

6 Steps Towards the Biggest and Best Marketing Campaign You’ll Ever Put Together
Many writers do not consider themselves to be salespeople and have considerable back-off on the areas of marketing and selling their...

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


The Words of James Joyce
James Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet who contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is best...


A Bit of History
Wandering into the site of Fountains Abbey through a lesser-used entrance, one could be forgiven for thinking that Fountains Hall, the...


Emily Brontë: A Quick Glimpse
I live quite close to Haworth, the famous home village of the Brontë family. The way the wind howls in straight off the moors to strike...


Taking Advantage of the Golden Age of Independent Publishing
I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth writing about it again, especially as I am even more sure of it now, having viewed many...

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


The Wisdom of Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400) is known as the Father of English literature and is widely considered the greatest English poet of the...


The Purpose of Editing
It is not the purpose of editing to reconstruct the writer’s story. The purpose of editing is to delete from the existing work those...