Literature Love Ltd

28/07/2024

My shiny new website, having moved over from Wix to WordPress. Wasn't easy managing DNS servers, API codes, links to free short story, and a whole load of other back end stuff. And moving over my business email was a barrel of laughs but I got there in the end 😵‍💫😱

book reviews limited to literature we love....

28/07/2024

Free on kindle today !! Review in comments...

13/07/2024

by Callie Hill From Romantic Mystery to Psychological Suspense, The Story Collector is an eclectic collection of twisty tales that connect to give a novel-like feel… Available from Amazon The…

10/07/2024

18/06/2024

‘Over the Wall’ was a top read for Literature Love last year. So happy this is a trilogy and book 2 ‘Into the Old’ is out now ❤️📘

16/06/2024

Just noticed the 'book bag' page of my website hasn't been updated since June 2021 - oops... So here are some are my reads/reviews for summer 2024

Take a sneaky peek into Callie's Book Bag to see what amazing books are coming up for review.

15/06/2024

My first attempt at playing around with Canva. Not procrastinating in the slightest haha...

09/04/2024

Ooh, it's now official!!!! 😍😍 What an exciting day 💕💕

09/04/2024

Point of view is who is telling the story. Perspective is whose interpretation of events....

Point of view is who is telling the story. Perspective is whose interpretation of events.

23/02/2024

Where are those red squiggly underlines when you need them?

15/09/2023

We run full board, fully catered retreats for writers, roughly monthly, where you can tuck yourself away in your own cosy room and just write, and we look after you. Many dates below are workshops - with tutors - on different aspects of writing.

15/05/2023

The first words of a story have to do a lot of work in snaring the reader. Novelist Liz Nugent considers some of her favourites

18/03/2023

Here are nine new literary agents actively seeking writers. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and wi...

14/03/2023

Ready to submit? Here's advice on how to write a covering letter.

14/03/2023

How do you write the perfect pitch-letter to a literary agent? Here are my top 15 tips on how to make your letter stand out from the pack.

14/03/2023

You’ve written your masterpiece. You’ve conquered the synopsis stress. And now it’s just a case of sending it off to the publisher or agent you have identified as your target.

10/03/2023

Next piece of research.

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

12/12/2022

https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/how-authors-evolve-with-their-income/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=cpc%0A&utm_campaign=2022+Survey+Results+-+Self-Publishing%0A&utm_term=2022+Survey+Results+-+Copy&fbclid=IwAR2YXTNP8Mknjx9X5nspUs6VxkEr_Rb9lrs62Bp5SPbf2_OgDwQcG5CFkNU_aem_AQs2tsnM4Uy17m7f-4E65UVwKjNtj6RO225VS6u3vX51LwSo-NMtIvXMNhH1yExcQfKQxxuR08R1EsrVNvgXuzeARl0QDmXti-jPcisa1gMj2QOW4R5oqrhx8uF4DhUmgAdMKAvpuwe0z1Pn6Pv9kcBN

What our 2022 author survey tells us about indie author income, and how authors change as their income increases.

21/11/2022

Character arc has many elements - inner & outer motivation, inner & outer conflict, fears, misbeliefs, emotional wounds and more.

21/11/2022

Most psychological thriller writers start with one of three elements – a premise, a beginning, or an ending. If you are writing a thriller, it is very likely you have one of these three – but where do you go from there? Here are some suggestions.

21/11/2022

Gone Girl, How to be Both, Instructions for a Heatwave: everyone’s at it - using dual or multiple narratives to interwea

18/11/2022

Advice on pitching to literary agents and preparing your submission to Discoveries 2023 from Curtis Brown literary agent Lucy Morris.

29/08/2022

OMG not too exciting then 📚😍

27/02/2022

Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make our…

05/02/2022

February...It's the month of love and romance - something Hera Books knows all too well. Our huge range of romantic titles: from comical and heartwarming to touching and weepy will keep you rooting for our love interests well beyond the pages. Take a look at what we have to offer on herabooks.com 📚

28/11/2021

26/11/2021

Bargain 😎😅

The Story Collector: and other tales

06/09/2021

Congratulations to Helga Jensen, whose debut novel Twice in a Lifetime, published by Hera Books, is a contender for the 2021 Joan Hessayon Award. The winner of the 2021 Award will be announced at the York Tea on Saturday 18th September. Tickets can be purchased here https://bit.ly/2XDydge.

01/09/2021

Absolutely delighted to be featured on Louise Jensen's fantastic Fabricating Fiction blog today. Louise was my mentor on the Womentoring Scheme a couple of years ago and has been a huge inspiration to me.

http://literaturelove.uk/2021/09/01/how-i-write-short-stories-callie-hill/

Reblogged on WordPress.com

01/09/2021

Absolutely delighted to be featured on Louise Jensen's fantastic Fabricating Fiction blog today. Louise was my mentor on the Womentoring Scheme a couple of years ago and has been a huge inspiration to me.

To celebrate, the ebook of The Story Collector is just 99p on Kindle 1st - 7th September inclusive. Links to this are in Louise's blog.

Today I’m delighted to welcome Callie Hill onto my blog. I had the pleasure of mentoring Callie through the Womentoring Project and she’s a super talented writer as well as a lovely per…