This six-week self-editing course will give you all the tools necessary to analyse and deconstruct your draft and all your future manuscripts. Alumni from the first five years have averaged an impressive one-in-four publication rate!
You’ll learn how to self-edit a book and create a clear plan for a final draft ready to submit to literary agents or self-publish. You’ll master the tricks to brilliant narrative drive, voice, plot and story development.
Debi Alper
Author
Debi is the author of five published novels, the first two published by Orion and then republished under her own imprint, along with the next three in the series. Since 2006, Debi has worked as a freelance editor and creative writing tutor, including running the phenomenally successful Jericho Writers’ Self-Edit Your Novel course, together with Emma Darwin. She won the inaugural RNA Indie Editor of the Year Award in 2021. Debi also acts as a competition judge and was a reader for the Costa Short Story Awards.
Emma Darwin
Author
Emma Darwin’s bestselling novels have been nominated for several awards including the Commonwealth Writers and RNA Novel of the Year. She is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction, the memoir This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin and her renowned blog ‘This Itch of Writing’. She currently teaches at Goldsmiths and Oxford University, and as a tutor, editor and mentor has long experience of helping writers to achieve publication.
