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17th December 2020
Right pleased I was, winning the W&A blurb competition, the prize being a publishing package with the Amazon-owned Createspace. Partly my own...
Ready to publish
You feel you have a finished manuscript and would like to learn more about approaching agents, publishers and/or about independent publishing.
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17th December 2020
This week: she explains her decision to self-publish her novel.
Dazed and confused by the keen interest/no-interest-at-all-anymore...
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17th December 2020
This week: revising and rewriting for literary agents.
Of the twelve submissions I made to literary agents, two of the four who read the...
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17th December 2020
“Yay! I’ve finished my novel… I think.”
You’ve arrived at the open sea—the end—with your ‘book’ a sea-worthy vessel. Now, to test the...
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13th October 2020
Writers are observant people - right? That's why we write good books, because we notice the little things like the shopkeeper's nicotine-stained...
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13th October 2020
How do you commission a book cover?