Over the past decade, the Young Adult (YA) fiction market has grown so much, it's a wonder authors are still writing adult books at all. In fact, a 2015 study found that young adults were...
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Ultimate Guide: How To Identify Your Manuscript’s Target Market
Identifying your market is critical to the development and potential sale of your manuscript. An infinite number of variables shape a reader's likes and dislikes. In order to maximise your appeal...
Scenes drive your story forward; without them, there would be no novel. Your scenes need to keep your reader on the edge of their seat with your plot and characters because otherwise, they won't...
How often do you come to the end of a great novel, an enlightening article or an inspiring poem and immediately set out to learn more about the author? You want to know who was responsible for...
There is a romantic myth that surrounds writers. This myth is rife with infatuation, possessiveness and protectiveness: a writer is supposed to be obsessed with their work. Utterly absorbed. If...
It’s an age-old question: is the ability to write creatively an inherent or learned skill? With the wide availability of writing courses at tertiary level in recent years, the question becomes even...