• How does a publishing deal with a writer’s advance of £15,000 sound to you?

Have you written an adventure novel exceeding 50K words? You may be the next winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

What’s particularly good about this opportunity is that self-published novels are eligible for the Best Unpublished Manuscript Prize.

Is your manuscript too long? Janice Hardy shares advice on how to give your manuscript a necessary trimming.

Submissions are open. Read the guidelines, revise your work, and submit.

Good luck!

Image: Georges Seurat. Two Sailboats at Grandcamp (Deux voiliers à Grandcamp), c. 1885. Oil on panel, Overall: 6 1/4 x 9 13/16 in. (15.8 x 25 cm). BF1153. Public Domain.