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Notes from the Slushpile is a team blog maintained by eight friends who also happen to be children's authors at different stages of the publishing journey.

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Showing posts with label Jo Wyton. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Jo Wyton. Show all posts

Friday, 23 December 2016

Happy Holidays from Notes from the Slushpile!

2016. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch...

Monday, 6 June 2016

Tommy Donbavand: Learning From the Best

by Jo Wyton A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article for this blog about the usefulness of finding a good network as a writer . Not long...

Monday, 23 May 2016

The Importance of a Good Network: Finding Fellow Writers

by Jo Wyton Writing is a lonely business, or so the saying goes. But I haven't found that to be true. Writing requires time spent alon...

Monday, 2 May 2016

Writer's Software: Is it any good?

Thanks giphy.com A writer can scribe on anything - if you have an idea and you're anything like me, you've probably ...

Monday, 25 April 2016

Confessions of a Part-Time Writer: Structure, Pacing, Plot and Everything Else, Actually

I typically open any given manuscript I’m working on knowing one thing: I haven’t got much time to work on it. Writing exists around that...

Sunday, 22 December 2013

Hark! Season's Greetings from the Slushpile

Hang on, smile, keep your back straight and keep going into 2014! (left to right) Maureen Lynas, Addy Farmer, Teri Terry, Candy Gourlay an...

Monday, 29 April 2013

These Are The Things That Make Us Anxious: Matt Haig and Writers' Neuroses

by Jo Wyton For the past couple of months, Matt Haig has been blogging for The Book Trust . He's an honest guy, and a great writer, an...

Sunday, 23 December 2012

... and that's it from the Slushpile for 2012 (apart from our prize draw of course)

Monday, 3 September 2012

Concept, concept, concept – A publisher’s dream, a writer’s minefield

by Jo Wyton Over the weekend, I wrote and posted a piece on my own blog about High Concept books from a reader’s perspective. But I’...

Thursday, 30 August 2012

The Publishing Process as told by Nathan Bransford

Author Nathan Bransford put together something a little bit special and a lot funny this week. It's been doing the rounds on faceboo...

Thursday, 2 August 2012

'Oh, my Daddy, my Daddy!' - Words that move in older fiction

by Addy Farmer The blog that never ends. More choices of words that move from me and you... Behind the tired old words, Tog heard the ...

Thursday, 26 July 2012

'Then Bella did something very kind' - Picture Book Words that Move

by Addy Farmer Then Bella did something very kind. 'Would you swap this Teddy for my brother's dog then?' she asked. ...

Thursday, 9 February 2012

Going back to your writing roots, with Celia Rees

I think it's fair to say that no list of top children's authors is complete without Celia Rees . She is most widely known for her hi...

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Surviving the Slushpile: Editing Your Manuscript... After Feedback

by Jo Wyton Notes from the Slushpile attempts to make some sense out of the mad scramble for a publishing deal. As the newest slu...

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Surviving the Slushpile ...as a dyslexic

by Sally Poyton Guest Blogger Notes from the Slushpile attempts to make some sense out of the mad scramble for a publishing deal. As...

Monday, 10 October 2011

Oxfordshire Book Awards - or 300: The Remake

by Jo Wyton Last Thursday was the day of the Oxfordshire Book Awards, held at Abingdon School. I attended as part of a team of voluntee...

Monday, 11 July 2011

Marketing for (Almost) Authors

By Jo Wyton How much marketing is an author expected to do? How much does marketing cost? How do you go about marketing your book? What th...

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