by Bryony Pearce, Cornerstones editor and author of upcoming The Girl on the Platform To plan or not to plan? When I wrote my first…
Continue readingby Bryony Pearce, Cornerstones editor and author of upcoming The Girl on the Platform To plan or not to plan? When I wrote my first…
Continue readingby Melissa Boyce-Hurd I was elated to find out that I’d been given the opportunity to intern with Cornerstones, as they are a company with…
Continue readingIn today’s blog post, Cornerstones alum Rob Tye tells us about his magical mentoring experience and how it helped him secure agent representation for his…
Continue readingDodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge? We’ve got a new mantra for budding writers out there: presenting Helen’s ‘six Rs of self-editing’! As seen over at…
Continue readingCornerstones alumna and debut novelist Kate Bradley talks about her experience working with Cornerstones, and the value editing partnerships have brought to her writing journey…
Continue readingWriting — what is it? Getting words onto the page, expressing your thoughts and ideas, creating a story? Yes, all that. But the process also…
Continue readingIf you have finished your first draft and are wondering what to do next, why not take our online course? Taking your novel from final…
Continue readingby Helen Corner-Bryant Twenty-one years ago, on a rainy November evening, I was in Penguin editorial looking at piles of unsolicited manuscripts. On my desk…
Continue readingThe Army of Wolves Shortlisted for the Kindle Storyteller Award 2019 by Claire Moore I was so thrilled when The Army of Wolves was shortlisted…
Continue readingby Michele Rubin, Cornerstones US Managing Editor There is a world of difference between writing for middle grade readers versus writing for young adult…
Continue readingby Helen Corner-Bryant If you’ve just finished NaNoWriMo or you have a first draft of a novel, don’t let this go to waste! Here’s a…
Continue readingAt Cornerstones, we’re committed to the writer’s cause. We truly believe every story matters, and are here to help passionate authors develop and share stories…
Continue readingThe Missing Girl and my road to publication by Jenny Quintana When I was a child, I loved reading and writing stories and I dreamed…
Continue readingHow an online editing course helped take my novel to the next stage By Stella Soerensen, Edit Your Novel alumna Having been on several writing…
Continue readingThe Girl in the Letter by Emily Gunnis ‘I’ve sold my book!’ I squealed down the phone to my husband Steve, as my mother, who…
Continue readingEditing and The Synapse Sequence By Daniel Godfrey The Arena. That was the name of New Pompeii in its original draft form, moving briefly through its…
Continue reading‘The Dead Ex’ and My Road to Publication By Jane Corry As a child, I was always writing stories and poems. It was all I…
Continue readingGuiding (Corner)stones along the path to publication! by Cherry Radford, Cornerstones alumna Looking at my smiling face on Urbane Publications’ website, I’m sparing a thought…
Continue readingWhy I asked my brilliant publisher to stop selling my book! (And then they bought it back again) By Helen Corner-Bryant, founding director of Cornerstones…
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