Blog
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Edited
27th April 2021
The use of sensitivity readers has boomed in the publishing industry. A new kind of beta-reader, they specifically provide feedback on...
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Editing
Learning how to become a more objective reader of your work is a tricky skill to master. In this section on Editing, read through our articles offering help and guidance on how to best approach the editing process, and develop the tools you need to make your work the best it can possibly be ahead of submission to an editor, literary agent or publisher.
Article
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Edited
16th June 2022
Do you need to take a creative writing course or pay for an editing service to get a literary agent? In this extract from Writers' & Artists'...
Blog
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It’s been a while since my last blog post here and a lot has happened. After meetings with a commissioning editor at a ‘Big Five’ publisher, my...
Article
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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...
Article
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‘The first draft of anything is shit.’ So, apparently, said Hemingway. A misconception held by many inexperienced writers is that the first draft...
Article
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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...