Sara Grant
@authorsaragrant.bsky.social
In June 2025, Bloomsbury will publish The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. An editorial process I developed over my many years as an editor, author, university lecturer and mentor.
Huge congratulations to Jasmine Richards and the Storymix Books team on the publication of its first book — THE OTHER FATHER CHRISTMAS. It’s a delightful, heartwarming Christmas tale. It was lovely to celebrate last night with so many Storymix writers, supporters and friends! @storymix.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Huge congratulations to Jasmine Richards and the Storymix Books team on the publication of its first book — THE OTHER FATHER CHRISTMAS. It’s a delightful, heartwarming Christmas tale. It was lovely to celebrate last night with so many Storymix writers, supporters and friends! @storymix.bsky.social
Thanks to The Women’s Prize Trust for inviting me share my top 5 tips to transform your rough draft as part of its Writers’ Toolkit. Lots of great advice from other writers on the site. Check it out!
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Five Top Tips (with exercises) to Transform Your Rough Draft by Sara Grant - Women's Prize
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September 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Thanks to The Women’s Prize Trust for inviting me share my top 5 tips to transform your rough draft as part of its Writers’ Toolkit. Lots of great advice from other writers on the site. Check it out!
womensprize.com/five-top-tip...
womensprize.com/five-top-tip...
Congrats to @storymix.bsky.social for the launch of OXFORD BLOOD. Murder at Oxford Interview week. It’s a great read!
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Congrats to @storymix.bsky.social for the launch of OXFORD BLOOD. Murder at Oxford Interview week. It’s a great read!
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Entries for @uvcompetition.bsky.social close one week today!
Winners will be published in the #UV26 anthology and introduced to agents and editors at the exclusive launch party.
Don't miss this incredible chance to launch your #kidlit career🚀
undiscoveredvoices.com
Winners will be published in the #UV26 anthology and introduced to agents and editors at the exclusive launch party.
Don't miss this incredible chance to launch your #kidlit career🚀
undiscoveredvoices.com
kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and says " 1 week left "
ALT: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and says " 1 week left "
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September 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Entries for @uvcompetition.bsky.social close one week today!
Winners will be published in the #UV26 anthology and introduced to agents and editors at the exclusive launch party.
Don't miss this incredible chance to launch your #kidlit career🚀
undiscoveredvoices.com
Winners will be published in the #UV26 anthology and introduced to agents and editors at the exclusive launch party.
Don't miss this incredible chance to launch your #kidlit career🚀
undiscoveredvoices.com
SCBWI EU is offering an online workshop on Voice given by yours truly on Fri 26 Sept. (Be aware the listed time is for Amsterdam.) It’s a practical discussion on voice with exercises to help you uncover and enhance the voice of your work-in-progress.
Details are here:
www.scbwi.org/events/editi...
Details are here:
www.scbwi.org/events/editi...
Edit Your Work to Enhance Voice with Sara Grant
Hone your novel’s voice with expert tips and exercises from author and editor Sara Grant.
www.scbwi.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
SCBWI EU is offering an online workshop on Voice given by yours truly on Fri 26 Sept. (Be aware the listed time is for Amsterdam.) It’s a practical discussion on voice with exercises to help you uncover and enhance the voice of your work-in-progress.
Details are here:
www.scbwi.org/events/editi...
Details are here:
www.scbwi.org/events/editi...
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** One month to go** to get your entries into Undiscovered Voices - the best competition around for unpublished, unagented kidlit and YA writers (okay, we might be slightly biased...)
We can't wait to read your manuscripts 👀
undiscoveredvoices.com
We can't wait to read your manuscripts 👀
undiscoveredvoices.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
** One month to go** to get your entries into Undiscovered Voices - the best competition around for unpublished, unagented kidlit and YA writers (okay, we might be slightly biased...)
We can't wait to read your manuscripts 👀
undiscoveredvoices.com
We can't wait to read your manuscripts 👀
undiscoveredvoices.com
What could be better? A day spent with writers sharing my favourite exercises & tips on how to revise a novel at the Limehouse Library Hotel. The energy & talent in the room was inspiring. I love doing virtual events but you can’t beat the synergy and connections that are only possible in real life!
July 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
What could be better? A day spent with writers sharing my favourite exercises & tips on how to revise a novel at the Limehouse Library Hotel. The energy & talent in the room was inspiring. I love doing virtual events but you can’t beat the synergy and connections that are only possible in real life!
Just found these! Paper pens that are perfect to be tucked into a book so I can make notes in the margins. Yes, I write in books. I’m always dissecting the books I’m reading to figure out how the author creates magic on the page — and how I can learn to do the same.
July 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just found these! Paper pens that are perfect to be tucked into a book so I can make notes in the margins. Yes, I write in books. I’m always dissecting the books I’m reading to figure out how the author creates magic on the page — and how I can learn to do the same.
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** Submissions OPEN ** 🥳
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
Entries close: 8 September 2025
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
Entries close: 8 September 2025
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
** Submissions OPEN ** 🥳
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
Entries close: 8 September 2025
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
Entries close: 8 September 2025
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
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I got my very first long listing and much need confidence boost from Undiscovered Voices! It is such a great competition, and definitely worth checking out if you write kids books!
July 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I got my very first long listing and much need confidence boost from Undiscovered Voices! It is such a great competition, and definitely worth checking out if you write kids books!
Absolutely buzzing with excitement for George Kirk’s debut picture book BESSIE’S BEES!
July 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Absolutely buzzing with excitement for George Kirk’s debut picture book BESSIE’S BEES!
Submissions open today for the 10th Undiscovered Voices! If you are an unagented and unpublished SCBWI member in the UK or EU you should check it. The anthology has launched the writing careers of hundreds of writers. Can’t wait to see who we will discover! @uvcompetition.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Submissions open today for the 10th Undiscovered Voices! If you are an unagented and unpublished SCBWI member in the UK or EU you should check it. The anthology has launched the writing careers of hundreds of writers. Can’t wait to see who we will discover! @uvcompetition.bsky.social
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We’re so excited to be sharing the cover of DEAD
YARD: SEEDS OF DOOM, the first in a spook-tastic
new horror middle grade series inspired by Caribbean
folklore by P.J. Kilburn 🎬
🎨 Cover Art Markia Jenai
✨ Cover Design Kimberley Chen
📚 Available to request on Netgalley!
Coming September 2025!
YARD: SEEDS OF DOOM, the first in a spook-tastic
new horror middle grade series inspired by Caribbean
folklore by P.J. Kilburn 🎬
🎨 Cover Art Markia Jenai
✨ Cover Design Kimberley Chen
📚 Available to request on Netgalley!
Coming September 2025!
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We’re so excited to be sharing the cover of DEAD
YARD: SEEDS OF DOOM, the first in a spook-tastic
new horror middle grade series inspired by Caribbean
folklore by P.J. Kilburn 🎬
🎨 Cover Art Markia Jenai
✨ Cover Design Kimberley Chen
📚 Available to request on Netgalley!
Coming September 2025!
YARD: SEEDS OF DOOM, the first in a spook-tastic
new horror middle grade series inspired by Caribbean
folklore by P.J. Kilburn 🎬
🎨 Cover Art Markia Jenai
✨ Cover Design Kimberley Chen
📚 Available to request on Netgalley!
Coming September 2025!
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Submissions open NEXT WEEK for #UV26 - how's your manuscript looking?
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @authorsaragrant.bsky.social has put together this helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/checkli...
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @authorsaragrant.bsky.social has put together this helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/checkli...
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
a checklist with three check marks and a pencil on it
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June 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Submissions open NEXT WEEK for #UV26 - how's your manuscript looking?
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @authorsaragrant.bsky.social has put together this helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/checkli...
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @authorsaragrant.bsky.social has put together this helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/checkli...
@scbwi-bi.bsky.social
Thanks, Amber!
This book is a veritable treasure trove of tips and advice for revising your manuscript. @authorsaragrant.bsky.social is an accomplished author, editor and all-around lovely person. If you’re an author I can’t recommend this book highly enough! 😊🎉
June 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Thanks, Amber!
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⬇️ If you’re writing a novel THIS is the book you need once you have a first draft. Nobody understands editing and getting to the heart of a story better than Sara Grant. Written with authority and warmth and out now! @authorsaragrant.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
June 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
⬇️ If you’re writing a novel THIS is the book you need once you have a first draft. Nobody understands editing and getting to the heart of a story better than Sara Grant. Written with authority and warmth and out now! @authorsaragrant.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks, Sue!!
⬇️ If you’re writing a novel THIS is the book you need once you have a first draft. Nobody understands editing and getting to the heart of a story better than Sara Grant. Written with authority and warmth and out now! @authorsaragrant.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thanks, Sue!!
Top tip: read books in the same genre & for the same age reader as your work-in-progress. The more you fill your brain with great writing, the more likely you are to produce it. What are you reading for inspiration?
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Top tip: read books in the same genre & for the same age reader as your work-in-progress. The more you fill your brain with great writing, the more likely you are to produce it. What are you reading for inspiration?
Spotted the word 'theme' scribbled on an Underground train so thought I'd share this John Gardner quote from On Becoming a Novelist: “Theme is like the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion, indispensable but not, as a general rule, what takes the reader’s breath away.”
June 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Spotted the word 'theme' scribbled on an Underground train so thought I'd share this John Gardner quote from On Becoming a Novelist: “Theme is like the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion, indispensable but not, as a general rule, what takes the reader’s breath away.”
Can't believe it!🎉It's publication day for THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL.🎉75 exercises & interrogations. A practical, step-by-step guide to make your novel submission ready. Thanks to the team at Bloomsbury's Writers' & Artists' for being great publishers & lovely people.
June 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Can't believe it!🎉It's publication day for THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL.🎉75 exercises & interrogations. A practical, step-by-step guide to make your novel submission ready. Thanks to the team at Bloomsbury's Writers' & Artists' for being great publishers & lovely people.
Tomorrow THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL is published. Here are a few ideas to tighten your writing. These were collected over years of giving my editing workshop. I asked writers for common errors & pet peeves. What would you add to this list? www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/tight...
June 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Tomorrow THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL is published. Here are a few ideas to tighten your writing. These were collected over years of giving my editing workshop. I asked writers for common errors & pet peeves. What would you add to this list? www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/tight...
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL is out tomorrow! Here's a little pop quiz for your work-in-progress. I use it as a diagnostic tool to identify any plot problems. Hope you find it useful! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/solut...
June 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL is out tomorrow! Here's a little pop quiz for your work-in-progress. I use it as a diagnostic tool to identify any plot problems. Hope you find it useful! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/solut...
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🌱A vandalised lucky money plant.
🪙An ancient Chinese coin.
👯♂️Two best pals.
🙄One annoying sidekick.
Stir them up…and…you get:
⭐️The launch of The Lucky House Detective Agency⭐️
Scarlett Li, with pics by Sian James.
A @storymix.bsky.social production; pub’d by @knightsofbooks.bsky.social
🪙An ancient Chinese coin.
👯♂️Two best pals.
🙄One annoying sidekick.
Stir them up…and…you get:
⭐️The launch of The Lucky House Detective Agency⭐️
Scarlett Li, with pics by Sian James.
A @storymix.bsky.social production; pub’d by @knightsofbooks.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🌱A vandalised lucky money plant.
🪙An ancient Chinese coin.
👯♂️Two best pals.
🙄One annoying sidekick.
Stir them up…and…you get:
⭐️The launch of The Lucky House Detective Agency⭐️
Scarlett Li, with pics by Sian James.
A @storymix.bsky.social production; pub’d by @knightsofbooks.bsky.social
🪙An ancient Chinese coin.
👯♂️Two best pals.
🙄One annoying sidekick.
Stir them up…and…you get:
⭐️The launch of The Lucky House Detective Agency⭐️
Scarlett Li, with pics by Sian James.
A @storymix.bsky.social production; pub’d by @knightsofbooks.bsky.social
To celebrate the publication of THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL this week: Here's an extract from the book that offers a series of questions to ask about your work-in-progress. Your answers may point out big picture issues you need to address. www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/big-p...
June 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
To celebrate the publication of THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL this week: Here's an extract from the book that offers a series of questions to ask about your work-in-progress. Your answers may point out big picture issues you need to address. www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/big-p...
Great day @capitalcrime.bsky.social! Interesting discussions on all things crime, mystery & writing. I’ve shown incredible restraint and only purchased 6 books…so far.
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Great day @capitalcrime.bsky.social! Interesting discussions on all things crime, mystery & writing. I’ve shown incredible restraint and only purchased 6 books…so far.