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In 2016, TLC’s 20th anniversary year, we launched a blog as a space for thoughtful, non-promotional pieces on all things writing, editing and publishing. If you’d like to pitch a piece, please email Aki Schilz on aki@literaryconsultancy.co.uk.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (A Book): Promoting Yourself As an Author
February 01, 2018 | Blog
As I type this, I’ve got a little less than three months to go until publication day.
Two completed manuscripts. Just north of two hundred thousand words, and that’s not counting the tens of thousands more that didn’t make the cut. Hundreds of hours hunched over a laptop or scribbling in a notebook.
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The Art of Letting Go, or The Strange Case of the North Surrey Gigantopithecus
When novelist and TLC reader Ashley Stokes set out to write a short story, he was overtaken with a madcap story about a shouting man named Kevin, and a beast lurking in a London suburb. The story became a novel. Then, everything changed. After all the hard graft, experiments,
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Finding Your Voice through Poetry: A Conversation between JJ Bola and Jamal Mehmood
We’ve been lucky enough to have writer, poet and Associate Member of Spread the Word’s Flight 1000 scheme, JJ Bola helping out in the office recently, as part of the scheme offers three London-based aspiring publishing professionals from a background underrepresented in publishing 1000 hours over a year of training,
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An Agent of Change
November 01, 2017 | Blog | 2 comments
Launching The Ruppin Agency earlier this year was a logical step for me. But it was more than just working out how best to use my experience. There are many excellent literary agents out there, so I need to be different. And that difference comes from what I’ve come to understand about not what is published,
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The Power of Words: Trick(s)y Language
October 01, 2017 | Blog
Dedicated to Rebecca Swift – who told me to be brave and to make every word choice count.
On speaking plainly…
We’re constantly reminded of the power of words. Case in point, following this summer’s tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, President Donald J Trump chose to include the phrase “on many sides,” when first called upon to condemn the violence and open displays of bigotry.
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Being a Writer: Six Pieces of Advice
Over the past year, Travis Elborough and I have been putting together a collection of musings, tips and essays from some of our favourite authors about the business of writing. We pored through old diaries and interviews, read memoirs, blog posts and newspaper articles, and asked some of the writers we know to share their thoughts,
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Are Plays Literature?
June 01, 2017 | Blog, Other News
The above is a thorny question. If you ask it amongst writers they tend to get twitchy. Some might wonder if it matters anyway? It matters to me, as a playwright, to see the craft of playwriting treated with as much respect as other forms of writing. Plus my day job,
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My First Job in Publishing - Joe Sedgwick
April 01, 2017 | Blog
One year after being made a full-time member of staff at TLC, Joe Sedgwick, our Editorial Services Assistant, reflects on what he has learned in his first job in the publishing/literature development sector
What have you learned about publishing as an industry, since starting work with TLC?I think the answer to this applies to all companies and industries,
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On Literary Fiction, and Literary Snobbery
Recently I read an article dating back to 2014 where novelist and journalist Will Self posed the question “is the novel dead?” The inference being that literary works, unlike genre specific fiction, had not transitioned well into the age of digital media. Throughout the article, Self makes several valid and interesting points,
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