Ask An Industry Expert: Annie Aldington

...typical process that has to be gone through before the final audio recording is on disc or ready for digital download? A studio day is usually from 10-5pm. There is...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

...someone over email?! – knowing that telling off a random stranger online means she has reached an all-time low. Everything changes when her boss asks her to go to a...

Jessica Redland: My Path To Selling One Million Books

...of us could work out why things hadn’t taken off for me. I felt like such a failure and started to question whether I could write after all, although I...

Ask An Industry Expert: Debi Alper

...input at all and have always had at least one trusted beta reader. I should also point out that many of the published alumni of the self-edit course also had...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...me, the relationship between an author and editor should always be collaborative; after all we are all working to achieve the same goal – getting great books into readers’ hands!...

Ask An Industry Expert: Agent Louise Buckley

...to attract other genres also. Women’s fiction has always been my emotional heartland and is what I published the most of when I was an editor. So I am always...

Nicole Locke: Secrets Of A Highland Warrior

...fight to the death. In the end Chatten won with the final Kay warrior jumping into the Tay to escape. One of King Robert’s points was to reveal to all...

Nicola Cornick: Escape To An Intriguing Past

...much more sensual historical romance came in and now, slowly, we’re seeing a return in popularity of the traditional books alongside the others. It’s also great to see that LGBTQ...

Finalists: The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award 2024

...paranormal, timeslip (in which a character moves between time periods), time travel novels and books with ‘ghostly’ elements. Bea Fitzgerald for Girl, Goddess, Queen: I am honoured to be shortlisted...

Zoe Allison: Something Unique

...subtly alluded to. This is partly because that’s how I imagined her, but also to a deliberate extent, to try to increase representation. The hero, in my mind, is also...

December 2020: Competition Monthly

...If you receive a critique but disagree with some, or all, of what it says, please don’t go onto social media and around all your friends to tell them what...

November 2019: Competition Monthly

...but it happens. If you receive a critique but disagree with some, or all, of what it says, please don’t go onto social media and around all your friends to...