

3 Embarrassing Realisations as a Fiction Writer
It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...

How Stories Really Work -A Practical Manual to Transform Your Fiction
This is the companion volume to How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction, which contains explosive new approaches to...

Northrop Frye: An Order of Words
Canadian Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of the...


General Advice for £45
Would you like a plan of how to build on your strengths as a writer and tackle your weaknesses? Clarendon House Publications will look...


Some Quotes About Fiction
Authors famous and not-so-famous often have something to say about the act and the art of writing fiction itself. Here's a selection of...

The Practical Guide to Transform Your Fiction
You may have struggled to put together a novel or some other kind of fiction. The book How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of...

The Sorrowful State of the Villain
Purely virtuous heroes are hard for us to feel much affinity for. What’s interesting, though, is that as we move away from the complete...

The 7 Pillars of Successful Fiction
1. Core Ideas At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer, whether that’s a very definite idea that you want...


10 Tips to Help You Get Published
Let’s be frank: the real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in...


General Advice for £45
Would you like a plan of how to build on your strengths as a writer and tackle your weaknesses? Clarendon House Publications will look...