This week is quick and breezy: the Man Booker Prize longlist is announced.
Weekly Write-Up: 7th August 2019
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Writing Retreats – How to Get Away and Focus on Your Writing
Sometimes you need to get away from it all. How about a writing retreat?
Weekly Write-Up: 31st July 2019
Dean Koontz signs a five-book deal with Amazon Publishing, and World Anvil helps you plot out your fictional universe.
How to Avoid Distractions When Writing
Reading this instead of writing? Get back to work.
Weekly Write-Up: 24th July 2019
Audible announces Audible Captions, and Netflix uses Wattpad to source its Teen Romance series.
6 things indie authors should know about audiobooks
Thinking of entering the world of audiobook publishing? Here are the six steps you’ll need to take.
Weekly Write-Up: 17th July 2019
Amazon turns 25, a father writes 365 stories in as many days for his daughter, and beach-reads are making way for literary fiction.
How to Write About Pain in Fiction
How do you show that your character is in pain, whether that’s physical or psychological? Here are the important factors to consider when writing about violence.
6 (More) Mistakes Writers Make
Everybody makes mistakes in their writing – that’s what editors are for. Here are 6 of the trickier ones.
Weekly Write-Up: 3rd July 2019
Book sales aren’t falling (they’re just changing), and sales of audiobooks are on the rise (see?).
How Freewriting Can Help You Get Over Writer’s Block
Got writer’s block? Maybe freewriting is the solution for you.
Weekly Write-Up: 26th June 2019
The best time to send an email, people getting angry over the misuse of English, and it’s your last chance to enrol in Ads for Authors.
Is Kindle Unlimited the Future?
As subscription models dominate music, films and games, will the ebook industry be taken in the same direction?
Weekly Write-Up: 19th June 2019
Amazon experiments with live-streaming, Mark is a judge for the Kindle Storyteller award, and J.K. Rowling keeps churning out those Harry Potter books.
Why is it So Hard to Adapt a Book?
All but one of Kubrick’s films are based on books, so why so many other book-to-movie adaptations rubbish?
Weekly Write-Up: 12th June 2019
Barnes & Noble is bought by a hedge fund, microgenres continue to be lucrative, and the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books ever (apparently).
I Finished My Book… What Happens Now?
James Blatch’s final draft is ready for editing!
Weekly Write-Up: 5th June 2019
An insight into the agent process, how to build a high-revenue writing business, and Ads for Authors is open again.
How to Punctuate Dialogue
Here’s a handy guide for navigating around the most common stumbling blocks when writing dialogue.
Weekly Write-Up: 29th May 2019
The Kindle now supports Traditional Chinese, and a traditionally published book gets its facts very badly wrong.