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 also learn about:

• mainstream/traditional 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 (Roma Nova series) 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.