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https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-novel-award-international-writing-prize/

https://bluepencilagency.com/online-tutorials-and-q-a/

I got feedback from them. It is a group of writers and publishing people who formed an agency. You will get value for money-as they try to give what they would want to pay for, but yeah. They are trying to monetise what they know. Still another comp that is worth the money if you've got it to...

This one is expensive for what you get. 65.00. And I know someone who won it one year and didnt find an agent or publisher from her meetings, but did subsequently from introductions. Tends towards the highbrow serious work over genre. However there is surrounding info that could be useful...

ProWritingAid is running a competition for the first 5k of an unpublished novel. Rather big prizes: 50K USD for the winner and (as far as I can make out) 5K for five runner ups. I think there's a fee if you don't subscribe to their service. I had a quick look at the judges in the panel, and...

https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-novel-award-international-writing-prize/ I am loosely defining literary as non genre here-but have a look at previous winners. If you are writing similarly - then this is worth taking a swing at.

Apologies for being MIA the last few weeks, I'm dancing on many stages these days! But I'd like to recommend a great podcast/vblog I have been binging about novel marketing: Novel Marketing This guy is really smart. Another channel I found to be very useful in the my self-publishing journey...

There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader into a new world of experience; it is an experiment. A bad book, unless the writing...

Adela worked in a famous Mexican circus during the time of the Revolution (1910-1917). She and her boyfriend were the main attraction of the show. Night after night, Adela stood against a wooden wall with her limbs outstretched while her blind boyfriend hurled knives that landed perilously...

Hello I've written a fantasy novel, and I've joined this group because, after making changes based on feedback from a writing group, editing, re-editing, and then editing on Grammarly, I'm seeking more feedback on all aspects of the novel. This could be on the style of writing, the plot, the...

VAL MCDERMID JUDGES THE 2ND "CRIMEBITS" PRIZE FOR BEST OPENING TO A CRIME BOOK Ends on Thu, Mar 13, 2025 11:59 PM MAKE YOUR FIRST PAGE COUNT... Building on the successful book CRIMEBITS selected and introduced and judged by LEE CHILD, published as a paperback in the UK and USA November 1...

The prompt this month was to complete “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” in a novel way. In this, you manifestly succeeded :) In fact, this was arguably the best OPS contest we've run so far. The results are as follows (remember, you voted for the winners, and each entry was...

I just read this blog post by Chuck Wendig (link below) and it sounds like a fun/cool thing for us to do too. List 5 things you’ve learned writing a now completed novel/novella. It doesn’t have to be things about the book, it can be things you learned about yourself, or some interesting tidbit...

Make understandable misunderstandings happen, hook sentence at end of paragraph, and most importantly, personify abstract concepts. state the story idea in one sentence, two max. scene outline -each scene must move the story forward Dialogue: excites, has white spaces (no more than...

New blog post by Rachel McCarron My First Crit Do you remember your first time? Was it exciting? Were you nervous? Did you just want to get it over with? One of the most wonderful of the many wonderful features of the Litopia Colony is The Lab, where writers can go to experiment with their...

Hello, I'm Anaximander, I'm 55 years old, I live in the Netherlands. Been a member since September but only now getting around to checking out the site. I'm working on a fantasy novel; I'm almost at the end of Act I and currently I'm sick and tired of it and in need of a breather. I've been...

Hi Litopians! In reviewing a draft of my novel, I have come to realize I have been overlooking punctuation and grammar. Right now am looking at my use of the word "that". I have problems pinpointing when "that" can be removed, and I also have trouble deciding on the "that vs which" issue. I...

I think every novel is a rite of passage . . . there seems to be a karmic force in my imagination where even if I threw something away, it would just come back. Like maybe I wanna try to throw this away and not write this, but it would just resurrect itself in a new form. I can’t really get...