

Your Guide to Services: Part 5 Developmental Editing
Another major service I offer to writers is Developmental Editing. Sometimes — in fact, quite often — I am approached to tackle a work...


Your Guide to Services: Part 4 Specialised Workshops
One of the most interesting and creative services that I offer, I think, is a range of Specialised Workshops which delve into the heart...


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...


Your Guide to Services: Part 3 Copy Editing
I offer copy editing and highlighted proofreading services. Copy-editing is the process of taking the raw material (the ‘copy’ of a novel...


Your Guide to Services: Part 2
Clarendon House offers services for those writers who have a piece of work on which they either need some competent feedback or something...


Your Guide to Services
As some of you are aware, Clarendon House has services designed especially for new writers or those struggling to find the kind of...


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...


How to Increase Your Chances of Success
For almost ten years now I have been hard at work in the marketplace of ‘writers and writing’. It’s been an interesting time, and...


Fictivity: Larkin and Metaphors
We’re looking at poetry’s use of metaphor — a huge topic, obviously. Perhaps it’s best examined, therefore, by zooming in on a particular...

