

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


C. S. Lewis on Writing for Children
In 1952, C. S. Lewis spoke at the Library Association about writing for children and this was eventually adapted into an essay and...


Ten Tips About Formatting
Your job as an editor and formatter of a manuscript is to make yourself invisible and redundant. The reader needs to see through your...


'V for Vendetta': Epic or Irony?
It’s peculiar that V’s mask from Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel V for Vendetta has become an iconic representation of the ‘Anonymous’...


Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


A Short Checklist for Independent Publishers
Are you interested in independently publishing a book? What that means is getting a book into the hands of readers either through...


Clarendon House's Special 2021 So Far: An Overview
Let’s take a look at some of the hot releases from Clarendon House Publications this year so far and break down what each is about and...


A Reading of the Opening Paragraph of Forster's 'A Passage to India'
As a work of Irony, Forster’s A Passage to India opens as you might expect, by mentioning the place of hollow meaninglessness which is...


Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


British Comics and Cultural Darkening
Seen as a kind of ‘flagship’ of IPC Magazines’ children’s range for a while, Valiant was a boys’ adventure comic of the British anthology...