The 500 Word Writing Buddy

Burning to write your novel? And publish it? But don’t know where to start?

This book will reveal how to:

• structure your book

• develop your characters

• introduce conflict

• weave setting and plot together

• edit and prepare your manuscript for publication

You’ll learn about:

• mainstream and self-publishing

• marketing and selling your book

And about living the writer’s life:

• why you write

• your writing place

• interacting with other writers

• the write/life balance

Alison Morton contributes the writing and publishing column in The Deux-Sèvres Monthly magazine and has published seven award-winning alternative history thrillers and two non-fiction books. She gives talks on writing, self-publishing, social media, research and historical fiction as well as her novels at events in France, the UK, the US and Ireland.