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Life Cycle of a Book in Translation

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Another extremely informative infographic, following on from Life Cycle of a Book, which shows you the various processes a book goes through to be published as a translation . This comes from Publishing Trendsetter and is accompanied by a series of video explanations from publishing staff from across the world.  Read more

Life Cycle of a Book

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A brilliantly informative infographic which shows you the various processes a book goes through to be traditionally published. This comes from Publishing Trendsetter and is accompanied by a series of video explanations from publishing staff in the various departments, showing what they do. It's really clear and useful.  Read more

Guardian Style Guide

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Excellent Guardian site has useful up-to-date style British English style guide.  Much recommended, to the probable surprise of those for whom the Guardian is renowned for its errors. http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide

 

Keoz.com

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Useful portal which takes you to a lot of other links, including sections of fantasy, fiction and horror. http://keoz.com

Writer's Dream Tools

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Useful site which offers day-by-day calendar of events and Internet humour for free, plus a subscription service to a mass of other reference material, including a slang thesaurus, clichés, humorous quotations and a handy collection of lists. This is Larry Belling's personal collection, compiled over 25 years. www.writersdreamtools.com

Adam Maxwell's Fiction Lounge

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Author Maxwell's website offers a Character Name Generator and a Writing Prompts Generator which is quite fun if you're stuck on what to write next, plus short stories and flash fiction, all served up in a sardonic tone. www.adammaxwell.com

Literary Market Place

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This site uses the huge publishing database belonging to the American publishing bible Literary Market Place

This site uses the huge publishing database belonging to the American publishing bible Literary Market Place, but free access is only to the small press listings and publishers' names and addresses. To get access to all the other information and to use of their powerful search facility, the annual fee is $399. www.literarymarketplace.com/lmp/us/index_us.asp

, but free access is only to the small press listings and publishers' names and addresses. To get access to all the other information and to use of their powerful search facility, the annual fee is $399. www.literarymarketplace.com/lmp/us/index_us.asp

Writers Free Reference

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Handy American reference site which gives links to a wide range of different information sources, from bay names to song lyrics, from daily newspapers to international postal codes. www.writers-free-reference.com

All Readers

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Rather unusual site which allows you to look up books and their authors by searching on plot lines and other elements. www.allreaders.com

Megan Kerr

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We've included the website of this enterprising writer and ghost-writer because it includes useful resources such as The Publishing Machine, a free database to do all your admin for you, and a toolbar to sort out your layout and styles, useful templates for Word and Excel, and a quick tutorial on Styles and formatting in Word. http://www.andrew.kerr.name/megan/Writing/Writing.htm

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4 January 2021 - What's new

January 2021
  • ‘The thing I like about novels is that they are a more forgiving form. You can make missteps. It's harder to write a really good short story - I'm more aware of the flaws in my short stories.
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The 2021 International Book and Pamphlet Competition

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Closing date: 
1 March 2021
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Open internationally. Entry fee £28, £25 to subscribers to The North
Prize: 
Publication by Smith|Doorstop Books; a share of £2,000 cash; a launch reading; publication in the North magazine; book vouchers from Inpress Books

The 2021 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is now open for entries

Judged by Daljit Nagra & Pascale Petit

DEADLINE: last post on Monday 1st March 2021, or midnight on Monday 1st March 2021 for online entrants.

ENTRY FEE: £28, or £25 for North subscribers, Friends of the Poetry Business and members of the Poetry Society.  Read more

'People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.'

— C. JoyBell C.

'I have to know where I'm going'

4 January 2021

‘When I'm putting together a novel, I leave all the doors and windows open so the characters can come in and just as easily leave. I don't take notes. Once I start writing things down, I feel like I'm nailing the story in place. When I rely on my faulty memory, the pieces are free to move.  Read more

28 December 2020 - What's new

December 2020
  • ‘No one reads your book as closely as a translator does, which is something you learn very quickly. I'm in such awe of them. They also read beneath it and around it. They make me consider things I thought I knew the meaning of because I use those words in everyday dialect and that's how the characters express themselves.
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