Author: Society of Authors in Scotland

Chairing literary events sounds like a good way for authors to earn while waiting for those royalty payments to trickle in, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Here are some top tips from expert chair Sarah Broadley.

This month’s Society of Authors in Scotland blog is a callout for Scottish authors to join the discussion around sustainability and the climate emergency

In our July blog from the Society of Authors in Scotland, Jennifer Morag Henderson considers libraries and archives essential not just to her own non-fiction work but to writers of fiction too

Heather Parry joins the SoA in a new Creative Scotland-funded role to support and advocate for authors in Scotland

Ceilidh Hutton on language: ‘Aye, I ken like, tha fios agam, I know, language is important. But which one to use? I can be a bit of a ditherer so why use one when I can use three.’

Nick Mills has a problem – animals have infested her books

Barbara Henderson discusses her journey to becoming an author and the two New Years’ resolutions that helped her along the way

Watch SoA in Scotland Committee member, Tita Berredo, draw a Rudolph the reindeer Christmas card

SoA in Scotland member Sean Lusk offers his personal experience of finding the right agent

SoA in Scotland member Moira McPartlin talks about writing in dialect

Merryn Glover, former co-Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland, speaks of her shepherding experiences, whilst researching for her new novel ‘Of Stone and Sky’