Times Have Changed for the Insecure Writer.

Louise Dean, Founder of The Novelry, opens another avenue to publication... 

Here's how to get published.

Leading literary agencies have buddied up with The Novelry to get their hands on their writers' work because the standard, thanks to their rigorous process, is so high. They fast track members' work, giving a response in one to two weeks. It's a VIP pass.
To join The Novelry, sign up for one of their writing courses, they're inspirational and practical, there's nothing like daily guidance and a deadline and The Ninety Day Novel course is the tonic many aspiring novelists need to get that novel done.
"Because there's never a right time to write a novel," says founder and author Lousie Dean "I created the right place. You'll need our method, an hour a day for ninety days and I'll give you a new good habit that will last you a lifetime of happy writing."
Members working across all the fiction genres - Literary, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical including Young Adult and Children's - get matched to literary agents under the careful stewardship of The Novelry.
The Novelry offers online writing courses and residential writers' retreats with guest tutors including bestselling award-winning authors Kit de Waal and Sophie Hannah.
The Novelry's courses have been named in the top creative writing courses online worldwide by The Bookfox, winner of 'Best Course to Write Your Novel' and 'Best Editing Course'.

1. If you love reading and would love to raise your writing game to publishing standard, you might like to explore what's on offer at The Novelry. Plenty of free advice at the blog and a free mini-course.
2. The Classic Course teaches writers how to build a world in fiction. Learn the techniques and methods of authors like JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, JK Rowling and more. Delve into your own unique life experience and find the story inside you. You’ll leave the course with a plan for your novel and plenty of material. 
3. If you have an idea and need to write it, write it fast. So write it in a season as Stephen King advises with the Ninety Day Novel ® course. It’s an online course, available worldwide, you can sign up at any time and you’ll be guided step-by-step, daily, and supported all the way to ‘The End.’ With one-to-one troubleshooting sessions and plenty of encouragement from fellow writers, no one gets left behind. 
4. Put that pen down! Leave that novel in a drawer for at least a month and read other great books again, then return to the novel and produce a second draft using the Editing Your Novel course.
5. Submit those first three chapters one by one to the novelists' community at The Novelry for warm wise feedback. Then when you’ve taken on board all the constructive and cheering praise, you send it to Louise Dean, founder of The Novelry who will submit for you to their leading literary agency partners.

Founder of The Novelry, Louise Dean studied History at the University of Cambridge. She is the award-winning Man Booker listed author of four novels published worldwide. The Novelry hothouses writing talent preparing writers for safe submission to leading literary agents and a happy and secure writing life.

The Secret to Getting Published

Don't forget that this Wednesday is the first of July. It's post day for the IWSG. Can't believe it's time already.

I wrote my first novel in long hand before I joined a writing group. I remember walking into that meeting, nervous but excited. It was held in a meeting room behind a food court. When I entered, people were already sitting at the tables and talking to each other. When I took a seat, one of the members greeted me with a new member packet that would tell me all about their group. Then the meeting started and I got out my pen and paper. Now I would learn the secret.

I didn't learn it that first meeting but I paid up for a membership and kept coming back. I learned lots of things about formatting, voice, query letters, writing a synopsis, passive verbs and every other thing I didn't know that I didn't know. Yet no one had spilled the secret after a few years and a writing conference later.

My first novel underwent numerous changes and rewrites. I queried it and received numerous requests for the manuscript but I obviously didn't know the secret. I had completed three more novels before I found the small publisher that I'm still with. I discovered the secret. Hard work and persistence.

In the years since, I've encountered many new writers searching for the same elusive secret I was when I walked into that first meeting. I've even met writers who angrily accuse published writers of hoarding the secret and not sharing it to prevent competition. Some never accept that there is no secret. With all the options open to writers these days like in publishing and promotion, there are new things to learn every day. And still, the secret is work and persistence.

In a recent Book Page publication, in an interview debut author Ericka Swyler shared her Words to Live By.  "Don't worry. No one else knows what they're doing either."

So don't feel as if there is a hidden entrance into the world of published authors. Speak with any successful, published author and they will gladly share how hard they work and how they first succeeded by refusing to give up.

If you're still looking for secrets, read this article by Margot Finke written a while ago but if you like lists, it has one.

Do you know writers who think there is a secret? What would you tell a new writer if they asked you the secret?