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The Independent News- Carlos Fuentes, author of The Old Gringo, dies at 83 May 15, 2012Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a critic of governments in Mexico and the US, died yesterday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83. […]
- When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone, By Philip Gould May 15, 2012Whatever one's political affiliation, Philip Gould, who died aged 61 in 2011, should be seen as an immensely talented man. As strategic advisor to Tony Blair, he worked tirelessly for New Labour. He was a visiting professor at the LSE, and author of a book on Labour's revival. When Gould was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2008, he was to emba […]
- Secondhand Daylight, By D J Taylor May 14, 2012Following At the Chime of a City Clock, this is D J Taylor's tenth novel and his second James Ross mystery. The narrator, Ross, is a déclassé ex-public schoolboy footloose in pre-war London who earns a crust (the idiom is catching) as a rent collector, nightclub doorman, aspiring poet, ladies' man and copper's nark. […]
- 'Love can overcome brutality': foreign fiction award won by Holocaust novel May 14, 2012An octogenarian Holocaust survivor has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for a novel loosely based on his experiences during the Second World War in which he escaped from a labour camp. […]
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‘YouWriteOn’ Book of The Year Award Winners 2011
Congratulations to Robbie Smith, the winner of the 2011 Adult Fiction Award with his first novel ‘The Grower’. This apparently gentle trundle around the topic of allotments and the gentlefolk who dig for pleasure turns into nothing of the sort. … Continue reading
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How To Start A Book – Seven Tips For New Writers
How do I start a book? It’s an honest question, and one many seek answers to . . . and few find. Writers seem reluctant to divulge what drives them to write a specific book and, if the truth be … Continue reading
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Tagged book writer, how to start a book, non fiction, tips for new writers
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Ebooks – the new opportunity for aspiring writers to get published
Ebooks have arrived. Of that there’s little doubt. Over the past decade many companies have tried to launch ereaders that would bring the book reading habit to millions, but it took Amazon and its Kindle reader to set the market … Continue reading
Posted in Book Editing, Book Publishing, Book Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged amazon, aspiring writers, ebook, ereaders, writing project
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How to Find A Book Editor To Help You Write And Publish A Book
Easier said than done! I write books, and help others do the same and then get published, so it may be helpful if I describe how I first found an editor. It was pure luck! I bumped into her at … Continue reading
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Tagged editing services, how to find a book editor, professional editor, writeaway
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Choosing a Book Title and Getting Published
Win Millions Here – Writing that Book You are one step away from a fortune. Put your cross against the book you think will sell most copies in its first week: Behind the Bike Shed – by Lucy Willing …. … Continue reading
An Editor’s Role in the Book Writing Process
Writers write and editors edit. Editors who attempt to muscle-in on the writer’s function need shooting – or deleting – at birth. But the temptation to suggest a word here, or a phrase there, is always present and hard not … Continue reading
Writing That First Book
Not everyone has a book in them, believe you me! But with a little teasing out, most of us have the ability to write a book, and here at WriteAway we pass on the tips that can make it happen … Continue reading
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Tagged book writing, literary establishment, promising writers, writing project
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How to publish a book
Interesting real publishers and legitimate literary agents Of course, my title is a tease. And this article is all about submitting manuscripts to publishers and literary agents which they might find appealing – the kind that makes them a profit! … Continue reading
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