Sharing feedback and raising issues with us

Hi everyone, I wanted to firstly draw your attention to a couple of additions we’ve made to our community rules. We try to keep a…

Holly 21 June 2021

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Life, story and the need for corsets

It’s easy to think that because life permits something, then story must too. After all, stories are allowed things like starships, unicorns and Dr Evil,…

Harry 18 June 2021

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How to make money from Amazon Ads

Our latest video course has landed!¬† As well as two Summer Festival of Writing events this week, we also have a brand-new video course, exclusively…

Esther 15 June 2021

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Call My Agents – better still they’ll call you!

If you have been anything like me this last year, you have likely been typing away at the keyboard ‚Äì with one eye on the…

Polly 14 June 2021

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Thwackum, Squeers and Griffiths

Back in the day, a top author – such as Henry Fielding, who died in 1754 – would enjoy giving some of his characters names…

Harry 11 June 2021

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Reading like a writer

One of the best things about being a writer is that you can call almost anything research. A relaxing holiday? No, no, I’m researching for…

Elsie 9 June 2021

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How to tell the world that you’re a writer

Establishing an author brand  The Summer Festival of Writing is now in full-swing and we have TWO member-only events happening this week, too. There’s never…

Esther 8 June 2021

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In discussion with Police Procedural Advisor and Author, Graham Bartlett

On the 25th May, the wonderful Graham Bartlett joined us for a live webchat Q&A to discuss all things police procedure and crime, mystery and…

emilydsouza 7 June 2021

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The loon and the prison guard

Last week, I totally forgot about my Friday email until the deadline was starting to loom in a scarily loomy way. (Overhanging by 5 or…

Harry 4 June 2021

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The Summer Festival of Writing starts today!

Summer has officially started It’s the first of June, which means today is the first day of the Summer Festival of Writing 2021! In this…

Sarah 1 June 2021

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