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Are you an emerging writer seeking to learn about creating fiction and keen to receive plain-speaking advices? Then a book written by best-selling novelist John Dean, in which he examines the craft behind fiction, could well be for you. In On Writing, John, who is best known for his crime novels, 26 of which have…
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Jerwood Fellowship recipients announced New Writing North has announced that Kym Deyn, Katherine Horrex and J.A.Mensah have been selected as the recipients of the Jerwood Fellowships. The Fellowships support early career published writers of fiction, poetry and narrative non-fiction with a £10,000 cash bursary and a bespoke package of support and mentoring, funded by the…
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Writers can create the finest landscapes, devise the greatest plots and produce the most remarkable prose but they cannot make their narrative truly come to life unless they have devised effective characters. It is your characters who tell your stories, who bring your ideas to life, who engage the reader’s imagination, who make them laugh…
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I am delighted to be asked to write a piece for the latest short fiction anthology published by new Glasgow-based publisher Tantallon Tir, which can be pre-ordered at https://tantallontir.com/call-of-the-isles The publisher says of its latest anthology: “From St Kilda to Samoa, Call of the Isles sails into islands beset with grief, violence, hope, regret, and…
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After a difficult day health-wise, from which I am only just starting to emerge, what a boost it proved when the DCI Jack Harris ebook boxset (nine novels for £1.99, now that’s an offer – publisher The Book Folks, a Joffe Books company) received this review on Amazon. Thank you, anonymous Australian reviewer, you have…
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“I know that some novelists do not plan, just start writing and see where the story takes them, but in my experience that often takes them into a cul-de-sac and things can become horrendously convoluted as they try to write themselves back out. I am one of the many novelists who do plan and I…
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A book written by best-selling novelist John Dean, in which he examines the craft behind fiction, has been published. In On Writing, John, who is best known for his crime novels, 26 of which have been published, sets out to help emerging writers who are learning their craft and also to give readers an insight…
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A question which I am sometimes asked by readers is ‘what do you think is your best book?’ The answer may come over as glib but is absolutely genuine. ‘The next one,’ I say. That is because I genuinely believe that an author never stops learning, however many books they sell and however positive reviews…
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Author Carol Dean has become one of the foremost writers on Native America over recent years with eleven books on the subject to her name. Her Native American history series has covered everything from the Apache and Chief Sitting Bull, to a biography of the last Comanche chief, the little-known Quanah Parker, her account of…
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The Society of Authors is among the creative sector organisations that have launched a report showing the potentially devasting impact on the sector of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has been heralded as the next industrial revolution, promising an age of innovation, limitless productivity and economic growth, but the reports says that such change comes at…
