The novel manuscript’s needs are great, and constant. Novels are anti-social creatures that don’t want…
Author: Jane Messer
Author, Mentor, Manuscript Assessor - The Bold Ink
A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.
In the most recent of Writing NSW’s First Friday Club talks, hosted by author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, publisher…
Welcome to my The Bold Ink – Creative Mentoring and Author Services. After thirty years…
A thousand pages of writing were framed by Mantel’s first paragraphs about Cromwell the boy:…
“Lie about everything to anyone who’s a stranger to you.” Reading excerpts of Walter Serner’s…
Do sales say anything meaningful about these books’ impact on our political process or cultural debate?
It wasn’t the fault of artistic angst, but Dear Dr Chekhov has taken a little while, a few…
Poor Salman Rushdie. On the global books site GoodReads, he recently gave public 1-, 2-…
