Liz Monument

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…

Why is editorial help important? How can independent advice improve a manuscript?

As a writer, you can only get so far on your own before you need an outside eye. Even bestselling authors have a regular editor. The…

Genre describes the category to which fiction (or non-fiction) belongs. Crime, romance, Sci Fi, fantasy, memoir - these are all examples of different genres. The question is, why is genre important?

Genre fictions (horror, fantasy, romance, crime…

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

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My MA novel The Eternity Fund was shortlisted for Mslexia’s unpublished novel competition in 2013.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…

Recently, I came face to face with one of those odd little unsolvable mysteries.

I was ordering an on-line shop including ice cream for the kids, when I noticed that the Morrisons site had somehow put a picture of The…

  
Fahrenheit Press's Chris McVeigh has signed The Eternity Fund, which is now a published e-book, and will soon become, for the first time, a paperback. This is after what seems like a very long wait, during which time the novel…

About a month ago, a friend asked me to write an article for an e-zine. I duly wrote it and submitted the text with a selection of JPeg photographs, then continued with my novel-in-progress, wondering if and when the piece…