What Are Beta Readers?
Beta readers are the people who’ll make your manuscript tighter, better and generally more appealing. The best thing? They’ll usually ...
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If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a book editor, you might have asked yourself the question: ‘Do I really need a degree for this?’ After all, you probably already know where to put a comma (well, most of the time) and can spot a typo from a mile a...
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After a long, close association with comics, superhero fiction is enjoying a literary heyday. So if you’re planning to write a s...
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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...
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One of the most prolific writers of magical realism, Salman Rushdie, calls the genre ‘a commingling of the improbable and the mundane’...
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Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders hosts a conference. Editorial professionals gather to chat, think and learn. This...
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Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders invites its members to gather for a long weekend of chatting, drinking, eating, w...
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One of the best things about fiction is the chance to dwell in other worlds, be they slightly or radically different from our own. For...
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What makes a novel a ‘horror’? The definition is surprising tricky to nail, largely because horror fiction isn’t the only ...
Read moreThe Best Science-Fiction Subgenres
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...
Read moreWhy I Hate ‘The War of Art’ by Steven Pressfield
I hate The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The way the book is written is deeply, deeply flawed and insanely egotistical. The main id...
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Fantasy stories are only limited by the imagination – and there are so many subgenres in this expansive genre of fiction that it can m...
Read moreHow To Use ‘The Hero’s Journey’ To Structure Your Novel
The hero’s journey is a story structure identified by the American writer and scholar of mythology Joseph Campbell. And it can be a re...
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