We're very proud to have supplied Elliot Sweeney with critiques and copy-editing support before his debut novel went on submission to agents. ...
Pushing Doors Marked Pull is a delightful memoir from PC Jim Graham and we were pleased to critique it! ...
Fiction Feedback hints for impressing an agent...
What’s the single biggest flaw I see in writing? It has to be telling and not showing. Both on a micro and a macro scale. Show not tell is perhaps the piece of advice most handed out to writers. But what does it actually mean? Here’s a few pointers...
Rosemary Hagedorn, writing as R M Dorn, has published six science fantasy novels with Lume Books (formerly Endeavour Press). However, her latest novel is based on the adventures of a true-life character, Colonel Joseph Bampfield...
D J Harrison’s Jenny Parker series, about a woman whose struggle to survive a world of villainy calls into question the reader’s morals and ethics, might be about to get a new lease of life....
The benefits of entering competitions are significant. They can be career-enhancing and even life-changing. So here's our top five reasons for entering competitions. Our last reason may surprise you, and it applies to all writing competition entrants, not just the winners. ...
Austin Hernon, author of two series of historical adventure novels, has a publishing contract for a sixth title from Sapere Books. This will be the third in his Wars of the Magna Carta series, set in twelfth century England and featuring the Siege of Lincoln ...
May is the time for murder and mayhem – hopefully only in books. Usually the NCRM initiative, promoted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), is a month-long series of physical events taking place in bookshops, libraries and literary festivals up and down the country. It’s obviously not going to be like that in May 2020, so the CWA have come up with online ideas instead. If crime fiction and non-fiction is your thing, pop along to www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk for YouTube videos of Crime Writers in Residence and for blog posts from authors under lockdown. For for all-year-round info, blogs and short...
This was a post in January from Fiction Feedback on the blog by ALLi – Alliance of Independent Authors. Writing Competitions: Why Enter, How to Win Dea Parkin, Editor-in-chief at ALLi partner member Fiction Feedback and Secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association, tells us about her experience administrating and reading for major writing competitions and advises how best to go about preparing your entry. I’ve worked with the Crime Writers’ Association running their international competitions, the CWA Debut Dagger and the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition, for five years now and have judged entries for several national short story competitions for well over a decade. In this time,...