Good storytellers differentiate between a crisis and conflict; whilst beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict that makes readers care about the characters enduring the crisis. Here's why you should try both.
Talking about interesting stuff relating to writers and the world of writing in general.
Saturday, 28 November 2020
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
P030 SUBMITTING TO LITERARY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
You’ve written your book and need to promote it. One way of doing it is to find ways of advertising through literary journals and magazines. It's a good way to link your book to local interest subjects. Here's how.
Saturday, 21 November 2020
B020 HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR HORROR BOOK
This blog podcast looks at the way movie makers use trailers to advertise their movie and how you can utilise and adapt their techniques to promote your horror book.
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
P29 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT2
In the 2nd part of this podcast about writing a children's book we continue with working with an illustrator, how to revise, how to edit and cut out the dross and finally how to publish.
Sunday, 15 November 2020
P28 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT1
This two-part podcast concentrates on some easy steps to writing a children's book. We start with generating a concept that works, creating a character children will love, knowing the length to write and structuring a good plot.
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
B019 HOW TO ORGANISE A STORYTELLING SESSION
Whether you are doing it live or online you should always be prepared when it comes to doing storytelling sessions. Here are a few tips and ideas to help get you started.
Thursday, 22 October 2020
P027 TIPS TO CREATE A GOOD AUTHOR WEBSITE
Every author should have a website that compliments their written work. In this podcast Award-winning website creator and author, Ann Brady offers you some tips to help create a good author website.