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In this Ask Us Anything replay, authors Laura Starkey & Rosie Fiore dive into: ✍️ Editors vs. genre 📚 Query letters & comp titles 📖 Self-pub vs trad 📘 Prologues in submissions 🧠 Sensitivity readers & beta readers Premium Members watch now 👉buff.ly/jUMlJMK

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In this week's newsletter, Debi Alper offered tips from her Introduction to Self-Editing video course. She says: "The first draft of anything is crap. But a first draft is also perfect simply because it exists, and now you have something to work on..." buff.ly/TH9Gb7O

Harry Bingham (founder of Jericho Writers) live-edits 4 member submissions — no prep, just raw insights. 🎥 Premium Members log in and watch here: buff.ly/DAzB9Nl

Big congrats to Carys Shannon! Her debut novel will be published in Sept 2025! "I'm deeply grateful to Jericho… I even thank them in my book’s acknowledgements.💛 👉 Buy your ticket to Festival and enter this year's competition: buff.ly/QJidhl3

The replay of Ep 1 in our exclusive series with Becca Day is now live for Premium members! 📝✨ She shares how she drafts a novel—from idea to synopsis—plus tips on setting, structure & commercial appeal. Q&A included! 🎥 Log in and watch now: buff.ly/dpriagj

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Huge congratulations to our Head of Membership & Marketing—and brilliant author—Becca Day on her very first translation deal! 🎉📚 The Woman in the Cabin is heading to bookshelves in Sweden and Finland. We couldn’t be prouder. 💫

This week’s email is all about editing smart: Harry dives into the power of cutting deep to reveal what your novel really needs. Read it now on Townhouse! ✂️📚 buff.ly/9vk7BE5

Lesson Three of Introduction to Self-Editing Your Novel course is LIVE 🎉📝 Your voice is what makes your writing uniquely you. In this lesson, Debi Alper will help you uncover your natural voice and give you tools to sharpen it on the page: buff.ly/RW27yAp

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University writing courses can be great—but they often iron out what makes your voice unique. Harry Bingham's process? Edit relentlessly, trust your gut, and write like you, not like a room full of well-meaning critics. The goal is to sound like yourself. buff.ly/eBoYWvZ

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Choosing the right point of view is just the start — mastering it is where the magic happens. In this lesson, Debi Alper dives into POV and psychic distance — tools that help you control how close (or far) readers feel to your characters: buff.ly/RW27yAp

Congratulations to Miranda! After winning the inaugural Search for a Storyteller competition, her debut book will be published by David Fickling Books on 9 October 2025. Find out more about the Self-Edit Your Novel course here: buff.ly/yI6jFBk

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