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29th November 2020
In part one we tackled the tricky job of drafting the covering letter, and one week later we followed up with a look at the art of...
Starting out
You have an interest in writing and your thoughts are turning towards committing some ideas to paper, or turning pages of notes into a full manuscript.
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29th November 2020
I was recently invited to take part in a project called Bugged. The idea being that writers eavesdrop on people’s conversations and...
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29th November 2020
12 months in as an aspiring authoress I look back to the first tender weeks of my authorship journey – and give myself a little condescending...
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4th December 2020
What do you guys think about putting together a charity crime anthology?
Like all the best ideas, it was thrown out without any real...
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29th November 2020
Alison is senior lecturer of Kingston’s Publishing MA and as well as author of several books including Is there a Book in You? and...
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16th December 2020
In my last post, I explained how, after writing 20 or so books for young adults, I’d run out of ideas.
Eventually (I already had a book...