13 May 2019 - What's new
13 May 2019
- ‘I get gendered questions about the violence. I'll give you a case study: a few years back, I got an email from Lee Child - who I love - saying he just read my recent book and he had just finished writing something with a similar theme. When I was doing press for that book, I got a lot of questions about the violence; Lee didn't get any. And there's Jack Reacher, going around killing around 3,000 people and beating everybody up... Karin Slaughter, author of The Last Widow (to be published in June), Fractured, Faithless, Pretty Girls and 15 other novels in the Bookseller. Our Comment.
- The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 is open to all new writers of Fiction, Poetry and Life Writing. There's an entry fee of £6, 2 entries are £10 and 3 entries £15. The prizes are £1,000 for each category and it closes on 28 June.
- Tips for writers is our 8-part crash course for writers who are starting out, taking you from Promoting Your Writing (and Yourself), to Self-publishing: is it for you? from Keep up to date to Submission to publishers and agents. 'Your research into publishers and agencies should encompass what they say about submissions. Even if you think it makes no sense for them to bar you in this way, there's no point in sending your manuscript to a publisher which does not read its slush-pile or an agent who specifies that no unsolicited material should be submitted...'
- If you're looking for a report on your manuscript, how do you work out which one of our four would suit you best? Which Report? includes our top-of-the range service, the Editor's Report Plus, introduced by popular demand to provide even more detail. This very substantial report takes the form of a chapter-by-chapter breakdown and many writers have found this detail helps them to get their book right. Through our specialist children's editors we can offer reports on children's books.
- Our links: my entire childhood I hoped to write books, and entered the publishing industry after college on the now humorous assumption... that being an editor would help me realize that dream, What Writing a Book Taught Me About Being an Editor | CrimeReads; fascinatingly, the perception many have of book clubs - as primarily social groups with minimal serious discussion - isn't accurate, The Inner Lives of Book Clubs; behind all the talk, what's really been happening with literary translation? Translated Fiction Has Been Growing, or Has It? My self-improvement project for the year was to read a fresh poem every morning, Mary Oliver's Poetry Captures Our Relationship With Technology - The Atlantic; and an entertaining look at writers' pics, Author Photos: A Taxonomy | Literary Hub.
- Our page of Picture library links provides a good starting-point for finding an image for your book, whether it's for the cover or inside. Gograph was the last one we added with its 18 million stock links.
- More links: he has published 28 collections and is on the national curriculum, Simon Armitage: 'Witty and profound' writer to be next Poet Laureate - BBC News; is the low rate of diversity a by-product of the low author earnings exposed by the survey? U.K. Writing Scene Is 'Overwhelmingly White,' Study Finds; a bestseling author with a prodigious work ethic, How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books? | Glamour; in 1999, the main obstacle in getting children interested in reading was their own attention spans, How the Children's Laureate championed young literature - BBC News.
- Poets are naturally keen to see their work in print but it's actually quite hard to get a first collection taken on by a publisher and self-publishing may make a lot of sense. Getting your poetry published.
- From James Baldwin in our Writers' Quotes: 'Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.'
