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Seven million
adults in the UK have serious problems with reading and two million can
barely read. News Review looks at the new World Book Day Quick Reads
initiative.
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Frankfurt Book Fair and the globalisation of the publishing business
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The Man Booker Prize - a triumph for a distinguished author or 'the worst,
certainly the most perverse, and perhaps the most indefensible choice in the
36-year history of the contest' News Review looks at the furore
surrounding this year's Prize.
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News Review looks all the activity surrounding the short story and wonders
whether it will succeed in changing people's perceptions and creating a
readership for them.
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News Review examines how National Poetry Day and the relaunch of the
Children's Poetry Bookshelf are working to make poetry fun. 'And does all this activity make a difference? Well, yes, it really does.'
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'The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nation's
well-being.'
John Buchan
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Invasion of copyright or service to authors? Chas Jones
looks at the Google Print controversy and explains why
WritersPrintShop
will be offering this as a facility for writers using our self-publishing
service.
Our design, print and distribution service for self-publishers. The
latest addition to the service is our WritersPrintShop online bookshop,
which will sell your book for you on the Internet as soon as it's published.
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Writing Handbooks
The fourth very helpful excerpt from this title from the A & C Black Writing
Handbooks series looks at Getting Off to the Right start by
understanding the classic structure of the novel and determining your
novel's ideal length:
'OK, you have your target genre, a story idea and some characters.
Why not just start writing? Because without some kind of plan, a map of
the route your story will take, you’re practically guaranteed to start
with a bang and, sooner or later, look up and say, ‘Now what?’
Check out our latest review:
'Attaché can help you to organise your
sketches, ideas, exercises and essays in a way that will help you
extract articles. Attaché is not going to help you write your literary
novel but it might be excellent for a work of non-fiction.'
Our new competition draws on the
2006 Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, which supplies the agents'
listings on the WritersServices site. The entrant who gets
all three questions right will win copies of the new edition of the
book.
Julia McCutchen, author of
The Writer's Journey: From Inspiration to Publication joins
WritersServices this week with the launch of our new Coaching service.
This new service offers you the opportunity to develop your writing with
the benefit of individual feedback, personal guidance and practical
advice.
If you're wondering what exactly coaching is, Julia article shows
you how individual coaching can help a writer by giving the opportunity
to work with a publishing professional who has inside knowledge of what
publishers and agents are looking for.
Julia believes that given the right circumstances, we can all
access our true writer’s voice and have a deeply rewarding experience of
writing.
Buy Julia's book online through WritersServices.
For more details.
Check out the 15 different editorial services we offer, from Reports to
Copy editing, Typing to Contract vetting. Our latest new service is
Coaching (see this page).
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There is a big difference between knowing what to do and actually doing
it when it come to writing Bob confides in his diary. And now the government
is inventing 'virtual crime' how can real fiction compete.
'We are in the world of intending to commit a
crime, the world of Minority Report, the world of pre-crime.'
This week
WritersPrintShop
We have revamped our WritersPrintShop
website with lots more information. If you're thinking
about self-publishing,
this is the place to find out what's
involved. If you're ready to go ahead, our high quality service is second
to none and there's an economy version for those who want to
tackle some of the work themselves. You can
estimate
the cost.
Getting the most our of MS Word
We know that 90% of you use MS 'Word', so we have a new
series showing how to use some of the more obscure, but potentially useful,
facilities. We start off with
Auto-correcting.
New
agents' listing
The agents' listings from the Writers' and Artists'
Yearbook 2006 have just been put up on the site. There's the usual fully
updated list of UK agents and also a
new list of international agents,
which range from Australia to Russia, from Germany to South Africa, and
naturally includes a large section on American agents.
The new edition has the latest listings of publishers
around the world and 57 articles about getting published, making it 'a must
for established and aspiring writers'. (Society of Authors)
Try our new survey
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Writers' Forum Column
John Jenkins on why Neil Simon's story of signing away the rights
on Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple was a mistake; why
writers should always back up: Terry Pratchett's tips about being a writer;
and the battle for Ottakar's: 'As Simon writes: From that day I never received a penny royalties from
these two works. My children will never see the money nor my grandchildren.
Nobody stole it from me but I just wish that the business manager from
Paramount had been my business manager.' The Editor's View, written by the Editor of
Writers' Forum magazine.
Chas Jones shows you how to work out where your email has come from to
help you identify - and be on guard against - spammers.
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