You’ll enjoy personal writing coaching via Zoom video calls with the author tutor of your choice while you write your novel, and from our in-house editorial team when you edit your manuscript. You’ll be supported all the way.

Your course will guide you how to choose the tutor who's right for you. And don't worry, the wonderful thing about The Novelry is you can enjoy the expertise of any tutor when you want. So you can stay faithful to your best writing buddy tutor or play the field.

All calls and feedback reports are recorded and yours to keep. We work across all time zones and will be sure to find a time that works for you.

The Book in a Year includes all four of our writing courses to take your novel through four stages from the first idea to a polished draft ready for submission: The Big Idea, The Classic Course, The Novel Course, and The Big Edit.

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Take a deep dive into spellbinding fiction to learn the secret ingredients of the most classic and biggest-selling novels. You’ll be shown how to combine the familiar and the unfamiliar to develop and grow a story idea that’s uniquely and powerfully yours. By the end of the course, you’ll have fleshed out your idea to have what you need to start writing your novel.

It’s time to get that novel written. With over 100 daily lessons to spur on your writing and elevate your prose, and regular one-to-one tutor calls to keep you on track, this is the course to get your first draft down on paper. Received wisdom says it takes three months – or ninety days – to form a habit. On the Novel Course, we’ll make sitting down to write for ninety days feel like a magical slice of time in the day that’s only for you. In just ninety days, you could have a complete draft of your novel.

Take a look inside the novel course here.

Take your manuscript to a professional publishing standard. This is the course for writers who are ready to turn a first draft into a finished novel. It will cover everything you need to know about editing: starting with rebooting the pitch, finessing the plot, binding character and theme, through to elevating your prose sentence by sentence – and the enormous importance of that first chapter. The course is overseen by our editorial department formerly of Penguin Random House who will get your story into great shape before you revise it and help you prepare the perfect submissions package with a killer pitch, a streamlined synopsis and a manuscript that will seduce agents and publishers.

Join our friendly community of fellow writers at our online writing group, with weekly writing classes, plus enjoy access to all our live events including Live Q&As with bestselling guest authors and literary agents. You'll enjoy specialist genre writing groups and workshops and benefit from feedback on your work from other writers.

The Book in a Year is suitable for writers at all stages, including beginners. This is more than a writing course: we take writers through writing their books and onwards to find a literary agent, on an individual basis. One by one. Step by step.

Take each part of the course at your own speed. Relax. Plenty of time, plenty of support. Our team will follow your progress and help you stay on track. 

Having someone to talk about your novel and writing process with is invaluable – someone who knows and loves your story as much as you do. Someone who has walked the walk and published their own books, too.

The Novelry was founded by Booker Prize-listed novelist Louise Dean, who creates the course content and runs regular member team chats, with published authors in a variety of genres to work closely with you on your story and mentor you (and cheer you on!) through every step of the way as you write your novel. Meet the author tutors here.

When you come to edit your novel, our in-house editors – all of whom have experience working at ‘Big Five’ publishers – will help you overhaul and polish your manuscript, and help you create a great synopsis, pitch letter for literary agents and, most importantly, a fantastic novel that stands out from the rest. Meet the Editorial Team here.

The Novelry is the writing course preferred by literary agencies. We have relationships with leading literary agencies in the US and the UK, and our editorial team can submit your manuscript to agents at the end of the course, if you wish. We don’t charge commission or a fee for this – we simply want our writers to have the best possible chance at being published. It’s what we do. See your partner literary agencies here.

Working with other writers and building relationships is an important but often overlooked part of the writing process. Build a trusted circle of peers to turn to for encouragement, advice and friendship. Because writing has its ups and downs common to all of us, you'll need support from people who get it. Our 'buddy' scheme will enable you to make personal close working friendships and our workshop groups by genre mean you enjoy small working sessions facilitated by our team of experts to help you focus and stay on track in great company. We keep it cosy and kindly at The Novelry.

This is a flexible writing course you can take at your own pace around your other commitments. But we fully understand that sometimes, life can get in the way – so if you need more time, you can extend your course and rollover your tutor calls with our affordable extension plans. So you can get on with the writing without the worry. You have as much time as you need.

You can bolt on additional paid calls with our author tutors and editors any time you need them.

A notebook, a pen, and a computer with decent internet connection for the online lessons and Zoom video chats. That’s it. Our bespoke online learning platform is easy to use, even for the less tech savvy among us! Relax and enjoy your writing.

We can't promise to get you published. What we do is give you all the tools you need to write and edit your novel to the best possible standard, with help, support and feedback from industry professionals to aide you in writing a brilliant book. Our close relationships with leading literary agencies means agents read our submissions quickly and with great interest. They know we’ll send them good work. We have a strong track record of getting our members agent representation. You can find our testimonials here. The Novelry has a five-star rating on Trustpilot.

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