Writing a Book

Alison Baverstock is the author of 13 books and teaches creative writing. She is a former publisher and works as a consultant to the publishing industry. Talk about playing both sides of the street!

Her 256-page paperback, IS THERE A BOOK IN YOU? was published by A&C Black and came out at the first of this year. It includes a questionnaire that may help you discover if writing a book is really for you. Every chapter in this book is pertinent to one of the questions and contain advice from experienced writers, including P.D. James, Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Margaret Drabble, Katie Fforde, and more.

It will help you answer your own questions, ones like:

• whether your writing is any good
• how to know if you have what it takes
• what you should write about