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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fiction Feedback is proud to have helped author Simone on the early iterations of her novel. Congratulations on publication, Simone! The March 2020 Budget presented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak might have been overtaken in all our minds by other events and Government edicts, but it...