The Novel Writing Blog.
Welcome to the home of happy writing.
The Winner is...
We're on fire.
We are a community of writers dedicated to pushing, cheering, dragging, cajoling, bribing each other over the finishing line of 'The End'.
The purpose of The Novelry is to make sure that each and every one of our member's manuscripts is 100% safe at submission. This means putting it through its paces and many, many rounds of checks and fine balances most crucially, in the final stages at the Members Lodge.
Round after round of revision at the Members Lodge - based on the guidance given - means that manuscript will only be rejected because of an agent's personal peccadillo, and not because:
- It doesn't make sense
- The writing's bad
- The story sucks
None of these will apply to one of our manuscripts.
We are men and women who have become comrades in ink. We turn to each other. We salute each other, we cheer, and yes, we do whinge a bit when the mood takes us. We like it that way.
We are about to celebrate the first anniversary of Kritikme and...
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The Author.
Louise Dean
Founder of The Novelry.
Louise Dean is the award-winning Booker longlisted author of novels published internationally. Winner Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize. Winner Le Prince Maurice. An Oprah Book Club Choice. Longlisted for The Guardian First Book and The International Dublin Literary Award,
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