Inside the July 2019 issue of Writing Magazine:

- How to grow your writing community and support network, on and offline. 

- Constructing a fictional world - Why solid worldbuilding is an important skill for all writers

- Using all five senses to build suspense and fear in your horror

- School’s out! How to juggle your freelance business with kids’ holidays

- Author experience: How children’s author Abi Elphinstone combats her dyslexia

- The joy of retreats: boost your creativity with a writer’s retreat

Interviews and profiles

STAR interview: US crime king Jeffery Deaver returns with a new lone wolf hero 

Explore the style and technique of the ‘original’ novelist, Daniel Defoe

Spy thriller author Charles Cumming shares the rhythms and routines of his writing day

Bookshop mogul Tim Waterstone highlights five top reads from his personal bookshelf 

Renita D’Silva explains how she researches and writers her historical and contemporary romances

Your exclusive writing for children supplement

Learn from industry experts and successful writers the structure and requirements of publishing for different age ranges, from picture books all the way through to YA (young adult), plus:

• How to write for modern audiences 

• How to handle contemporary issues and how far should you go 

• How to set up a series

• How to organise and run workshops and events for young readers 

• Using the internet and social media for marketing children’s books

...and much more!