What’s a Book Blurb and Why is it Important?
A book blurb is the writing on the back of a book telling you what the book is about. It can also be called a back cover blurb or a book description. It’s a short description of the book’s main character
10 Tips to Help You Write An Amazing Synopsis of Your Novel
Is there anything worse in this world than having to write a synopsis? Because I can’t think of anything and there’s a reason why this task is seen as the absolute bane of an author’s life. If you’ve never heard of
My top tip for always remembering where your heroine’s loo is
Have you ever realised you’ve made a mistake with the layout of one of your character’s houses? Maybe you gave them a piano in a sitting room in chapter 1, but it’s materialised in the dining room by chapter 6. Or
MY SNAKES AND LADDER WRITING JOURNEY – JANE CABLE
Ever since reading Little Women as a child I wanted to be a writer. Maybe even before that, I don’t know, because I was tremendously precocious and had poems published when I was seven years old. But so often ‘real life’
Are Romance Writers Avoiding Covid?
With a global pandemic still very much surrounding us and affecting our day-to-day lives as well as life-changing events such as getting married and being able to meet a special someone, books set in contemporary times are still very much
Lockdown Writing
It’s been well over a year now since Covid-19 first made an appearance, and since then people’s lives have been very different indeed. I was interested to find out how the pandemic has affected writers in particular, both in how they
Finding The Time
Often one of the biggest hurdles facing aspiring authors isn't lack of inspiration or even talent, it's just finding the time to fit a decent amount of writing in, and let's face it, an unfinished manuscript isn't much use to
How to Plan Effectively
Oh the irony of being asked to write this guest post! It still pains me to recall the hours, no, the days, of agony I experienced due to NOT planning effectively whilst writing my debut novel 'The Green Hills of