How To Be A Writer: The definitive guide to getting published and making a living from writing - Softcover

An invaluable companion for anyone setting out as a writer. We all need all the help we can get and there's a good deal of help right here (A.L. Kennedy, author of DAY)

This is a brilliantly informative book, packed full of facts and no-nonsense advice! Sally has written an indispensable bible for any would-be writer (Dotti Irving, Chief Executive, Colman Getty)

How to Be a Writer is witty, wise and superbly well informed. Sally O'Reilly offers a sharp survey of our literary and publishing landscapes, and also, generously, drawns on her own experience as a writer. She knows the pitfalls. She knows the joys. This is the book I wish I'd had when I was starting to publish. No new writer should be without it (Dr Alison Macleod, Professor of Contemporary Fiction, University of Chichester)

. . . this sensible manual covers topics such as "time management" (I wish), choosing a degree course (if you think you need one), dealing with publishers and contracts, "networking", having a day job, writing online, and . . . provides illuminating capsule interviews with authors, publishers and agents . . . (Steven Poole's non-fiction choice Guardian)