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What is copyright? Copyright protects your creative work and prevents others from using it without your permission. Copyright protection applies to: Original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, including photography and illustration. Sound and music recordings Film and TV recordings Broadcasts The layout of published editions of written, dramatic and musical works. Copyright stops people …
What is Author Averaging? Authors and artists in general may have fluctuating income due to the nature of their work. In year one, you may have a little profit but then the following year, you may have a profit that takes you over the higher rate tax threshold. In order to reduce the tax payable …
#PitchCB is a Twitter pitch party run by Curtis Brown on the fourth Friday of each month. #PitchCB opportunity for writers to pitch their completed works directly to agents. All you need to do is tweet your pitch using the hashtag #PitchCB. If an agent marks your tweet as a favourite you then submit your …
In 2008 I completed my first crime novel and sent the manuscript to twelve London agencies. I was delighted to receive interest from four and quickly signed with a marque crime-specialist agency where I began a painful journey of re-drafting the novel over the next two years. But unfortunately my agent decided the novel was …
by Jacqui Lofthouse Is there such a thing as a ‘mistake’ in writing? It’s a curious question, as of course, there’s no such thing as the ‘perfect’ work of fiction and so it follows that everyone makes mistakes in their writing, all the time. However, the more obvious mistakes most often occur in a first …
by Aliya Ali-Afzal In November I wrote 50k words in one month. It would normally take me a whole year to write that much. So, how did I make this leap? It felt like magic but in reality it was a series of more prosaic steps that anyone can take, to reach a seemingly impossible …
Massive Open Online Courses or MOOC’s are university short courses taught by leading academics. Many MOOC’s use a host platform to teach a course, such as edx.org and are delivered across a number of media, including video, textbooks, workshops and social media. For writers, MOOC’s can inspire, teach and inform. They can give writers an …
With the launch of The Flying Man (Headline) this January, Roopa Farooki has published five novels in five years – here are her tips on how she starts a novel, and how she manages to finish what she starts! What inspires you to write? Like many writers, I am inspired by what is closest to …
Do you find yourself procrastinating or writing endlessly; yet never getting anything completed? Follow seven steps to manage your time more effectively. Start by noting how you spend your time. Are you checking emails instead of writing? Are you spending too much time in rewriting? This step will help you to identify those things that …
Tell us a bit about yourself and how you landed the position of literary agent? I graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 2004 and headed straight to Germany on a European Training Services scheme where I worked for a small independent publisher called Trojan Books. I spent most of my time researching the …