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After typing ‘The End’ in your manuscript, what should be your next step? How can you ensure that your carefully crafted words reach as many readers as possible? Until about 15 years ago, there was essentially only one viable path to the market: find an...
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The Challenge The gap between the idea. the story, or the events of a life, and the screen or written page is huge. Ask any writer about the daily challenge of getting the words out of their head and into a space that can be read by others, and they’ll talk ...
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Has any book ever before so dominated the news agenda on both sides of the Atlantic (and beyond) for what feels like months and months? In the lead up to publication of Spare on 6th January, the Mail, Express and others frothed daily over the possible story lines,...
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If you’re considering writing a book, you might be asking yourself how do I even start? If you look around for advice, there are about as many ways as there are authors. For fiction, broadly, the advice can be parcelled into three or four approaches. Some writers...
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I don’t know about you, but when I pick a non-fiction title in a bookshop, I flick straight to the back in search of the index. It’s an old habit formed of an awareness that a well-constructed index is perhaps the most reliable and efficient means to understand...
