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Children’s books giveaway – winners!
We’re really pleased to announce the five winners of our Children’s books giveaway competition. All of the following entrants win a copy of How Ali Ferguson Saved Houdini (RRP £5.99) by Elen Caldecott.
- Dawn Totton (Newcastle)
- Katherine Grieve (Stockport)
- David Walker (Castleford)
- Heather Simpson (Dunfermline)
- Robin Brooksbank (Derby)
Congratulations to all of our winners. And if you’d like to stand a chance of winning one of our great prizes, please keep an eye on the site for future competitions.
How to win a 2011 Yearbook – in just one minute
If you’d like to get your hands on a shiny new copy of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2011 or the Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2011, then enter our ‘one-minute’ Twitter competition today.
To enter, you have to do two things. They’ll take about one minute of your time, and then you’ll be Read more
Winners of Qatari Voices giveaway!
We’re delighted to announce the 5 winners of our recent Qatari Voices book giveaway.
We’d like to congratulate Deirdre Daglish, Andrea Quigley, Jean Webster, Shankutkumar Somaiya and Robert Webber, who each win a copy of the Qatari Voices anthology, published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.
And don’t forget to keep an eye on this website for more book giveaways!
Children’s books giveaway!
Five lucky readers of this blog will each win a copy of this brilliant new children’s book from Bloomsbury Publishing.
We are giving away 5 copies of How Ali Ferguson Saved Houdini (RRP £5.99) by Elen Caldecott.
Bloomsbury author Elen Caldecott is guest blogging about her experience of writing children’s fiction and you can read her post now » Read more
The accidental writer
Filed under: Competitions and Offers, Getting Published
This month I find myself behind on a deadline that I agreed to nearly two years ago.
Finishing a manuscript can be a daunting task – especially when you are 30,000 words short as I am and it is not fiction but non-fiction. Not to say that writing is ever easy but when you are dependent on facts rather than imagination, the word count meter can seem Read more
Pindar Diamond winners!
We’re thrilled to announce the 5 winners of our recent Pindar Diamond book giveaway.
We’d like to congratulate Jenny Hampshire, Ruth Doughty, Eve Fleetwood, Nick Surgey and John Robson, who each win a copy of The Pindar Diamond by Katie Hickman, published by Bloomsbury.
And keep an eye on the website as we’ll be running more book giveaways soon!
Free book download!
Right now over at the Bloomsbury website you can get a free download of My Love Lies Bleeding, part of Alyxandra Harvey’s thrilling vampire series.
But hurry – it’s only available until midday tomorrow, 6 July.
Happy reading!
Short stories, poems – what’s the point?
Filed under: Competitions and Offers, Getting Published
I am often contacted by authors who are writing short stories, and want to know what their chances of getting published are. There is good news and bad news.
The bad news is that most publishers will only publish short stories if you are an established author. Even the most well-known authors will sell fewer books if they write short stories, and bookshops stock fewer short story collections on their shelves.
So what’s the good news then? Read more
Giveaway: Win The Pindar Diamond!
Five lucky readers of this blog will each win a copy of this brilliant new book from Bloomsbury.
We are giving away 5 copies of The Pindar Diamond (RRP £11.99) by Katie Hickman.
Bloomsbury author Katie Hickman spoke at our recent How To Get Published conference and is also a guest blogger for this site – see her posts How do you begin a novel? and Read more
Win tickets to Latitude festival!!
Hurrah, the festival season is well and truly here and our colleagues at Bloomsbury are running a competition for writers to win tickets to Latitude. Check it out below!
Write your own Tiny Play about Britain and you could win weekend camping tickets for two at Latitude Festival 2010.
As part of the prize you will see your Tiny Play performed in a set by Craig Taylor, the author of One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, and actors on Saturday 17 July at 9.40pm in the Latitude Literary Arena and Sunday 18 July at 6.20pm in the Latitude Theatre Arena. Read more
Buy the 2011 Yearbook
The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook is available at a discount from our online bookshop. Get all the information, contacts and advice you could need.On camera: Jon McGregor
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The novelist and journalist Julie Myerson on how she got that all-important first publishing deal. Click here to view our video exclusive »