Surveys

The results of previous surveys

Writing habit
Reading habits
Motivation to write
What new writers need
Getting a publishing deal
The Future of self-publishing
Book buying habits and motivations

The results provide an insight to the realities of the writer's life.

Getting started:

• You want more mentoring schemes and that secondary education could do much more to teach writing.
• More support from the big publishers.
• Everybody wants a literary agent to help bring their work to publication.
• Interestingly, a part-time job was not seen as the answer.
• Scholarships and subsidies were, surprisingly, not popular with respondents. You wanted more investment by publishers in new writers.

Where do you like to read?

What technology do you employ for your writing?

A writer's ambitions

About half our respondent tend to be based in Europe and a quarter in North America. The median age is always in the late 30's and the gender split is normally 55:45, Women to Men.

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