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From the Desk of Emylia Hall.
This is not my first draft rodeo... (not that you’d know it).
‘The first draft of anything is shit,’ said Ernest Hemingway. I’ve always...
How to write a bestselling book and make tons of money by Meg Rosoff, who once wrote a book that sold a couple of million copies and made her tons of money, but has been unable to repeat that trick...
'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.'
L.P. Hartley
From the Desk of our Tutor Kate Riordan.
I always think it’s strange when people...
From the Desk of Polly Ho-Yen.
How do we ‘manage’ evil in the stories we are telling?
Writing for children means I often write with children. When I’m running writing workshops in...
Veronica Henry is the bestselling author of romance novels and a journalist whose first novel was published in 2002. Her novel 'A Night on the Orient Express' won The Romantic Novel of the Year...
Sarah Winman is the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God Was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways and Tin Man. Her new novel Still Life is published in June 2021. ...
Erin Kelly is the author of eight novels, the bestselling author of psychological thrillers. Her sixth novel He Said/She Said spent six weeks in the Sunday Times top 10...
From the Desk of Val McDermid.
One of the reasons for the popularity of crime fiction is its faithfulness to the idea of narrative. Crime novels provide their readers with stories that engage with...
The video above will reveal to you the name of the winner of this year's Firestarter at The Novelry. (You may wish to hold off until you've read the following.)
This the fourth year of our annual...
Our new tutor at The Novelry, the bestselling author, Harriet Tyce, weighs in on the big question with her own experience as a student.
From the Desk of Harriet Tyce.
We all remember the good...
From the Desk of Nikesh Shukla.
A lot of writers talk about the importance of voice, so I’m going to talk to you about the importance of soul. Because the best writing, the writing...
"Marry me, Juliet. You'll never have to be alone."
Taylor Swift
The end of solitude? Or a value choice? What's behind a love story? In a time in which we are all ragged, estranged, and feeling...
Writing a Dystopian Novel.
Five Reasons To Write A Dystopia.
(Warning: Spoilers for ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin, ‘1984’ by George Orwell, ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’...
Silvia Molteni is a literary agent at PFD. Peters Fraser + Dunlop (PFD) is one of our twelve partner literary agencies. We submit our writers work in preference to these warm-hearted,...
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