The bar for a debut manuscript from a new writer is set incredibly high –almost near perfection is required – giving new writers precious little margin for error. However, Kickback Media knows there are many talented new authors out there who have yet to find the right story to show off their true writing abilities.
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​Kickback Media offers a one-to-one story mentoring programme for unpublished / un-agented authors. Places are limited and by invitation only. The mentoring will focus on a specific story idea and only those stories which we think have genuine potential. The children’s publishing industry is a tough business and the bar for newcomers is set incredibly
high. Writing for pleasure is one thing, writing to get published is an entirely different matter altogether. Our focus is on high concept genre fiction for Middle Grade or YA with series or serial potential.

The mentoring course is designed for writers either starting or in the very earliest stages of a new project. The aim of the course is to help the writer work out what their story is, why it will connect with readers and how to get maximum excitement and USP out of the ‘storyworld’ they are building.

The core objectives across the six months are for the writer to have written a chapter plan / full story breakdown, written a first and second draft of the first 3-5 chapters, completed a half page story pitch for agents and have worked out the one/two line ‘story sell.’ Please note, meeting course objectives is dependent on the writer committing sufficient time to their project.

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