26 Feb Dea Congratulates Dagger Author Anna Caig on Publication Debut
I had a fantastic evening last night at the Derbyshire launch party of 'The Wise Witch of Orkney' by the delightful Anna Caig....
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07 Jul Fiction Feedback Announces Winner of the Emerging Author Dagger at Awards
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Many congratulations to Joe Eurell, author of ASHLAND, the unpublished crime novel which has won the 2025 CWA Emerging Author Dagger, sponsored by Fiction Feedback....
10 Nov Fiction Feedback Sponsors CWA’s Emerging Author Dagger
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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 Secretary, then General Coordinator, and now Competitions Coordinator at the CWA, so the opportunity for sponsorship was not to be missed. Dea says: ‘The CWA and the wonderful crime writers they support have helped me to pursue the career of my dreams: editing fiction and helping talented writers get published. It’s an honour to give something...
03 Feb Fiction Feedback Author’s ‘Intriguing and Clever’ Thriller Published
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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 and editing services for all his novels, but most especially for this one, where his talent is wonderfully evident in an unusual and gripping story. The Butterfly Wheel is a not your average crime novel. The protagonist is a Jake-the-lad whose motorbike accident at the outset puts him in a wheelchair. Yet Jake, recovering his old...
12 Dec Crafting Crime Online Course Launched
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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 are no classroom sessions, no need to review the work of peers and no other writers commenting on your own work. However, all writers receive a critique of their novel opening and synopsis from Fiction Feedback as part of the couse. The modules are complemented by podcasts where Martin and Dea Parkin, Editor-in-chief of Fiction Feedback...
22 Aug New critique category aimed at submissions
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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 a 1,500-word synopsis. Tip: Please do check carefully what word count the agent, publisher or competition wants, and submit accordingly. Don't assume they'll be OK with a few words over the specified maximum: it's often not the case. Find details and prices here. To send your novel extract in for critique, simply attach it to an email....
11 Oct Bespoke Book Marketing Coaching
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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@lisat148.sg-host.com Photo: Anna Caig (L) and Dea Parkin, Editor-in-Chief at Fiction Feedback ...
14 Aug Submission Package Special
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Writers can benefit from expert assistance when it comes to submissions and we're delighted to offer that help. First, please check that you've done the following. Check using the agent or publisher's website (not just the entry in Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, which can quickly be out of date) that they are accepting submissions, and are interested in your kind of work. Identify the best individual to contact. Check that you've tailored your submission to exactly what they ask for. Look for what they need; usually the opening of your MS, a synopsis and a covering letter but several agents and publishers ask...
04 Feb National Crime Reading Month
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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...
03 Feb Writing competitions: should you enter?
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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,...
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