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Bestselling crime fiction author Caroline Green offers a short introduction to how to write a page-turner.
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Do judge a book by its cover. We make all our purchasing assumptions based on jacket design. Will it be funny chick-lit? Yes, if the cover art style...
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The
day has come – a literary agent has accepted you as a client and your career as
a published writer is taking off.
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What is the role of an editor?
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When I wrote my first novel, 23 years ago, I had a freedom that comes a
novelist’s way but once – the freedom of being a hitherto unpublished...
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Even if you’re not familiar with the name of poet, author and illustrator Giles Andreae, you’ll certainly recognise his work. He is the playful...
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To mark National Writing Day 2020, the Bloomsbury Literary Studies team have looked to their list of authors to provide writing advice on how to stay...
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Author Tim Finch introduces us to his writers' collective and discusses how age doesn't need to count against you becoming a published author at a...
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Like all avid readers, I have a head packed with images and characters I only met in fiction. They become a part of me. As a literary translator,...
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It’s easy to find advice about writing – the internet is full of hints and tips. I have Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Good Writing on my study wall,...
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Debut author Victoria Selman discusses how writing what you know can be interpreted by the author.
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If there are approximately 18,956 (pretty good) reasons not to start writing a book, only one compels so many of us to try. To be published. To have...
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Do you suffer from page fright?
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Where do you write? You’ve probably seen those articles in the newspapers about ‘writers’ rooms’. It’s almost as if there’s a magic to the physical...