Blog
After typing ‘The End’ in your manuscript, what should be your next step? How can you ensure that your carefully crafted words reach as many readers as possible? Until about 15 years ago, there was essentially only one viable path to the market: find an...
Blog
If you’re considering writing a book, you might be asking yourself how do I even start? If you look around for advice, there are about as many ways as there are authors. For fiction, broadly, the advice can be parcelled into three or four approaches. Some writers...
Blog
I don’t know about you, but when I pick a non-fiction title in a bookshop, I flick straight to the back in search of the index. It’s an old habit formed of an awareness that a well-constructed index is perhaps the most reliable and efficient means to understand...
Blog
VOICING CONCERNS This post goes back to a day some time ago when I got on a train and went to a ‘meeting’. I know. I’ll give you a minute. It’s been a while. In case you still need help, a ‘meeting’ is a gathering of individuals often in a ‘meeting room’ to talk about...
Blog
You’ll have discussed between you the content, the readership and target dates; you have your contract and are now excited about getting cracking on your book. It’s taken a while to get to this stage after all. But how does it actually work in practice? How does...
