Make Professional Editing Work for You
This is a Building Blocs post from Allison K Williams, an experienced professional editor. Professional editing offers some choice lines of copy. In a recent manuscript I found this…
Building Blocs – Narrative NonFiction
Brendan James Murray, on the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction in narrative nonfiction. There’s currently a turf-war being fought on the Australian literary…
Ask Me Editing | The Bad Romance Edition
This is Ask Me Editing, our publishing advice column with Agony Un-Uncle Elizabeth Flux. Many years ago I worked in an office where I had…
Creative Cupid: Our Writing Mentor Program
Introducing Creative Cupid, our writing mentor program. Writing can be a lonely business. As a writer we have the privilege of spending time creating characters,…
The Art of Romance
Justin Heazlewood, on the art of balancing a relationship and a creative career. When it comes to a choice of partner, there are two schools…
Writers’ Other Jobs | Soap Star
Chiefly though, I’m an actor. A professional one. Which means I spend a lot of time at family gatherings justifying my career choice to relatives…
Eli Glasman on The Book That Gave Me YA Writing Guidance
This is a ‘The Book That…’ post from Eli Glasman. Eli Glasman’s debut novel, The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew (Sleepers Publishing), about a homosexual boy…
The Art of Adaptation
This is Craig Hildebrand-Burke, on what the golden age of TV and Film adaptations means for writers. It’s Oscars season, which inevitably means a whole…
Literary Cities | Valencia
Claire Rosslyn Wilson, on the beauty in the burning fires of Valencia, Spain The smoke is there the next day, caught up in the threads…
Leaving New York
This is Scarlett Harris, with her Obligatory Leaving New York Essay. It all started with Joan Didion’s seminal “Goodbye to All That” essay in 1967…