
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...


Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell To Earth - Some Initial Thoughts
Being Sheffield-born, and now living just outside that city in the glorious Yorkshire countryside, it’s a little difficult separating out...


The World of Marketing 2
I read almost every day about writers struggling in the marketplace, either to get their books noticed and accepted by publishers, or,...


The World of Marketing
Many writers enter the marketplace trembling. They feel that they are leaving their comfortable world of storytelling - when it is...

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...


A Proofreading Exercise for You
Here’s an exercise for you. Take the following passage (from Jerome K. Jerome’s book, Three Men in a Boat) and see if you can focus only...

What a Lifestyle Consultancy Consists Of
You may have seen me mention something called a Lifestyle Consultancy. Some of you may be wondering exactly what that means. If you’ve...


4 Tips to Help Your Productivity
Here are a few more tips to help you with productivity. These have worked for me - they might not work for everyone, but I suggest that...


Why It Takes So Long To Hear Back From Me Regarding Your Submissions
I’ve written elsewhere about the process that a submission goes through once you send it to me for possible inclusion in a Clarendon...