In November 2024, we were delighted to announce that we'll be sponsoring the Crime Writers' Association Emerging Author Dagger - formerly known as the Debut Dagger. Dea Parkin, founder of Fiction Feedback and Editor-in-chief, has long been involved with the Dagger in her capacity as first...
Congratulations to our long-time author Austin Hernon who has had An Empire Lost, the third and final novel in his series about Berengaria of Navarre, Queen of England published by Sapere Books....
Keith Short's The Butterfly Wheel, a thriller with many twists and turns set in and around Cheltenham and Gloucester, is now available as an ebook after the paperback was published at the end of 2022. Keith Short is a an author who has used our critique...
UPDATE ON THE BLACKSHIRT THRILLERS Late 2024 In autumn 2024 Level Best Books published Blackshirt Rebellion, the third in the Agents of Room Z trilogy by Jason Monaghan about a spy planted in the fascist movement in England in the 1930s. It takes history and gives...
Fiction Feedback has launched Crafting Crime, an online crime writing course with award-winning author and editor Martin Edwards. The course comprises 12 modules and is aimed at potential crime writers with a certain level of experience who would like to learn alone and study independently. There...
Fiction Feedback has added a new critique service for submissions of the opening of a novel - whether it's to an agent or publisher, or for a competition. The word count is a maximum 5,000. This might for instance include 3,000 words of the novel and...
Back in the dark reaches of 2020 Fiction Feedback critiqued two books by this author, Exodus of Spies and Coincidence of Spies....
We have launched our book marketing course, BookMarketingPro, the first course Fiction Feedback has offered. It's one-to-one, and tailored to your writing, your experience and your aspirations and marketing aptitudes. For more, see Resources. Email us: info@fictionfeedback.co.uk Photo: Anna Caig (L) and Dea Parkin, Editor-in-Chief at Fiction...
Maybe you’ve not finished your novel yet, but you’re sensibly looking ahead. Or maybe your novel is completed and edited, your cover designed, the book ready to go. Maybe you have an agent and contract, maybe you’re publishing independently....
Writing a query letter is tricky, striking the crucial balance between informing and persuading. Hard facts rather than verbosity are your best ally here and these are the points an agent or publisher will look for you to cover in your query letter....