Wannabe a Writer?
Subtitle ::::: Winner for August 2009 :::::
By Jane Wenham-Jones
Published by
Accent Press Ltd
ISBN 9781905170814
Category Self help
August 2009
Synopsis
This hilarious, informative guide to getting into print, is a must-have for anyone who's ever thought they've got a book in them. Drawing on her own experiences as a novelist and journalist, Writing Magazine's Agony Aunt Jane Wenham-Jones takes you through the minefield of the writing process, giving advice on everything from how to avoid Writer's Bottom to what to wear to your launch party.
Author's Biography
Jane Wenham-Jones is a well-known author and journalist. She writes for women’s magazines and the national press and has a humorous weekly column in her local newspaper. She is the author of three novels which have received wide acclaim. She lives with her husband and son in Broadstairs, Kent.
Reviews
Excellent. A must-have book for every budding writer. - New Writing Magazine
Practical and funny... packed with information and advice for new writers - Womans Weekly
Price £9.99 Paperback
Practical and funny... packed with information and advice for new writers - Womans Weekly
Price £9.99 Paperback
Reader Comments
Not the usual how-to book. 'Wannabe a writer?' is brilliantly written book, laced with helpful tips... all backed up experience. Wish I hadn't missed the vote!
Without a doubt the most informative and brilliantly-written book on writing ever to grace my shelves. I really cannot possibly big this book up enough to do it justice - and for the record, no, I'm not related to Jane in anyway, just keen to see her get the praise she deserves for this superb volume of work.
I wish had been in time to vote. This is an excellent book and a excellent reference. Best of all, with Jane's enthusiasm and humour, if you have even a small inclination to write, this book WILL change your life.
Gareth Foy
Excellent entertaining book
Fantastic read, beats down the technicalities to offer a light-hearted leg-up to pick up that pen (or keyboard). Thanks Jane.
entertaining and instructive
tells it more or less like it is. Such a change.
An excellent book for new writers from those experienced in the world of publishing who know how it REALLY is.
Good advice charmingly given.
Brilliant book - entertaining, honest and informative.
A very funny,interesting and informative book. Lots of advice and helpful hints for the wanna be published writer.
Even as a published writer, I keep this book on my desk to get me through the yuck times - and remind me that we all go there.
Brilliant book, packed with helpful tips.
A highly readable, informative guide for any wannabe writer and hey, its role-on-floor-laughing funny too!
Excellent advice throughout, which like a dodgy curry, kinda stays with you. I would thoroughly recommend it. ;-)
fab book, fab person......
A witty well written book, informative and truly helpful for the budding writer.
Loved it. It's a tough job so it's nice to laugh along with hearing the tough advice.
Clever, accessible, helpful, funny, and a good read. I couldn't ask more from a how-to book.
Couldn't put it down. So informative, yet really accessible, funny and down to earth. Thank you Jane.
Read this fantastic, funny, but very useful book when I didn't have a publishing contract for my novel and now I have! What more need I say...
the ideal book to motivate me to just do it and do it now
Have just finished reading this book. As an aspiring writer with a wad of rejections I found it extremely funny yet highly informative. It completely puts things into perspective.
Well done Jane Wenham-Jones, this one now has pride of place next to my Writers & Artists Yearbook
PS. Its a lot more enjoyable than the W & R Yearbook as well!
A fantastically funny read that made me want to reach for my own writing pen. It has the right level of inspiration and comedy to have a great motivational feel.
Couldn't put it down. Super read!
I loved this book. It's a must-have resource for all writers, whether they be budding or in full bloom.
I laughed so hard I almost lost a leg... A cracking read.
Excellent!
A good read and inspirational. Love the humour.
Entertaining and enlightening, brilliant Jane!
Just the sort of information I needed. Thanks Jane
Will be very useful when I write "The Geodesy of Margat'e Shell Grotto"
Brilliant book, very funny but also very informative. A lot of what I read was exactly what had been going through my mind so it is nice to know other people feel the same way when they write. Thanks for making me feel better about myself and my writing!
Brilliant fun !!!
BLOODY BRILLIANT
Helped get my brain into gear and fingers on the keyboard. Written with great panache, hugely funny desparately helpful. Thank you Jane
This is an excellent guide for the novice writer,It is written in a lighthearted but informative style that covers all the essentials.
This book kept me going through many long, dark hours of re-drafting. Thankyou!!
A great 'How to...' book written with much humour and experience.
Hello Jane (: Amazing, truly.
Bex x
This book is one of the funniest and most informative books I have ever read on the art of writing, and I have read a lot. This book had me laughing and wanting to get on with my writing at the same time. I also said to myself, 'I wish I had written that.'
I absolutely loved wanna be a writer. It was not only witty and informative but very honest about the kind of lifestyle you might be looking at as a writer.
Wonderful book my wife loves it and refers to it often
a great investment
although I've developed skin of titanium (killer to keep moisturised) this book was like finding a new exciting and empathetic pal. I'm treating it to a movie tomorrow, followed by dinner. Screw the waiters eying me strangely, this book and I have bonded so if I want to feed it bites of my Beef Wellington, I will!
If it wasn't for Jane's witty and inspirational words of wisdom and her down to earth, tell it as it is insight into the world of writing and publishing, I would never have had the courage to send off my own synopsis to a publisher for the book I am writing AND he wants to read more!! How good is that! Thanks Jane, couldn't have done it without you! Go girl!!! x
Absolutely Fab read!! Jane's a real star! It's bound to become the Wannabe's Bible - only with a sense of humour thrown in. Inspirational, informative and a pleasure to read. It was a breath of fresh air from all those other boring and stuffy books all us wannabe's have read on how to write and get published. xxx
I read Jane Wenham-Jones Wannabe a Writer? and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it an easy read and best of all, loved the humour it was written with. I felt inspired to start writing and it's packed with great useful tips for any aspiring writer.
Brillaint book to read, Well Done jane
Jane Wenham-Jones is a Writers writer and makes writing fun. After reading this book if you'll excuse the pun it's a must if you 'Wannabe a writer'. On a serious side it's packed with helpful tips to compliment Jane's clever humour. She is the laughter we need in a much too serious world. If ever there's a book for now this is it.
A great read for all would be writers!
So much for voice, literary skills and penmanship, this book tells you the truth - a sense of humour and more than a touch of lunacy leave you better equipped for life as a writer. This book tells it like it is. Brilliant!
What a great read. Very informative, but also a real rib tickler.
I can imagine Jane is a great person to be around, funny, articulate and a bit of a chatter box, I bet!!
Excellent book. packed with great ideas
my compliments jane, excellent
Funny, realistic and inspirational - a must for every writer!
Absolutely fabulous. I laughed 'till I cried. One of the most helpful 'how to' books on the market. I
Wannabe is a life changer.
Excellent stuff PBB
Brilliant book - hilariously funny and packed with helpful stuff too
Jane has a great sense of humour and her book provides very helpful tips, presented in a most interesting manner.
Essential reading for me - I was accepted by the first and only publisher I approached and I got some chapters in the women's press too. Thank you thank you Jane.
Excellent book - informative but really, really funny!
Funny, inspirational and a real must for any wannabes out there. I bought it as an educational book - i didn't bargain for the laughs or the creative juices to suddenly start flowing!
Fab book! Fab author!
excellent book
Jane is quite unique - and a breath of fresh air.
I loved this book so much, I've recently read it again. It was just as funny, interesting and helpful the second time round.
Jane is great fun and her book an inspiration to wannabe writers
hilarious, loved it, and it's true... writers bottom does exist
Absolutely brilliant!
It is a real treat to be instructed in the art of writing by someone who you can envision with a glass of wine in one hand, chuckling away at her own jokes. A real gem, highly recommended...
This book allows you to learn and laugh at the same time.
Liked the book immensely
wonderfully exuberant writing..very enjoyable read..
Janes' book 'wannabe a writer' is so inspiring and witty, she manages so well to inject humour, but give you all the important facts and pit falls of trying to get into the competitive world of writing, the book most definately gets my vote - A Bird
This is not only the diamond that every wannabe writer has been looking for, and to which they can ALL relate...it's very very funny, as in LAUGH OUT LOUD ON THE BUS funny... great stuff, terrific author..
Brillant! Informative, funny, packed with useful tips.
I think this book is an excellent addition to any writer's bookcase. It's both amusing and informative.
Being both practical and humorous this is an excellent tonic for writers at all stages of their craft. As well as bringing laughter it is also an excellent teaching tool - I have learnt so much. But, tell your friends to buy their own copy because if you lend yours out you will never get it back.
A must for authors of all levels.
This is an excellent book for would-be writers. It is has the best of information and doesn't hold back on the diffuculties ahead, yet at the same time it is filled with humour so that the reader doesn't become too dejected.
Fantastic book! Humourous and packed full of interesting information witha practical and down to earth style that I love.
Probably the only how-to book on writing that'll make you laugh out loud. Jane Wenham-Jones tells it how it really is - a great read.
An excellent book. Very funny and, for aspiring writers of almost any variety, very useful -- sometimes both at once.
An inspiration - just what I needed to get me working on a novel. When I feel I'm flagging, just dipping into it gets me going again. Thanks, Jane!
An excellent and accurate book about the real life of writers.
Jane Wenham-Jones is a writers' writer. In this book she not only dispenses great advice, but also gives a glimpse into the sometimes manic life of a writer. It's not all sitting on your bum making up stories!
Unputdownable...Once I started I couldn't stop, Jane had me mesmerised....Hilarious yet practical, motivational...one of the best reads I've had for a long, long time...and as a book reviewer I read many...DO READ THIS BOOK and if anyone is not sure which to buy and which to vote for - THIS IS THE ONE!
Enjoyable read, with a lot of detailed information. Extremely interesting with a good insight of how to be a writer. Not one dull monent as the book is extremely informative and fun at the same time
Very informative read and gives you all the information you would require to start writing. Very interesting, funny at the same time and an excellent read.
I've read a wide selection of authors who give advice on how to write more effectively. Beyond doubt Jane Wenham-Jones's "Wanabe a Writer" is the best because she gets straight to the point. I couldn't stop laughing when reading sections of this book - her humour underpins her wise advice and vast pools of experience. Definitely the winner,
This is an hilarious book. It gives loads of information, some you would never have thought of asking about, but it does it in such a way that you can laugh all the way through. I read it as if it was a novel.
A fantastic book on writing! Very motivational, so funny in places and leaves you with one desire and that is to WRITE. It is almost like having your own private tutor in the room with you:)
An excellent piece of work, which deals with all aspects of writing, and presented with humour and great skill.
Good info for wannabe writers presented in an accessible and humorous way. I especially liked the way several opinions were quoted for most topics giving a variety of approaches.
I loved this book. Not only is it full of brillinat advice from a whole range of authors, but it is hilariously funny too. Jane Wenham-Jones' wit and style will inspire you to write whilst rolling around the floor in hysterics.
Great fun - and useful too!
What a wonderful inspiring book. It is certainly helping me on my writing journey
Offers fabulous advice whilst making you laugh!
This book might give you a pain in the ribs from laughing, but along with the mirth come abundant helpful information, hazard warnings and encouraging pointers for any would-be (or even established) author.
I have recommended this book to so many friends who want to be writers. It is both fun to read and very practical...the sort of book you can dip into at any time and get useful tips.
Brilliant! Hilarious! What writers are really like and how you can get that novel published, too. One of the best 'how to' books on writing I've ever read (and I've read a lot!).
A handy book for aspiring authors which goes through the basics with some fine examples.
This book is just brilliant! It covers everything you need to know about writing with plenty of humour to make the process enjoyable.
This is a brilliant, light-hearted read. It is informative and motivating and by far one of the best books of its kind that I have read.
Perceptive, comprehensive and readable.