LBR tip 3: Your themes are important to publishers because they are the things that you could talk about in an interview. This made me really understand properly what people mean when they ask about your themes. #WritingCommunity did everyone else know this already?😂#amwriting

V sad news about Cormac McCarthy. He had the biggest influence on me, though I've never forgiven him for what happens to the wolf & the dog in The Crossing, it made me too upset to sleep. In tribute, here's a podcast about wolves which I think he'd like: buff.ly/42yuwEs

#WritingCommunity be really careful about putting your writing, or even your plot outlines, into an AI. ChatGBT, for eg., says it will "use your questions ... to train the AI models to provide better answers". So ideas in your work could end up in the work of someone else who

How have you been avoiding writing today? I have been reduced by a sticky opening chapter to *making my own candles* out of sticky concoction of beeswax and coconut oil. This is undoubtedly a manifestation of my attempts to control chapter one. #WritingCommnunity #amwriting

LBF talk tip 4: You need to be careful about reversion clauses in publishing deals because once it's an e-book it never goes out of print, meaning you’ll be able to get the rights to the book back. #WritingCommunity Does anyone have experience of trying to get their rights back?

LBR talk tip 5: If you're trying to write a particular kind of book, buy 5 books in that space that made their authors famous in that space. Think: what was it about that book that led to the fame. #WritingCommunity is this useful or a way to drive yourself mad creating formulaic

LBF talk tip 6: Publishers don’t want to build your brand in a particular space to have you diverge from it. They don’t want to market a fantasy author and then find out that their next book is crime. Think: what do you want your industry profile to be at the end of your next 6-7

Writers! If you’re looking for examples of how to write great elevator pitches, here are some truly excellent examples from the back of a Chi Ly book👌 #amwriting #WritingCommmunity

#WritingCommunity Do you think it is a problem if your book has the same title as another book, even if that book is not well known? #amwriting

Read 8 books in June & an alarming 4 of them were audio, stuck on while doing life stuff. I think I've developed quite a good good system for taking notes from audio, but am I deluded? Also #WritingCommunity should we all be writing books now as play/novels to be spoken out loud?

Do you ever stop listening to an audiobook because you don't like the reader? I'm listening to a MG novel ATM & can't work out whether I don't like the style or whether it's just being read badly. IME actors can sometimes put on strange mannerisms/voices when performing something

Do people find that the books which are available on Kindle Unlimited are the books they actually want to read? #WritingCommunity #readersoftwitter

One day I hope that bookshops will have entire bookcases dedicated to my work, but for now I have share mine with Belgium 🤷😂#WritingCommunity

It filled me with great joy to see my friend Jethro Skinner, in his role as Clive in BBC drama #theodosia, transforming into the Ancient Egyptian God Shesmu 😍😍😍

#WritingCommunity how do you deal w/ the stress of being evaluated, the instant you say 'I'm a writer', by people trying to work out what your STATUS is, whether you're real/important/famous/failed/pretender? I found Viv Groskop 's book on how to create/hold your own status v

Does anyone else who writes with a pet have radically different music tastes from said pet? I have to blast the house full of Chopin's piano stuff to keep the dog happy, whilst listening to the fast dance beats I need to get my own writing energy up over headphones

The Bookseller has a story up today about how subscription boxes are helping to drive the rise in popularity of sci-fi & fantasy. Have you ever used a subscription box, for any genre? I'd love to hear about which ones are good/popular #WritingCommunity #readersoftwitter

Just a shot of me reading last night in Blackfriars Station, central London, BUT does this not look like some crazy post apocalyptic landscape where alien spacecraft are arriving? How does your writing affect the way you see the world? #WritingCommunity #SFF