Identify an agent who represents authors who write novels in the same genre as yours. One easy way to do this is to identify novels which share similarities to yours on the bookshelves and check the acknowledgements. An author almost always thanks their agent. Then check...
What’s the single biggest flaw I see in writing? It has to be telling and not showing. Both on a micro and a macro scale. Show not tell is perhaps the piece of advice most handed out to writers. But what does it actually mean? Here’s a few pointers, on the...
Rosemary Hagedorn, writing as R M Dorn, has published six science fantasy novels with Lume Books (formerly Endeavour Press). However, her latest novel is based on the adventures of a true-life character, Colonel Joseph Bampfield who came to prominence fighting – and spying – for the...
D J Harrison’s Jenny Parker series, about a woman whose struggle to survive a world of villainy calls into question the reader’s morals and ethics, might be about to get a new lease of life. The series currently stands at four, with Exit Strategy (Lume Books,...
The benefits of entering competitions are significant. They can be career-enhancing and even life-changing. So here's our top five reasons for entering competitions. Our last reason may surprise you, and it applies to all writing competition entrants, not just the winners. So does the fourth...
Austin Hernon, author of two series of historical adventure novels, has a publishing contract for a sixth title from Sapere Books. This will be the third in his Wars of the Magna Carta series, set in twelfth century England and featuring the Siege of Lincoln where...
May is the time for murder and mayhem – hopefully only in books. Usually the NCRM initiative, promoted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), is a month-long series of physical events taking place in bookshops, libraries and literary festivals up and down the country. It’s...
This was a post in January from Fiction Feedback on the blog by ALLi – Alliance of Independent Authors. Writing Competitions: Why Enter, How to Win Dea Parkin, Editor-in-chief at ALLi partner member Fiction Feedback and Secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association, tells us about her experience administrating and reading for...
Fiction Feedback is proud to have helped author Simone on the early iterations of her novel. Congratulations on publication, Simone! The March 2020 Budget presented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak might have been overtaken in all our minds by other events and Government edicts, but it...