Developing your craft

You've been writing for a while and nearly have a full draft of a manuscript, or a collection of finished shorter pieces of work, under your belt.

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15th April 2025
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Your PhD and your monograph should be – and are – different. Here are some aspects of your thesis that usually need to be changed for your book.
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26th March 2025
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My book, Don't Go To Work, The World Is Ending, is a fantasy novel, and, like all good fantasy novels, has a wise fortune teller about a...

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25th February 2025
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Jamie Smart will be the first ever Creative of the Fair at The London Book Fair. We spoke to the author-illustrator about his career so far and...
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In the third of this article series, editor Dea Parkin describes which different types of ‘editing’ an aspiring novelist can expect their work to...