Sentences with phrase «for professional novelists»

As for professional novelists, the best policy is to continue putting out quality books.

Not exact matches

She is a professional screenwriter and young - adult novelist and was awarded the Marion - Hood Boesworth Award for Young Fiction in 2008.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

Digital technologies have enabled a massive increase in writing, much of it for public consumption — which, lest we forget, used to be the domain of professionals, from medieval scribes to Victorian novelists to science journalists.

It's the professional organisation for self - published writers and indie authors all over the world, launched by bestselling novelist Orna Ross just over two years ago.

Davis has now been a full - time novelist for over twenty years, but his journey to success prompts him to help other writers avoid the pitfalls that slowed his own entry into the professional writing arena and teach with passion about the writing craft.

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.

«Gender bending is just the first sign that unusual happenings are afoot in this origin story for a revamped Sherlock Holmes series by bestselling author Thomas... There is also a tantalizing, slow - burn love story between Holmes and a longtime friend befitting Thomas» skills as a romance novelist... The ground has been laid well for future incidents in the professional and intimate life of Charlotte Holmes.»

I also discover and explain why you need a professional editor before your book BEFORE you submit it to anyone (especially for a first time novelist)

For debut novelist Edward Kelsey Moore — already an accomplished professional cellist and college professor — writing was that something new.

A professional writer for more than twenty years, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics, and is now a bestselling novelist.

Starting on last Thursday evening and running for three days, novelist Scott William Carter and I led a discussion with a little over thirty well - published professional writers on the reasons, the art, and the promise of both electronic publishing and POD (print on demand) publishing for fiction writers.

Deadline: Rolling admissions Birds & Muses Writing - Intensive Retreats & Year - Long Book Program with Kate Moses, internationally acclaimed novelist, memoirist (Wintering, Cakewalk, Mothers Who Think) and professional editor (Salon, North Point Press): taking writers under her wing for three decades.

The former editor - in - chief of Del Ray (Random House's speculative fiction imprint), Betsy Mitchell, complained that her business is drying up; she said indie novelists aren't willing to pay $ 3,500 for the kind of top - notch professional editing job she can offer.

Online instruction in fiction, nonfiction, grammar, life stories, etc. trAce Online Writing Centre Creative Writing Courses by StoryCraft — StoryCraft Creative Writing Course Software, the original Story - Development Tool for Aspiring (and Professional) Novelists and Screenwriters.

She is a professional screenwriter and young - adult novelist and was awarded the Marion - Hood Boesworth Award for Young Fiction in 2008.

The same way that reading the newspaper on a regular basis doesn't make you a journalist, and becoming enthralled by a book doesn't transform you into a novelist, having access to resumes on a regular basis isn't an automatic qualification for the job of professional resume writer.