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A year of complete guidance and support to write your novel and fulfil your ambition to become an author. We will lead you through the creation of a sound and appealing story idea onto writing a novel, then revising and editing your first draft. You will complete and hold in your hands a manuscript to professional standard ready to pitch to literary agents. Don't leave your success to chance. Write a great story.
With an award-winning author tutor to guide you and keep you on track. Start today.
The Best Year of Your Writing Life.
Achievement, achievement, achievement with our 3-step mentored program.
Choose the courses voted 'best' in the world by The Bookfox.
1. Plan your story with the Classic Course.
Month 1 - 2. Start here to create your novel. An adventure into your unique experience and imagination. 45 inspiring creative writing lessons at your own pace. Learn the secrets to the bestseller classics of all time including JK Rowling, and JRR Tolkien. Plan to write a great story. (£259 or $330 if purchased separately.)
2. Write your book with the Ninety Day Novel Course ®
Months 3 - 7. Be guided step by step with daily lessons from the opening sentence through to ‘The End’. Write at a steady pace and be reassured and directed by the live sessions with your tutor every couple of weeks to keep you on track. Includes six live working sessions. (£747 or $957 if purchased separately.)
3. Revise your novel to publishing standard with The Big Edit.
Months 8 - 12. Be confident that you know how to evaluate your manuscript so that every element fulfils the proper role in your story. Includes 2 live sessions with your tutor with feedback on your work and preparation for pitch to our agents. Become a professional author. (£399 or $499 if purchased separately.)
Make This Your Year.
Our comprehensive book writing package is a fully mentored program and on completion you'll receive a course certificate for your professional profile.
The courses are delivered online and available on a beautiful platform with 'speak aloud' translated text in more than 40 languages. Lessons are given by video and text and your personal tutor sessions are via live video and available to you as recordings.
For writers of any ability, writing in any genre. Beginners warmly welcomed.
Discover Happy Writing.
We are the home of happy writing. Discover why so many writers call their experience with The Novelry 'life-changing'.
Our worldwide community of working novelists is online from Alaska to Adelaide 24/7. We offer live writing classes with acclaimed bestselling and award-winning authors, a social group, and a writers' workshop.
You'll build confidence and enjoy the support of new writing friends.
Happy writing!
Story.
We go hard, heavy and early on story at The Novelry because we know it’s vital to your success. Readers don't buy fiction to be educated, they want stories that move them, excite them and make them feel; to escape reality for a while.
First, with the Classic course, we start work on the STORY (and plot) showing you The Five F's ® of big stories. You'll walk in the footsteps of the bestselling authors of all time and create a unique and original idea. (Hello STORY! Well, look at you now!)
Story.
Then, in the Ninety Day Novel course, we begin by hunkering down on the STORY for the first seven days of the course, eyeballing it from every angle.
You won’t start writing until you’ve had your first working session with your tutor when we throw the story about and look for exciting opportunities. We tighten it so you're clear what it is that makes this story a cracking read. Because we work with literary agents, we have a keen idea of what’s commercially viable and likely to be a hit.
Story.
We will always support you to write the book you want to write. We'll keep you on track and give you care and support, along with our writing community who will keep you smiling and reassure you that what you're feeling and doing is - well - more or less normal.
We pull STORY back into sight in the Big Edit course where we revise the work to be a thing of beauty likely to secure a publishing deal. Enjoy every phase of this magical year and relax, we don’t leave the success of your STORY to chance.
“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”
Alan Bennett
A Fully Supported Year of Writing.
The Book in a Year Plan.
When you sign up for this plan you will have access to all the lessons for all 3 courses.
You can simply let us know after purchase if you would prefer them to be staged and times, with a lesson drip-fed a day. It's up to you!
Enjoy 6 coaching calls while writing your novel, and 2 calls with feedback on your work at the last stage of the course during the Big Edit.
The Book in a Year UK
£1250
Save 20% vs individual course prices
- 9 live sessions with your tutor (one is a new customer welcome call)
- The Classic course
- The Complete Novel course
- The Big Edit
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
The Book in a Year USA
$1650
Save 20% vs individual course prices
- 9 live sessions with your tutor (one is a new customer welcome call)
- The Classic course
- The Complete Novel course
- The Big Edit
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
The Book in a Year Australia
$2375 AUS
Save 20% vs individual course prices
- 9 live sessions with your tutor (one is a new customer welcome call)
- The Classic course
- The Complete Novel course
- The Big Edit
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
Choose Your Author Tutor.
Work with the experienced, author tutor you choose.
If you're not sure, The Novelry's founder Louise Dean will recommend the best tutor for your book at your welcome session.
(Feel free to swap tutors for your one-to-one coaching sessions and benefit from their combined professional expertise while you write your book in any genre.)
Got a Novel in Progress?
The Novel Development Plan.
Or an idea ready to roll? And you'd like to get serious about being published?
Enjoy a 15% discount on the two novel development courses when purchased together as a bundle here.
Enjoy 6 coaching calls while writing your novel, and 2 calls with feedback on to complete your work with the Big Edit.
The Novel Development Plan
£995
Save 15% vs individual course prices
- 8 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Novel course (6 sessions)
- The Big Edit (2 sessions)
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
- Our submission to agents when ready
The Novel Development Plan USA
$1345
Save 15% vs individual course prices
- 8 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Novel course (6 sessions)
- The Big Edit (2 sessions)
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
- Our submission to agents when ready
The Novel Development Plan Australia
$1995 AUS
Save 15% vs individual course prices
- 8 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Novel course (6 sessions)
- The Big Edit (2 sessions)
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
- Our submission to agents when ready
Want to Create a Story and Write a Novel?
The Novel Kickstarter.
You're a writer in search of a big idea and you want to get it written!
A 15% discount on our foundation course for story development The Classic course and our Ninety Day Novel course.
Enjoy 6 coaching calls while writing the first draft of your novel.
The Novel Kickstarter Plan
£849
Save + 15% vs individual course prices
- 6 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Classic course
- The Novel course
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
The Novel Kickstarter Plan USA
$999
Save + 15% vs individual course prices
- 6 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Classic course
- The Novel course
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
The Novel Kickstarter Plan Australia
$1455 AUS
Save +20% vs individual course prices
- 6 live working sessions with a tutor
- The Classic course
- The Novel course
- 12 months access and Membership of the worldwide online community of The Novelry
Our Literary Agency Friends.
The Novelry pitches on your behalf to leading global literary agencies looking for novel writing talent. In recognition of the high standard of work coming out of The Novelry they guarantee to respond within 2 weeks of our submission.
We have a stunning success rate. We pitch only when we've done a lot of hard work with you on your novel to meet publishing standards and we're confident of your success and we're often right.
Join us and achieve your ambition to become a published author with a publishing contract.
As Featured In:
“The ultimate productivity hack.” Forbes Magazine.
“One of the top ten creative writing holidays in the world.” The Telegraph.
“A place for writers to develop their work quickly.” The Bookseller.
“The best course to write your novel.” The Bookfox.
Rated 'Excellent' on Trustpilot.
Give the Gift of Writing a Book.
( It's the very best gift you can give.)
Send the course to someone special.
Simply purchase the course, then email us at [email protected] with your friend's email address and we will send a personalised gift card from you to your lucky friend with a password for access to the course.
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