Liz Monument

Recently, I’ve been privileged to connect with three writers who used aspects of real-life family history to craft their novels. Families provide excellent and often exciting sources of ‘remembered’ information, from wartime heroics and smart inventors to colourful eccentrics…

Many years ago, when my bookshelves were filled with ‘how to’ manuals on writing, I remember struggling with the popular wisdom that writers should make a ‘character board’ for every character they invent. I associated these kind of pictoral…

A client recently asked me how the mechanics of publishing work. This client has no interest in self-publishing; rather, he’s hoping to take the mainstream route when his novel is ready. I decided to blog about this because there…

In 2010, when I was pregnant with my second child, I had a part-time teaching job, a lively toddler, and a stack of unpublished fiction on my bookshelf that I despaired would ever make it into print. Like many aspiring…

Over the last few years, I’ve been privileged to join many writers on their on-going creative journeys, some who are already published, others who aspire to see their work in print. I’ve been asked to offer editorial advice on…

Today, my Script Doctor service went live. I’m delighted to be able to offer editing and structural services for writers of fiction and memoir, based on everything I’ve learned and achieved over the past few years as a full-time writer/editor. 

It’s been a long time since I blogged, mainly due to having moved to the other side of the world. I took a brief intercalation from my PhD, which helped with the readjustment, then picked up writing where I’d left…

Fahrenheit Press tweeted the following. It won't last forever but it made me smile:

The design team at Fahrenheit have created a wonderful cover (they also came up with the new title 'Iteration' to replace my working title 'Jennifer's Garden') - and the book is due to hit the shelves tomorrow. 

Here’s the…

 
  
My MA novel The Eternity Fund was shortlisted for Mslexia’s unpublished novel competition in 2013. The shortlisting may have been a factor in securing me an agent four months later - it added something to my covering letter, making…