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Learn what a story really is...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Markets of various kinds all around the world are being transformed by the rise of the internet, and the world of publishing is no...

Tolkien wrote essays and poetry discussing the importance of art and myth, quite apart from his Middle-earth tales. There’s evidence in...

Did you know it was a Yorkshireman who invented Venn diagrams? John Venn (1834 – 1923) born in Kingston upon Hull, was a mathematician,...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Passion? Austen? What does that even mean? Passion in terms of a love between heroine and hero, and how it is presented to the reader by...

Obviously you’ve got goals for your writing - right? Not just the goal of penning a best-seller and being able to retire on the profits,...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844, the eldest of nine children. Though he had won a poetry contest at school, he was devoutly...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

'I am a product [...of] endless books’, said C. S. Lewis. ‘My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There...