Write Now! A Guide to becoming a Writer is a helpful book. It is practical and covers a lot of ground. It begins with self-analysis ? with a view to discovering if you have the personal qualities needed to fulfil your ambition to become a published author. It offers encouragement, analyses the nuts and bolts of writing and explores many genres, especially the novel, but also has chapters on newspaper/magazine articles, the short story and poetry. This work will be of benefit to those who want to develop both the craft and art of writing. The author demonstrates how grammar is linked to style and how it aids clarity. If you want to know how to create realistic characters, write good dialogue, set a scene and develop atmosphere it's all here at your fingertips.

Kieran Beville is author of Write Now ? A Practical Guide to Becoming a Writer (Limerick Writers' Centre, 2019). He has had a substantial number of poems and articles published in various newspapers, journals and magazines and four collections of poetry (Revival Press). His book, Pulling Back the Clouds is a short biography of Mike Kelly, collector of the die-cast model aircraft display at Shannon Airport (LWC, 2020). In 2022 Beville was appointed Ollamh (Poet Laureate) for Limerick.