alison may, amelia berry & ally sinclair

Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am Alison May. I’m a writer, tutor, editor and blogger. I also write as Ally Sinclair and Amelia Berry and I’m half of the writing team that makes up Juliet Bell.

You can also hear more of my thoughts on life,writing and publishing on YouTube and (less recently!) on my blog.

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Recent Posts: alison may, amelia berry & ally sinclair

How I wrote a novel in 4 weeks*

*not actually a novel, a first draft** ** not even a whole first draft really… Anyway it was a big old hunk of writing and I’ve been documenting the process on my Instagram here, so you’re very welcome to go watch all that back, but now I’ve made it to the finish line I thought […]

The things you just can’t say

You hear the phrase ‘you just can’t say anything any more’ a lot. Most often in comments from people parodying the kind of people they imagine say ‘you just can’t say anything any more,’ but second most often from people who have just said something horrid and been criticised for it. Obviously what they actually […]