A desire to help aspiring writers find success in the literary world led a young Littlebury woman to quit a successful career to set up her own company.

Twenty-six-year-old Keirsten Clark started Writing Limited at Station Approach, Audley End, with the aim of supporting writers and helping them to get published.

A former St Mary’s Convent, Cambridge, schoolgirl, Keirsten started working as an assistant to the managing director of a leading literary agency in London after leaving university. She progressed to having her own clients and had a bright future ahead of her as a literary agent.

`As an aspiring writer myself, I began to get so frustrated at the limitations on an agent’s time and the lack of help or direction given to rejected writers,’ said Keirsten.

So she quit her job and set up Writing Limited three months ago.

`Writers need feedback, support and advice on how to progress, but most literary agents are too busy to do that,’ she said.

Already her company has won an award – the Writing Solutions Award from the Journal Publishing Company – and has a number of budding writers on its books. They include children’s writers, script writers, European writers – who find it particularly hard to break into the UK market – and an award winning businessman who is seeking a ghost writer to tell his story. Fiction writers and people looking for illustrations to go with their writing have also been in touch with Keirsten and her team and they have provided a good deal of support via email to a variety of other potential clients.

`The past month has been really busy and I’m very surprised because I didn’t expect things to take off so quickly,’ she said.

New writers find it extremely difficult to get published, but Keirsten and her team are able to steer them through the minefield of editing, polishing and promoting their works to appropriate agents and publishers.

Our fees are realistic and we tailor them to the means of our clients. We are not out to fleece new writers, but help them find their way in the publishing industry,’ said Keirsten.

For more information about Writing Limited log on to www.writing.co.uk