Rude awakening: three essential rules for writing good sex
theguardian.com – Friday August 28, 2015
Serious fiction should not ignore physical love, but it's hard to get right. Here are a few lessons I've learned.
Top Tips for "Aspiring" Writers
huffingtonpost.co.uk – Wednesday August 26, 2015
I'm often asked if I have any nuggets of wisdom for aspiring writers.
Being me; terrible at stringing sentences together verbally, and often angsty about my work, I tend to deflect, self-deprecatingly, and redirect the question back into the conversation.
A Book Well Worth the Wait
publishersweekly.com – Sunday August 23, 2015
An editor publishes a book by a writer whose work he fell in love with 20 years ago.
Revealed: Why the Dragon Tattoo girl is really a man (...and why Stieg Larsson wrote off Inspector Morse)
dailymail.co.uk – Sunday August 23, 2015
The heroine should act like a man while the hero should be a ‘bimbo' – and neither should ever behave like Inspector Morse.
These are the bizarre rules of crime writing, according to the stunningly successful author of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
ePublish and Be Damned!
huffingtonpost.com – Saturday August 22, 2015
There's an old cliché in the ink stained trade from which I hail, "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
But in 2004, when I was young, dumb and full of cum, I paid no heed to caution or wisdom. I had a daredevil idea, for a non-fiction book about jails in the USA, and submitted the proposal to several literary agencies based out of London.
Markets: Send out your writing!
mmegi.bw – Friday August 21, 2015
Are you looking for a place to send that short story you just finished? Do you need an agent to submit your work in UK or USA? Do you have an idea for a perfect children's book?
Making a living from writing, writing from making a living
theguardian.com – Thursday August 20, 2015
For authors from Ken Kesey to Nathan Filer and Christie Watson, conventional working life has provided a vital resource – and not only in getting the rent paid.
Authonomy writing community closed by HarperCollins
theguardian.com – Thursday August 20, 2015
Authors are mourning the closure of Authonomy, the online community for would-be writers set up by HarperCollins seven years ago as a way to source new talent.
Reply to a bad review
firstwriter.com – Thursday August 20, 2015
In the years that we've been publishing our Writers' Handbook and other titles we've been pleased to get a lot of good reviews: previous editions score averages of four stars on Amazon, and an amazing 70% of reviewers for our 2015 edition gave it the maximum score: five out of five. Customers have called it "excellent", a "wonderful book" and "a must have for writers" – but, inevitably, amongst the generally positive reviews there are also the occasional negative ones. This is only to be expected, of course – you can't please all of the people all of the time – but it can be frustrating when the criticism comes not from a fault with the book, but a customer's misunderstanding of the intent. This isn't the customer's fault, of course – it identifies that, in that instance, we've failed to adequately communicate the reasons for the choices that have been made.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Wednesday August 19, 2015
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