Robin Barratt tells how he hopes his new book, Britain’s Toughest Women – chronicling the lives of women bodyguards, bouncers, bodybuilders, boxer, martial artists and MMA fighters in the UK – will be an inspiration to us all. And he also tells how writing something every day has helped him gain success as an author…
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Free advice about writing books, reviews and stories of real-life authors…
How my own family history became a novel…
Novelist Patric Gale – known for his bestsellers set deep in the heart of Cornwall – tells how his latest work, A Place Called Winter, was inspired by his own family history and his great grandfather’s emigration to Canada.
Literary Lifestories … how a ghostwriter can turn your life story into a novel…
Mum of one Natasha Collins tells why she believes documenting your own life story into a novel can be a wonderful gift to pass down the generations – and how she has set up a service helping people do just that…
I turned my real-life experience into a book…
Author Anne Zouroudi, who wed a Greek fisherman, tells how she turned her real life Shirley Valentine experience into a book, was taken on by a top literary agent – and went on to have a successful literary career.
Are you setting your expectations too high?
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton is is being fought over by film directors who believe it will be a blockbuster. But the harsh reality is very, very few authors end up writing books as a job and earning the sort of living that enables them to secure a mortgage from it for example…
How I went from a single mum on benefits to a property millionaire…
Vicki Wusche, 51, was once living off benefits but now lives in west London close to her family with a property portfolio worth over £2 million, three Amazon best-selling books and two property businesses to her name. Here Vicki, mum to daughters Charlie and Kimberley tells sellyourstoryuk.com how she did it… “When I got divorced […]
Author Spot: Catherine Alliott
A prolific author with 13 bestselling titles, Catherine Alliott has built a reputation as the British queen of chick lit. Yet, before she became so successful she was made redundant from her copyrighting job in advertising. Here, she tells how initially she was upset… and how it turned out to be a blessing in disguise…
Author Spot: Paul Apowida
Paul Apowida was born in the remote village of Sirigu in northern Ghana but when he was a baby his family, including his parents, died suddenly. No-one in the community where he lived understood why they had died and they believed Paul was evil and to blame for the deaths of his parents….
Ten dos and don’ts when approaching editors…
Making a good impression from the start is crucial when you are approaching an editor for the first time. Here, we give some essential dos and don’ts…
“But I’m the worst… mum/wife/friend … the new trend for women writers…
Being so proud not to make time to enjoy sex with your husband or devote time to your children – and writing about it – has become a new trend amongst female writers…