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Self-Distrust: The Killer of Creativity

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

By Charlotte Green Ted Solotaroff, editor of the New American Review, once wrote that rejection is as much a part of a writer’s life as snow and cold are of an Eskimo’s. He’s right. If the British Library’s new online collection Discovering Literature shows us anything, it is that even the greatest writers are rejected. […]


BBC to feature our very own Dexter Petley

Saturday, June 11th, 2016

BBC Radio 4 have been out in France all last week following Dexter around for a programme on him that is due to go out in July. We will keep you posted. Love Madness Fishing, by Dexter Petley, Published by Little Toller Books. Dexter’s blog for waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/blog/love-madness-fishing Publisher link: http://littletoller.co.uk/bookshop/caught-by-the-river/love-madness-fishing/


Publishing Without Boundaries

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Publishing Without Boundaries One-day conference on 14th June 2016 at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. The conference has a line-up of very high-profile speakers: Joanne Harris, author of ‘Chocolat’ and many otherbooks, Baroness Gail Rebuck, Chair of Penguin Random House in conversation with journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup, and Nigel Newton, CEO of Harry Potter publisher […]


Sophie King: Romance comes in many forms and sizes …

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

Monday, May 2nd, 2016 By Sophie King (and others) When I first started writing novels (long before I was published), I didn’t intend to write romance. I simply wanted to write a story. In fact, I’d been writing stories ever since I’d picked up a pencil at the age of two. But this time, I […]


Paul Maunder: How to not write a novel about cycling

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

How to not write a novel about cycling Perhaps it was the tapas, or the Spanish beer, but one night during a family holiday in Andalusia, I dreamt a whole novel. Fully-formed and ready to write. In almost twenty years of writing fiction this had never happened to me. Indeed I’d written off as delusional […]