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(Note: this is my old website but you can still contact me via the email address on the contact page. I’m on Facebook using my legal name of Laurence King. Daren King was my writer name during the 1990s and 2000s, I now write sci-fi as James Anders Banks and I’m experimenting with crime thriller as Jack Law. You will find my new website at jackandjames.consulting.)

It is well known that only one in every 10,000 novels finds a print publisher. Of the forty or so authors who have come to me with an idea for a publishable book and completed the project, eight already have publishers – others have agents and will likely find a publisher in the future.

I worked closely with Eve Harris as her writing mentor on her debut novel The Marrying Of Chani Kaufman, which reached the longlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize; and also with Mitch Feierstein on his non fiction book Planet Ponzi, now published in hardback in both the UK and the United States.

For details of my Complete Novel Mentoring course click here.

My own work has been published in the UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, Australia, China, Canada and the United States. Mouse Noses on Toast, my first children’s novel, won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize, while Peter the Penguin Pioneer reached the Blue Peter Book Awards shortlist. My debut adult novel, Boxy an Star, an exploration of the dangers of 1990s hedonism, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize, and is currently being made into a feature film.



King’s first novel, Boxy an Star, was published in 1999 to gasps of astonishment. Critics described it as ‘exceptional’, ‘maverick’, ‘scorchingly poetic’, ‘my very favourite work of fiction this year’ and ‘like some delirious encounter between PG Wodehouse and William S Burroughs’.
 
Katy Guest, The Independent


My greatest fault was that I didn’t think I needed to be taught how to write.
 
Richard Ruegg, Queensland, Australia




Click here for details of my Complete Novel Writing Course, my mentoring service and related services, and quotes from former and existing authors, journalists and business clients.

Laurence Daren King
 
Boxy an Star film poster.


 
Eve Harris publicity event, Waterstones, Hampstead, London.


“I like Daren King a lot.”
 
Dave Gorman


 
Mitch Feierstein, left, discussing Planet Ponzi on national television in the US.