Work Experience

Doing my Year 10 work experience at Busybird has inspired me more than I could have hoped. With 80s music playing constantly in the background, it makes the atmosphere even … Continued

My Week at Busybird

Staring at a blank page, writing a blog about … anything?   At first, I was expecting Busybird to be a normal publishing business, very formal, very bland.  When I walked … Continued

Get Digging

Too many writers sit around waiting for inspiration to fuel them through the course of their writing. It just won’t happen. Inspiration is such a small part of the writing … Continued

The Ego in Writing

Years ago, a forty-something friend went to an open workshop at his local library. This friend had been heavily published, worked as a writing mentor, and knew as much (if … Continued

No Guarantees

There are some real sharks out there in the world of self-publishing. I’m a writer – and have been for almost forty years. Kev Howlett, the owner of Busybird Publishing, … Continued

Stepping Into Genre Fiction

The past few years of my life have been spent knee-deep in a literature degree. Countless hours have been dedicated reading and studying literary fiction, from Wilde to Woolf to … Continued

Learning and Growing

“You need to write a blog. It can be about anything.” Those were the infamous words spoken, yet I still didn’t know what to write. I went through many examples … Continued

Nerd vs Academic

If you are a reader, more often than not you are judged. Judged by society. Judged by those close to you. Judged by yourself. As a young reader discovering the … Continued