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Find what you need easily with this page depending on whether you need craft advice, contracts advice or reading recommendations:
Contracts
Top 5 Publishing Contract piece of advice (Rights, Exclusivity, Remuneration, Option and Non-Compete Clause, Reversion / Termination of Contract) — Sept 2024
How Does The Money Work? Part 1 (pre-publication)
How Does The Money Work? Part 2 (post-publication)
How To Read a Royalty Statement… and understand it!
Craft
Where to Start? (how to begin your story)
Submission-Ready Course (PAID — Six sessions)
How To Craft a Non-Fiction Proposal (PAID — Five sessions and a template)
On what happens to your book after you sign with an agent:
So you signed with an agent... what now? Editing with an agent and going on submission
So your agent has received an offer from a publisher... what now? On editing after the book deal
So your book didn’t sell... what now? Next steps if your book stalls on submission
Industry Chat
What Actually Happens at Book Fairs
Have you heard? “Memoir is dead"…
In praise of taking the damn holiday
Interview with Aki Schilz, director of The Literary Consultancy
On not letting hopelessness set in
Agency and Porty Literary Authors Updates
Moving Mountains is One Year Old!
Interview: Sarah Forbes Stewart about Aren't We Lucky
Interview: Wendy Pratt about The Ghost Lake
Interview: Laura Elliott about Awakened
Porty Literary authors whereabout in Summer 2025
Interview: CL Hellisen about The Shape of Monsters
Interview with Elspeth Wilson about These Mortal Bodies
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Non-Fiction
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability, edited by Louise Kenward
Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better by Polly Atkin
The Ghost Lake: A Memoir of Grief, Nature and Ancestry in Rural Yorkshire by Wendy Pratt
The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin
Kitchen Table: Simple Food Made Well by Emily Cuddeford and Rachel Morgan
Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism by Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath The Waves by Christina Riley
The New Eden: Wildlife in the city, and discovering our shared home by JC Niala
Q is for Garden: Tending the histories of queer cultivation by Jenny Chamarette
Poetry
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles
At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica
Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
Too Hot to Sleep by Elspeth Wilson
Holy Boys by Andrés N. Ordorica
Fiction
How We Named The Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
Aren't We Lucky by Sarah Forbes Stewart
These Mortal Bodies by Elspeth Wilson
The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen
Under The Hammer by Samantha Dooey-Miles
