13 May 2013 - What's new
13 May 2013
- This week's publishing sensation is James Oswald, Scottish farmer and writer, who has achieved his current success because of single-minded determination to publicise his work. Through his own efforts he reached the top of the Kindle bestseller lists in the UK and has used this self-publishing success to find a publisher. News Review
- Getting your manuscript copy edited - if you are looking for copy editing online, it is difficult to ensure that you are getting a professional copy editor who will do a good job on your manuscript. WritersServices has now made its copy editing service unique, as it will offer as standard TWO versions of your script, one prepared using 'track changes' and one with all the changes accepted. Our copy editing service.
- 'Video games influence our narrative structures; people are telling stories in the way we never had before. I think people can be snobby about that, but people used to be snobby about the influence of cinema on literature. But if you look at Source Code that movie is essentially a structured video game as you keep reloading and trying again. That type of storytelling is bleeding into books. Christopher Bookmyre, author of Bedlam, in the Bookseller, quoted in our Comment column.
- Our Writing Opportunity of the week is the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, the UK's biggest national competition for playwriting, which closes on 3 June.
- Our Tips series is an 8-part series which starts with Improve your writing and ends with Submission to agents and publishers.
- 'The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.' - Dagobert Runes in our Writers' Quotes.
