Your Life Writing: Tap into Your Emotions
There are many reasons why you might write about your life. You may have had an adventurous journey that people will be interested in reading about, or you have overcome … Continued
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Your publishing opportunities
Do you know your publishing opportunities? It’s all very well to write something and think it will be published just because you wish it so. The more publishing history you … Continued
Questions to ask a publisher
Are you looking for ways to publish your book? Does it feel like a minefield and you’ve heard lots of horror stories? Do your homework and it will be anxiety … Continued
Creativity versus productivity
How are you? Climbing the walls? Languishing in the depths of a cosy couch with a book or Netflix? Writing your book with gusto? Feeling guilty because you have not … Continued
5 Costly Self-Publishing Mistakes
Don’t let self-publishing your book put you in debt or send you around the bend in frustration.
Writing in a time of unrest
This is not exactly the kind of editorial that I expected to write in 2020, or any time for that matter, but life has a way of throwing unexpected things … Continued
Your Voice Matters
When you read, you hear the narrative in your head. The voice you hear won’t be the idealised version of your own – you know the one you hear in … Continued
The Distribution of the Future
Several weeks ago we blogged about The Publishing Landscape. Somebody commented that the benefit of traditional publishing is the distribution, so getting a 7.5% traditional publishing royalty of something is … Continued