Reading Time: < 1 minute CompletelyNovel and Greene & Heaton Literary Agency, who took part in The Writing Platform fair and conference last September, have joined forces to give self-published authors the opportunity to be considered by an agent. Each month, details of the most popular self-published titles on a Plus or Pro publishing plan at CompletelyNovel will be sent… Read more »
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Cracking the German Book Market
Barbara Thiele
Reading Time: 5 minutes Germany is the second largest market in Europe after the UK for books in English. Barbara Thiele, Chief Product Officer at Berlin-based print and ebook publishing platform, epubli, gives us the lowdown on the German market and offers her top tips for writers hoping to crack it. 5 things to know about German readers and the German… Read more »
News: New Partnerships for The Writing Platform
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can download the press release as a PDF here: QUT and BSU partner with The Writing Platform Queensland University of Technology invests in The Writing Platform and Bath Spa University extends its support in 2014 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has invested in UK project The Writing Platform, becoming its official Australian partner. It joins… Read more »
The New Publisher: Mikrotext Finds Beauty In Short Text
Ramon Dodd
Reading Time: 4 minutes The publishing industry has undergone many changes over the last few years, many of which can be attributed to the disruptions brought about by digital technologies. Alongside the rise of self-/ indie- publishing we are also seeing new types of publisher emerge, publishers who are turning traditional models and methods on their head and finding… Read more »
Landing Gear Online
Kate Pullinger
Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2001 I read an article in the Guardian newspaper that told the story of a body landing in a supermarket car park in southwest London. Two investigative journalists tracked down the identity of the dead man; he was a young Pakistani who had bought – actually paid money to someone – into the myth… Read more »
Amplified Activism: Transmedia Storytelling and Social Change
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: 4 minutes The avenues through which communities and community organisations raise awareness about the issues they face and how they agitate for change have developed rapidly in the past ten years; and digital technology has provided community activists with the means to quickly create and widely disseminate stories. Perhaps the most influential and wide reaching of recent… Read more »
Why Every Writer Needs A Group
Molly Flatt
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” said Ernest Hemingway, whose idea of a great social life involved a remote cabin, dead animals, and the bottom of a brandy glass. “Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.” Isaac Asimov – a self-confessed claustrophile whose greatest childhood wish, according to his autobiography,… Read more »
A Short History of Location-based Writing
Amy Spencer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine a narrative woven through a city street. As a reader you can access fragments of story by navigating a physical space using a digital device such as a smartphone or tablet. As you walk past a library, you might be told about the history of the books inside. Walking part a church might trigger… Read more »
A Poetry Inspired Animation
Liam Owen, Steve Ronnie
Reading Time: 4 minutes An email exchange between Stevie Ronnie and Liam Owen reflecting on the making of Four Years from Now, Walking with My Daughter. An animation by Liam Owen inspired by Stevie Ronnie’s poem of the same name. SR: So Liam, you’re not a big reader of poetry. What made you think about making an animation from my poem?… Read more »
My Wattpad Experience
Emily Benet
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was stuck in a rut. My blogging was sluggish and I’d been working on a novel for two years with no end in sight. I was moaning to my brother over Skype about the slow path my career was taking, when he said: “So write a novel on Wattpad.” He told me his girlfriend was reading a… Read more »