8 NaNoWriMo Tips NaNoWriMo — or National Novel Writing Month — is almost upon us! We’ve got some great Nanowrimo tips coming up. Nanowrimo kicks off November 1st and if you take part you commit to writing 50k words in the month of November. There’s a great...
Awesome YA/MG Books Coming Out September 2020 With the world being the way it is at the moment, we’ve had a lot of postponements in children’s publishing, and authors now (especially debut authors!) need all the support they can get! So here are some...
Journey To Publication: How I got an agent There are many paths to publication, all of which are valid and a very individual choice for the writer. The following blog post is written by Emily Lowrey, as she documents her own journey to publication. Part one will...
How to Describe your Characters Character description can be a challenge. How much information is too much? Which parts are your readers even interested in? How do you describe your character without falling into age-old clichè territory? Let’s have a look! In this...
Backstory: How to write backstory effectively Backstory is important. Having the reader learn more about your character’s past can help them understand who they are and how they’ll react in certain situations. However, there’s a fine line between giving useful...