Louise Walters Books

Welcome to another of my blog posts looking at various aspects of writing fiction (also creative non-fiction and memoir. Much of my advice applies to that too). This post is all about showing and telling. It's a bit of a thorny issue, and I think the concept is widely misunderstood. Hence writers can get a bit uppity about it! I hope this little post will throw some light on how you can use showing and telling, or not, to your advantage. Think of showing and telling as a tech

I was going to talk about showing and telling in this post, but I'll return to that next time. For now I want to discuss my role as an...

It's a good question, isn't it? It's a word often used... and is also often proffered by literary agents as a reason for turning our work...

I've been working for seven years as a freelance editor. When I started my indie press Louise Walters Books I knew I would need a regular...

Welcome to my new blog! My old Blogger blog has died a death, and I can't access it... well, it's been a couple of years or so since I last wrote a blog post... it's still available on the web, but I can't add to it anymore. So I've set up this new one. I'll be writing a few book reviews, writing-and-editing-advice posts, and in time I'll be reflecting on life post-indie-publishing. I recently made the decision to close the publishing side of my business. It was a tough decis