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Complete and edit your novel

For those with a story idea or a novel they are ready to reboot to get published.

 

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The Novel Development Course

Have you started but got stuck with writing your novel? Maybe you’ve got a few thousand words in or reached the midpoint and stalled. Or, you have written a first draft, but youre worried your storyline is letting you down. 

Take a brave new approach to writing a new draft with expert advice from our team of publishing professionals and get your story signed off before you start writing this time.

If you are ready to radically overhaul your storytelling structure and begin again, writing to reach publishing standards, the Novel Development Course can take you all the way to the last draft.

 

We’ll rebuild your storyline from the ground up so that you can enjoy crafting it line by line towards a pitch-perfect manuscript. Your program starts with a one-on-one session with your writing coach to review a one-page story plan to understand how each and every element contributes to its pageturning qualities. You will develop expert craft skills, storytelling and self-editing techniques for a polished performance. It’s the only novel writing course created by an award-winning Booker Prize-listed author with publishing editors from the Big Five publishers like Penguin Random House and dedicated bestselling mentors who will guide you from the get-go. Complete that novel with new confidence with the support of our courses, coaching and community.

Their unwavering support and encouragement made this entire process a true joy.’

—Brisa Carleton, now represented by Jane Rotrosen Literary Agency

‘Their unwavering support and encouragement made this entire process a true joy.’

I am so grateful to everyone at The Novelry for their exceptional guidance throughout the writing process of my debut novel. From the moment I joined the Novel Development Course, I felt fortunate to have their brilliant, enthusiastic, and inspiring coaches and editors by my side. Their insightful feedback allowed me to grow as a writer and their unwavering support and encouragement made this entire process a true joy.’ —Brisa Carleton, now represented by Jane Rotrosen Literary Agency, New York.

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Self-paced program

A structured 2-stage pathway with 150+ lessons to a last draft and direct submission to literary agents when ready

One-on-one coaching

6 writer coaching sessions and 2 in-depth editor sessions

Lively student community

With over 40 live classes and workshops a month.

A years access

Flexible payments and easy extension plans to stay with us

1. Write and develop your story      

100 self-paced lessons

6 coaching sessions

Videos, tools and downloads

The Ninety Day Novel

The Ninety Day Novel         

Our Story First Method™ begins with a review of your story to ensure it has everything a prospective publisher or literary agent looks for in a novel before you write or revise your novel. With a lesson a day to guide you, you’ll set up a great story, power through the middle, and raise the stakes towards a satisfying ending. You will have a writing coach at your side for personal sessions every 2 weeks of the 90 days. Our interactive method makes light work of planning, allowing you to relish your writing time of an hour a day and write in small, achievable segments, increasing your daily word count as you write to complete your novel to celebrate typing The End of a novel set for success.

1. The Ninety Day Novel

100+ self-paced lessons

6 coaching sessions

Videos, tools and downloads

The novel writing module

2. Edit your novel       

52 self-paced lessons

2 editorial sessions

Videos, tools and downloads

The Big Edit

The Big Edit      

The Big Edit is the final stage on our program with a structured editing process for writers to revise and polish their manuscripts to the highest standards. You’ll work with a professional book editor, formerly an acquiring editor for major global publishing companies: Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Macmillan and HarperCollins.Our editorial team will oversee your progress from a first planning session to management of the literary agency submission process on your behalf.

2. The Big Edit

52 self-paced lessons

2 editorial sessions

Videos, tools and downloads

The editing module

Your writer coaching sessions

A bestselling author co-pilot published in your genre to help you make those all-important decisions. Schedule your sessions to suit your timetable in all time zones. They’re recorded for you to keep. You’re in great hands.

  • 6 personal coaching sessions of 45 minutes
  • Develop your story in one-to-one sessions with a bestselling author
  • Stay on track with guidance from a story review to a last draft
Choose your writing coach

With writer coaching sessions

Stay on track with a bestselling author coach in 6 personal sessions.

Our writing coach team

With professional editor sessions

Your editorial team were formerly publishing editors from the Big Five publishers with experience editing bestsellers. Our team will guide your revision process and oversee your submissions package for literary agency representation. 

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With professional editor sessions

Big Five editors

Workshops and events       

40+ workshops a month

100’s of recorded masterclasses 

24/7 online community for novelists

Discover the writing group

A thriving community for writers

We’re the largest writing community exclusively for novelists. We offer more live online writing classes on a monthly basis than any other writing school. You’ll find specialist writing workshops for fantasy fiction, science fiction, crime and suspense fiction, historical fiction, romance, literary fiction, young adult, children’s fiction, memoir and more. Enjoy 40+ group online workshops and events every month. Get feedback on your writing from beta-readers who are writers. Meet literary agents and industry professionals. We pride ourselves on a safe and supportive space where serious writing is fun. You’ll make friends and grow as a writer.

The writing group

Discover the writing group

40+ workshops a month

100’s of recorded masterclasses 

24/7 online community for novelists

Literary agency partners        

25+ world-class agencies

For all genres of fiction

In London and New York

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Fast track submission

The writing course program recommended and trusted by world-class agents representing global bestsellers and working with The Big Five. When your manuscript is ready for submission, we’ll make a tailored plan to submit your work directly to the best literary agents for you, and typically they reply within 2 weeks as part of our understanding. We neither ask for nor accept a commission for this; its part of the service. We cannot guarantee representation, but we will always do everything we can to help you. We’re connected to most well-respected literary agencies worldwide.

Literary agency submission

25+ literary agencies

 

25+ world-class agents

For all genres of fiction

In London and New York

Complete your novel

 

Sign up to finish your novel for submission to literary agents.

The Novel Development Course

$ 1865

  • Membership (1 year)
  • The Ninety Day Novel
  • Writer Coaching (6 sessions)
  • The Big Edit
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The Novel Development Course

£ 1550

  • Membership (1 year)
  • The Ninety Day Novel
  • Writer Coaching (6 sessions)
  • The Big Edit
  •  

Sign up

You have our 7-day money-back Happy Writing guarantee should you change your mind.

 

Instalment Payment Plans

🇺🇸 $175 / month
🇬🇧 £149 / month
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Meet our grads who have secured literary agents and gone on to become published authors.

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Your Course Director

Meet our founder, the award-winning novelist who created the program and oversees our student body.

Louise Dean
I gained an immense amount of confidence in storytelling technique’ 

The writing course program with more 5* independent reviews than any other.

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The course was essential to my journey as a writer. I was able to establish a disciplined writing practice that propelled me forward. I gained an immense amount of confidence not just in my abilities as a writer, but in my own ideas and storytelling technique. This experience has given me the confidence to say, –Yes, I am a writer.

— Lacy Blake-Vetter

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The Novelry offered me a way forward to write my story. It allowed me to become disciplined, remain a learner and avoid the brutality of self (‘oh, I'm no good at this really’ or ‘what right do I have to_____’ that sort of thing.) The climate at The Novelry is warm and kind. We are expected to be sincere in our effort. Not everyone needs to be motivated by R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket. Thank you.

— John Bell

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It’s the best thing you can do for your novel. The lessons seemed to match in an uncanny way with whatever set of obstacles I was confronting in this process. The course is just a marvelous aide for the long engagement required to get a work out into print, it seems to me.

— Guy Zimmerman

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