Developing your craft

On the one hand, this is where I get to make my prose really sing, on the other, these edits often come hot off the heels of major story revisions...

‘The first draft of anything is shit.’ So, apparently, said Hemingway. A misconception held by many inexperienced writers is that the first draft...

As authors, selling our work to a publisher is the Dream — capital D. But that dream is often tinged with fear, because selling a book means...

A successful mentoring experience begins with trust. When I read a piece of work for the first time – even just the opening pages – I will know...

This is a tricky one for you to answer, especially if you’re a perfectionist by nature. Writers can have a tendency to get too close to their book...

For me, my books and stories, fiction and non-fiction, have always begun with a character. The genesis of each narrative has been a single figure...