Author Breakthrough Club (formerly Debut Author Club)

The Author Breakthrough Club is not currently accepting new members. You can still join our Fiction Tutors’ community on Facebook in the Fiction Tutors’ Cafe where we provide a space to virtually meet other writers, ask questions, get support and take part in our mini-challenges. You can also sign up for the Fiction Tutors’ newsletter, with updates from us and a fortnightly rundown of publishing news and useful links.

And our past Author Breakthrough Club mini-courses are available to purchase directly here. Keep checking back as we add new courses.

Mini courses that you can buy now or are coming soon

Setting up your newsletter

The difficult second novel

Social Media

Working with an agent

Author productivity

Money in publishing

Pitching your novel

How to use Scrivener

Book covers

Synopses

Who’s who in publishing

Author branding

Setting & World Building

Writing the other/writing disability 

The blank page – how to find and develop ideas 

PR & Publicity

Editing Your Novel

Titles and Tag Lines 

Writing Comedy

 

Who we are

Alison, Janet and Jeev met as new authors and bonded over the trials and tribulations of navigating traditional publishing without an agent. Between us, we’ve been published by everything from tiny two-person publishers to imprints of the big four. We’ve negotiated our own contracts, worked with agents, left agents who were wrong for us, self published rights reverted books and found our own opportunities. Add to that, we’ve mentored a lot of people who have been signed by publishers (and we’ve read a lot of contracts). We’ll be on hand to help.