Great tips on writing your next book…
Last week, we were extremely privileged to take part in #SFFpit, the Twitter-based book pitching event. It was great to see so many exciting and innovative pitches come through and as a consequence we are now rapidly reading through all of the submissions we received with the aim of providing feedback to everyone who submitted […]
Love it or hate it, social media is now a fundamental part of being a published writer. Even if you’re traditionally published, you will be expected to have a profile prolific enough to support the marketing of your book. If you’re published with a smaller independent like us, or self-published, then social media is probably […]
One of the great things about working at Burning Chair is that we get to meet lots of talented and interesting people. In this week’s podcast we bring you an interview with one of those supremely talented people. After a successful career in the publishing industry, Simon Bewick now focuses on being an author, prolific […]
OK, we’re calling it. Our NaNoWriMo 2018 dream is officially dead. We started out with such high hopes: back on that heady, dreamy morning of 1 November. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the fates were perfectly aligned. We were going to do it. We would achieve something great. Yes, along with thousands […]
As you know, here at Burning Chair we love the written word as much as we love, well… pretty much anything at all. However, sometimes there’s just no substitute for seeing and hearing someone. And we know that some of you (poor misguided souls that you are…) have been itching to find out what we […]
This week we have a guest blog from our friends over at Descript, which is the world’s first audio processor: a toolkit of superpowers for people who work with voice audio! If you’re a writer — of books, essays, scripts, blog posts, whatever — you’ll be familiar with the phenomenon: the blank screen, a looming deadline, and a […]
Last year, Simon in our team started writing his first novel. He’d been writing non-fiction for years and was convinced that the transition would be, well not exactly easy, but simple. After a few months, what was his verdict? In a word: Idiot. He might as well have said that he should be able to […]
