Sisterh d and solidarity

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Author Linda Newbery refused to give up on her latest novel and publish

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Writing Magazine

3 July 2025

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“i had a midlife crisis and wrote my f irst play now it’s been optioned by a production company.”

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer. But like many daughters of immigrant parents, I followed the safer path. I became a management consultant. I wore suits, talked strategy, and bu

Woman's Own

Book club

At a literary festival in the sleepy town of Hoslewit, gruesome events are about to unfold. Writer Jane Hepburn is hoping to make it big at the Killer Lines Crime Festival by networking with all the r

Grazia

Sisters: friends and frenemies

They can be our greatest supporters – and a ruthless yardstick against which we judge ourselves, says Abigail Bergstrom

The Critic

Henry jeffreys tells of his experience with unbound, the publisher that promised a new way of doing business but left many authors unpaid

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Writing Magazine

Go for green flags

People are often bemused when they find out that I have my own agent. Is that necessary, they ask? To which I say, emphatically, yes – particularly when they are as brilliant as my agent is. But it is