Dear authors,
We hope you’re well and enjoying some spring sunshine!
Join our founder and director, Helen Corner-Bryant, and world-class leader on storytelling on screen, John Yorke, in an upcoming one-hour live webinar about how to shape your novel to connect with readers as well as what makes a novel impossible to put down.
BAFTA-winning former Controller of BBC Drama Production, John Yorke, is known for acclaimed dramas such as Shameless and Wolf Hall. Author of Into the Woods and Trip to the Moon, John delivers story training to leading studios and universities through his company John Yorke Story.
Helen Corner-Bryant is the founding director of Cornerstones, known for launching best-selling debut writers and specialising in executive publishing training. She is the co-author of On Editing: How to Edit Your Novel the Professional Way (John Murray, 2018) and the course director of the Cornerstones/PWA online course, Edit Your Novel the Professional Way, which is MA-level CPD-certified. Helen teaches developmental editing at UCL as an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCL, and lectures and trains writers and publishing professionals worldwide.
In conversation with Steph Wessell, award-nominated series producer, they’ll discuss how a clearer sense of story can make the whole writing process easier and what can hold promising novels back.
Book your (free) tickets and learn practical ways to spot when something isn’t working and how to fix it as well as what agents and editors respond to.
Whether you’re starting out or deep into a draft, this session will help you write with more clarity and feel more in control of your story.
The webinar also includes a Q&A at the end, so bring any questions ready!
As always, we love to celebrate our authors’ successes and a have some amazing new books to share with you through our indie-published spotlight! Read on below for allegorical fiction, psychological thriller, non-fiction and a historical family saga.
In other news, the CEO of Hachette, David Shelley, has been campaigning for the protection of copyright and pushing back on Big Tech and AI. We’re proud of our publisher (for Cornerstones’ and Helen Corner-Bryant’s book On Editing: How to Edit Your Novel the Professional Way), Hachette, for standing up for our creative rights as authors.
You can read more about David Shelley’s fight for authors and intellectual property here.
That’s all from us! As usual, do get in touch with any new manuscripts or news as we love to hear updates of what you’re working on. We hope you’re having a wonderful springtime and getting inspired underneath the sun!
Very best,
The Cornerstones Team
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