How The Writing Coach Helped Me Build a Writing Career
Discover how The Writing Coach turned my distant dreams of a writing business into an exciting new reality through coaching, writing feedback, and support.
Celebrating our MA Creative Writing success stories at UEA
We are delighted to announce that three of our current and former clients will soon be finishing the first term of their Creative Writing MAs at the University of East… Read the rest →
Words Away Salon: ‘Be Your Own Writing Coach’
The Words Away salon is on Monday, July 3, 2017
7:30pm – 9:30pm at The Tea House Theatre, Vauxhall
Do you need some inspiration and motivation tips to get going… Read the rest →
How the Bridport Prize kick-started my novel
Carolyn Kirby, a former Writing Coach client, reached the short-list of this year’s Bridport Prize award for a first novel. In this guest post, Carolyn writes about her experience of… Read the rest →
Non-fiction and its possibilities: a guest post by Glynis Kozma
Writing non-fiction can be every bit as creative as writing fiction and equally as satisfying. Our perceptions on non-fiction may be narrow and perhaps need challenging in order to be… Read the rest →
Branding Workshop for Content Creation at The Shard, London
I had the great pleasure recently to lead a branding workshop for content creation at The Shard, London. What a wonderful venue for a workshop this was, with a glorious… Read the rest →
Join me at the Charroux Festival this summer
This summer, I’m delighted to have been invited to appear at the first Charroux Literary Festival in France – and I’d love to see you there! The Festival, a bilingual… Read the rest →
On taking yourself seriously as a writer
In those heady days, back in 1995, when I achieved my dream and had my first novel The Temple of Hymen published by Penguin, it was easy to take myself… Read the rest →
Looking for a Literary Consultant? Our new team is here.
If you are looking for a literary consultant, I know you’ll be delighted to read about my new team of literary consultants, here at The Writing Coach. The demand for… Read the rest →
The Observer – a writing prompt
Reading Jane Harris’s wonderful historical novel The Observationsthis week reminded me of one of my favourite writing exercises which I call ‘The Observer’.
Here’s your writing prompt this Monday morning:… Read the rest →
Alice Jolly’s experience of working with Unbound, a ‘crowd-funded’ publisher
When I first met novelist and playwright Alice Jolly, she was between projects, uncertain about her future direction as a writer. We worked together only briefly, but I have been… Read the rest →
Publishing success story – from the ‘virtual drawer’ to glitzy launch party
We often hear of the novel that sits ‘under the bed’ for years, and in most cases, that is where it stays. I know that I have one of those… Read the rest →
