Writing for Success: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Writing for Success is an insightful and informative step-by-step guide for the aspiring wordsmith. Aimed at first-time writers, and those looking for guidance on the publishing process, Writing for Success acts as an important introduction to the world of literature and publishing.

Writer and lecturer Patricia O'Reilly delivers practical advice on how to write in an accessible and proficient manner and how to edit to a professional standard. As well as fiction, she covers print journalism, non-fiction, and writing for radio. She explains how to approach editors and publishers with proposals, and how to take those proposals from conception to production and publication.

The book covers all the bases and answers all the questions writers ask. Be it channelling creativity, structuring plot, developing characters, aquiring style and technique, dealing with agents or explaining the process a manuscript travels through before publication, Writing for Success is an invaluable companion guide.