Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here you’ll find blog posts mainly written by the Cornerstones team and our authors. You’ll also find our most recent series’: Behind the Book, where we interview authors about their journey to publication, and Self-Publishing Spotlight, where we put some of our self-published authors in the hot seat. Let us know if there’s anything else you’d like to see here!
The Army of Wolves Shortlisted for the Kindle Storyteller Award 2019
Author Claire Moore shares her experience of the Cornerstones residential writing course, and how it led to an award nominated novel
What Am I Writing?: Young Adult vs Middle Grade
Our US Managing Editor, Michele Rubin, breaks down the difference between the genres
11 Steps to Publishing Your Novel
Finished writing but not sure about your next step? Helen Corner-Bryant outlines what to do
SoA Grants, Prizes, and Funding
We sit down with Paula Johnson, Head of Prizes and Awards at the Society of Authors, to discuss the range of financial assistance available to authors
The Missing Girl and My Road to Publication
Author and Cornerstones alumn Jenny Quintana writes about the ups and downs on the road to publication
The Girl in the Letter
Debut novelist Emily Gunnis writes about how she got an agent through Cornerstones
Editing and The Synapse Sequence
Debut novelist Daniel Godfrey’s experience of getting his Cornerstones report back
Guiding (Corner)stones Along the Path to Publication!
Novelist Cherry Radford writes about how her energising and enlightening Cornerstones reports helped her on the way to publication
Why I asked my brilliant publisher to stop selling my book! (And then they bought it back again)
Helen Corner-Bryant, founding director of Cornerstones Literary Consultancy, writes about risks and rights
Blog
Here you’ll find a curated selection of blog posts, mostly written by the Cornerstones team or our authors. You’ll also find our latest series', Behind the Book, where we interview Cornerstones alumni on their journey to publication, and Self-Publishing Spotlight, where we put our self-published authors in the hot seat. Let us know if there’s anything else you’d like to see here!