Review
Don't submit your first manuscript without reading this book. --Mary Hoffman
I've always generally mistrusted self-help books, especially those offering advice to would-be writers, a gullible lot at best, who should probably be saving their money. Nicola Morgan's book is one of a very few exceptions. It offers excellent, practical, informed and unpatronizing advice to the published and the unpublished alike; exposes common fallacies; pokes fun at sacred cows; deflates pretensions; offers encouragement where deserved; admits to occasional 'crabbitness', but tells things as they really are in a world where success is increasingly hard to achieve. This is the tutor I wish I'd had when I was starting out: brisk, funny, just a little bit schoolmistressy, but an eminently sensible schoolmistress who knows her subject, doesn't suffer fools and is not afraid to hand out detentions where necessary. In short, Nicola Morgan is made of crabbit - but she is also made of awesome. --Joanne Harris
I've followed Nicola's blog since its beginning and because that's full of good sense and what's more, sense conveyed in a funny and likeable way, I for one can't wait to read the book. --Adele Geras
I've always generally mistrusted self-help books, especially those offering advice to would-be writers, a gullible lot at best, who should probably be saving their money. Nicola Morgan's book is one of a very few exceptions. It offers excellent, practical, informed and unpatronizing advice to the published and the unpublished alike; exposes common fallacies; pokes fun at sacred cows; deflates pretensions; offers encouragement where deserved; admits to occasional 'crabbitness', but tells things as they really are in a world where success is increasingly hard to achieve. This is the tutor I wish I'd had when I was starting out: brisk, funny, just a little bit schoolmistressy, but an eminently sensible schoolmistress who knows her subject, doesn't suffer fools and is not afraid to hand out detentions where necessary. In short, Nicola Morgan is made of crabbit - but she is also made of awesome. --Joanne Harris
I've followed Nicola's blog since its beginning and because that's full of good sense and what's more, sense conveyed in a funny and likeable way, I for one can't wait to read the book. --Adele Geras
Product Description
You want to make a publisher say yes? First, understand why they say no; then apply that knowledge to your book. Nicola Morgan - the Crabbit Old Bat of the renowned blog, Help! I Need a Publisher! - has made publishers say yes around ninety times. Now she reveals the workings of publishers' minds and whips your work into shape with humour, honesty, grumpiness and chocolate.
From the Author
What the Author is saying about the book:
"What Fray Bentos have achieved for culinary excellence, The Internet(s): The Annual has equalled for technology journalism"
"If you only read one book this year, you should probably read a bit more"
What People are saying about this book:
"Buy this book. Really, buy it, it's terrific. Failing that, please find your way to sending me your bank details, to enable the release of 40/70 split on 50,00000000 Nairas or whatever the latest Nigerian currency is immediately"
"What Fray Bentos have achieved for culinary excellence, The Internet(s): The Annual has equalled for technology journalism"
"If you only read one book this year, you should probably read a bit more"
What People are saying about this book:
"Buy this book. Really, buy it, it's terrific. Failing that, please find your way to sending me your bank details, to enable the release of 40/70 split on 50,00000000 Nairas or whatever the latest Nigerian currency is immediately"
About the Author
Nicola Morgan is a prolific, award-winning author of around 90 books. She runs the popular & respected blog, Help! I Need a Publisher! where her trenchant advice makes her the first Google result for the phrase "Crabbit Old Bat".
Best known for gritty YA novels, such as the Fleshmarket and Deathwatch, Nicola is also the author of best-selling early learning books. Nicola is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and is an inspiring and energetic speaker on many aspects of books for all ages."
Best known for gritty YA novels, such as the Fleshmarket and Deathwatch, Nicola is also the author of best-selling early learning books. Nicola is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and is an inspiring and energetic speaker on many aspects of books for all ages."
