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If you want to be a published author, you have two main options. You can either self-publish or you can work with a traditional publis...

I wonder if the following scenario sounds familiar. You know a writer who has self-published several books. They bashed them out at a ...

Not so long ago, there weren’t many resources available that would enable an author to self-publish their writing. As the technology e...

Beta readers are the people who’ll make your manuscript tighter, better and generally more appealing. The best thing? They’ll usually ...

Finding your target readership is the best thing you can do to give your novel a fighting chance of success. It’s useful to thin...

One of the most prolific writers of magical realism, Salman Rushdie, calls the genre ‘a commingling of the improbable and the mundane’...

What makes a novel a ‘horror’? The definition is surprising tricky to nail, largely because horror fiction isn’t the only ...

Science fiction is just about space travel and aliens, right? Nope, nope and nope again. The genre covers a lot more ground than you m...

Fantasy stories are only limited by the imagination – and there are so many subgenres in this expansive genre of fiction that it can m...

Often described as the ‘What if …?’ genre, speculative fiction (spec-fic) describes any work where the writer explor...

There’s a very real concern among writers that an editor will damage their writing voice and replace their style. This fear ...

I shouldn’t have checked my inbox that evening. ‘How dare you,’ wrote the client. ‘Never in all my professional life have I been treat...