Allaboutwriting is a partnership between Richard Beynon and Jo-Anne Richards who are passionate about good writing, and have devised their courses to help communicate that passion – plus the skills that make it much more than an academic exercise.
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Our first Writers’ Circle Course for 2010 starts on 18 January. The course is designed for writers who have a specific project in mind as well as for those who simply want the chance to exercise their creative skills.
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Laura Wilson rounds up the best of the new crime novels
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Richard Lea meets a writer who is acutely conscious of the tension between fact and fabrication
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Novelist sinks teeth into graphic storytelling with American Vampire series
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South African crime fiction is developing a unique sense of place, but this alone will not generate a selling spree, writes Margie Orford.
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Mary-Kay Wilmers, interviewed by Nicholas Wroe
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Neil Gaiman and Melvin Burgess are the latest authors to explore the potential of storytelling in 140-word bursts
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A study of cooking serves up some tasty morsels, but also empty calories, says Steve Jones
Allaboutwriting WAKE UP DEAD (Holt Feb 2010) gets a starred review from LIBRARY JOURNAL: "Noir as hard-boiled as it gets." http://is.gd/4mnyf
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Balogh, Mary . A Matter of Class . Vanguard: Perseus . Jan. 2010. c.190p. ISBN 978-1-59315-554-4 . $15.95. F Her scandalous near elopement with a coachman and his habitually drunken and spendthrift ways have brought Lady Annabelle Ashton and Mr. ...
Allaboutwriting Join us for The Character Course on Saturday 24 October. We still have a few places available.
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Join us on an intensive full-day course designed to help writers of both television drama and soap, novelists and creative non-fiction writers to create psychologically complex and credible characters. The course will be held on Saturday 24 October from 9am to 5pm in Parkview, Johannesburg.
Allaboutwriting Pierre Brouard, writing as Gabriel St Claire, offers psycho-literary advice to writers on www.allaboutlove.net
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How would you convince your readers that the passionate understudy could be driven to murder to get the plum role? Well, our advice would be to e-mail Characters on the Couch – a blog written by a practising psychologist to help writers hone their craft.
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Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors in electronic form.
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International publishers scrabble to acquire rights to book based on private collection of writings
Allaboutwriting This is a must
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The second volume of Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy finds a master storyteller on top form, says Dominic Sandbrook
