How to Be a Writer: The Definitive Guide to Getting Published and Making a Living from Writing

A comprehensive guide to the career of writing featuring an introduction by Fay Weldon CBE.

How To Be a Writer is a comprehensive guide to the career of writing from experienced writer and creative writing tutor Sally O’Reilly.

The book will cover questions such as: If you want to be a writer, should you invest in a creative writing course? If so, which one? Are writing groups a good thing? What grants, awards and prizes are available to the aspiring writer? How should you plan your career in the long term?

It will also feature an introduction from Fay Weldon - ’Why I wish I’d read this book when I was 25’ - and will include comments and case studies from other established authors, agents and industry experts.

How To Be a Writer will include everything that a writer needs to know about running their own career, from choosing an agent to café scribbling, and from filing a tax return to flirting with the literati and will be an essential reference book for any author who takes their work seriously.

Sally O’Reilly is the author of two novels and has freelanced for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Evening Standard and New Scientist, specialising in careers. She is also a creative writing tutor with the Open University and Brunel University.