Self Publishing for Beginners – RECORDING

Self Publishing for Beginners – RECORDING

Self Publishing for Beginners (Recorded) In a saturated market, where rejection and even ghosting from agents and publishers are an occupational hazard for authors, self-publishing can be a way to take ownership of your writing life. Whether you want to make a...
Character with Emma Darwin – RECORDING

Character with Emma Darwin – RECORDING

Character - recording  Everyone says that character is the foundation of storytelling, but what does that mean? How do you develop convincing, lifelike characters while still using them to power your plot? And what if your story-idea hasn’t arrived with characters at...
Voice & Prose with Emma Darwin – RECORDING

Voice & Prose with Emma Darwin – RECORDING

Voice & Prose  VIMEO Recording of live tutorial Voice is the element which all agents and editors say they are looking for in a manuscript – but that’s by no means the only reason to work hard on the word-by-word text and textures of your novel: in the end, the words...
“Micro” reports and mentoring

“Micro” reports and mentoring

Last month, we looked at the “macro” and the benefits of receiving a full manuscript assessment. However, there are also advantages to focusing on a portion of your work. In this blog post, we ask our clients why they wanted feedback on an extract instead...
Why get a full manuscript assessment?

Why get a full manuscript assessment?

Twenty years ago, editors at publishing houses had time to work with an author on their manuscript, if they saw promise. As the market has become more and more saturated, this job has moved to literary agents. Now, agents are so busy they often don’t have the...