publishing

  • Author beware – the dangers of flattery

    Like many authors, I receive all sorts of emails on a daily basis, most of them selling services such as promotion of my books, perfectly genuine but basically sales pitches. Others are obviously scams, some patently obvious as they demand money from the outset, but some are  more subtle. I can usually spot them but…

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  • Time to let your novel begin its great adventure

    Are you an aspiring writer summoning up the courage to finally send off your beloved manuscript to a publisher or agent but suddenly assailed by crippling doubts? In fact, the envelope bearing the print-out has been sitting on the kitchen table for a week or your finger is continuing to hover, paralysed, over the keyboard’s…

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