30 March 2020 - What's new
30 March 2020
- As we all work our way through lockdown, now is a perfect time to finish your manuscript and to get it ready for publication or submission. This page provides a list of our editorial services for writers.
- 'It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now'...
Don DeLillo, author of 17 novels, including Americana, Running Dog, White Noise, Underworld, Libra, Falling Man and Zero. Our Comment. - WritersServices can provide a range of services working on your manuscript, to help you get it ready for submission or self-publishing. We are UK-based, offer exceptional value and our skilled professional editors have been working on writers' manuscripts for 17 years. We have introduced free samples and free assessments on most of these services, please see the individual service page. Copy editing services.
- My Say gives writers a chance to air their views about writing and the writer's life. So we have Natasha Mostert on typing 'The End', Mary Garden on writers' block, Timothy Hallinan on The Writing Session and Dominae Primus on WritersServices.
- Our links: bookshops reporting a significant increase in sales of longer novels and classic fiction, Book sales surge as self-isolating readers buy ‘bucket list' novels | Books | The Guardian; entertainment and educational support for parents, carers and children, Egmont offers 14 days of free content for children stuck at home; with cities and towns across the country under quarantine, bookstores closing, and in-person promotional events canceled, it's not a great time to be publishing a book, As Coronavirus Spreads, Publishers Struggle with When, and How, to Move Pub Dates; and if you're one of those people who always said they would write a novel if only they had the time: this is your moment, Finally working on that novel as you self-isolate? You're not alone | Books | The Guardian.
- 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 new 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.
- More links: I was an audiobook failure. Not a failure at writing the books, mind you, but at listening to them, How to Start a Love Affair with Audiobooks | CrimeReads; one member of the homebound publishing community still trying to find a way to work, Coronavirus: How book publishing may change forever - Los Angeles Times; the outcry from publisher and author groups has been swift and furious, Authors Guild, AAP Outraged by IA's 'National Emergency Library'; from the megaselling author of legal thrillers, Scott Turow Finds the Thrilling Life, in Court and in Books; and I'm a hardboiled kind of gal, The Evolution-and the Future-of the Private Eye | CrimeReads.
- From Julian Barnes in our Writers' Quotes: 'Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.'
- If quotes are your bag, we have superb collections in More Writers' Quotes and Even More Quotes.
