From idea to final draft
We’re here to help you live—and love—the writing life.
Why invest in your writing with The Novelry?
Courses. Coaching. Community.
Course lessons to guide your writing
Get a lesson a day, timed perfectly to coincide with wherever you are in your book writing journey. Get inspiration and fast-track craft techniques to power you through writing your novel with our one-hour-a-day method.
Coaching for accountability
Hands-on help from bestselling authors and publishing editors from the idea through to the book deal. With one-on-one coaching sessions with your published author mentor and editors from publishers like Penguin Random House.
Community with classes for motivation
Over 40 live classes and workshops every month for you to drop in and enjoy the company of publishing industry professionals and your fellow writing students. On-demand options for you to catch up in your own time.
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One-on-one coaching from bestselling authors
Their books have hit the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists, have been adapted for screen, and optioned for major motion pictures. Every one, a master in their genre. Each trained in our Positive Coaching Method™ to offer hands-on mentoring to nurture your creative process and raise your storytelling game.
Who you learn from, and how you learn, matters. Our unique approach breathes life into budding ideas. You’ll get positive encouragement every step of the way to build your confidence and be able to rely on the gentle accountability of one-on-one coaching sessions at times to suit you. Your coach will believe in you and your story (on the days you don’t) and help you find your voice to write the most exciting version of your story.
With regular personal coaching sessions, you’ll stay on track to finish your book. Plus, at The Novelry, you’re not tied to just one author coach—you can switch or swap at any time to get the right mentor for you, and enjoy expert advice on any aspect of your story.
Imagine having a prize-winning, bestselling author at your side. What difference would that make to your writing?
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Editors from the world’s major publishers
Your coach helps you stay on track to find your story and finish your first draft, and your editor develops the value of your manuscript and takes you to market.
Our editors are from the Big Five—Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. Having published bestselling and award-winning novels, their judgment is trusted. They have long-established relationships with literary agents, by whom they are held in high regard. They are in touch with the best literary agencies on a daily basis and can advise you how to maximize your chances of a home run to a publishing deal. Working as a team, they use their combined industry expertise to give you the feedback you need to make bold decisions and great leaps of progress.
Get expert guidance to finish your novel to traditional publishing standards.
We’re the only creative writing school with Big Five editors.
Submissions to the top global literary agencies
We work with writers to get them ready for major publishing contracts, and TV and film rights. We are in touch with literary agents on a daily basis and prime them on forthcoming manuscripts from our writers with regular meetings.
If your manuscript is a match for one of our trusted literary agents, you will be invited to enter our submissions process. There is no cost for this service and we neither ask for nor accept commission. It is by invitation only.
Literary agencies representing the big names of fiction trust submissions from The Novelry because they’ve come to expect publishing-ready manuscripts from our graduates.
We’re the writing school recommended by leading literary agencies.
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Fun. Flexible. Formidable.
‘The Novelry is more than a course, it’s a lifestyle and it’s the best investment I’ve ever made.’
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Crafting compelling fiction
We support our writers by doing some of the heavy lifting of plotting and planning together, with hands-on help to guide you all the way to achieving your ambitions. But we never forget, you’re the author. We’re here to help you tell your story.
Tools not rules
We don’t believe there is a textbook method or set of rules, templates, or a formula for writing a book.
But the history of fiction provides us with a fantastic set of tools we can use to give our writers fast-track insights and techniques.
Created by Louise Dean, a Booker Prize-listed author, our unique and fun course content will take you through these tools, helping you power through your writing with (relatively) pain-free plotting, saving you time and frustration as you dodge the rookie errors (overwriting and more) and deepen your understanding of how great storytelling works.
The Story First Method™
Readers don’t want fancy words. They want page-turning stories. (So do publishers!)
We start from the ground up by making sure you’re writing a story that excites you and one that’s more likely to get published so you’re not wasting your valuable time. We don’t hold this vital info back from you until after you have written your novel! At The Novelry, you’ll know what’s required for a great story straight from the start so you can write with confidence.
We help you come up with an idea and craft your story (The Classic Storytelling Class) and then we help you write a complete first draft (The Ninety Day Novel). You’ll edit your novel with assistance from a publishing editor (The Big Edit), and polish your manuscript ready for publishing with a full manuscript review (The Ultimate Manuscript Assessment). If your novel is a match for our trusted agents and deemed ready by our editorial team for submission, we will submit your manuscript directly to literary agents on your behalf. From start to finish, we keep our eyes on the success of your story.
Our one-hour-a-day writing method
‘Too busy! I don’t have time!’ That’s what we all say, isn’t it?
There’s never a good time to write a novel, so don’t wait for it!
Forget that snowy mountain lodge with you, the writer, penning your great modern classic, day and night, with no interruptions. Not gonna happen! Here’s the thing—writing your novel only needs your butt on a seat for an hour a day. One hour? No excuses!
Keeping in touch with your novel every day allows for eureka moments in the shower and for real life to infuse every scene. With our help and direction, you won’t need to worry about the mountaintop; you can just take every day of writing as it comes.
Take that one hour a day for you.
Because there’s never a good time to write a novel, now there’s a good place.
The Plan
To plan or not to plan your story? Spreadsheets or ‘follow the main character’? The truth lies in the middle. You need to know your destination, but the route you take is part of the pleasure of writing fiction.
We offer a nimble one-page planning method allowing you to stay on track, updating your route map as all the mysteries of your story unfold on the page. The Plan is what we call our interactive planning form, something our writers update and share with us on a regular basis, enabling us to keep sight of your one-page plan as you develop your story.
The wonder of this one-pager? It contains all the essentials that publishers, literary agents, and readers want from a book. The Plan keeps you safe from idea to edit.
The Five Fs®
Novels don’t use a three-act structure. The novel is an immersive art form, allowing the reader to assume the experience and outlook of the narrator in a particularly intimate relationship, one-to-one. Every novel is, in a sense, a moral journey for the main character. We will walk you through this simple but elegant story structure to deliver a satisfying ending.
Since Aristotle wrote about the form of tragedy (which is at the heart of big stories, even comedic ones), a five-part structure has been used to help articulate longer stories. At The Novelry, we keep it simple; you can literally count the parts of novel structure on one hand with our very own Five Fs.
‘Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.’
