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Claire Wingfield

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Claire Wingfield graduated from her English degree at Cambridge University in 2002, and has worked in books and publishing ever since. She lives in Scotland, where she runs a busy writing and editorial consultancy. She is the author of 'Saving Francesca Maier', first in the This City series and '52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft'. ...more

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Average rating: 4.53 · 64 ratings · 35 reviews · 5 distinct works

	52 Dates for Writers: Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft 4.68 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just One More Thing: Large Print Edition by Dom Haslam (Goodreads Author), Claire Wingfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving Francesca Maier (This City Series) 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Venus Anh by M.L. Sund (Goodreads Author), Claire Wingfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prisoner of Foix: The most dangerous woman in the world (The Treasure of Trencavel Book 1) by Brian Charles Lilley (Goodreads Author), Helen Lilley, Claire Wingfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”
― Claire Wingfield, 52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias, and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft

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“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.”
― Claire Wingfield, 52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias, and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft

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“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”
― Claire Wingfield, 52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias, and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft

tags: books-for-writers, inspiration, writing

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