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The Hidden Cost of Typhoon Haiyan
The disaster that has engulfed the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan is catastrophic enough but there are added, long term dangers that are not captured by the television cameras recording the devastation. For the past three years I have been researching and...
How To Score A Book Deal By Maxing Out Your Credit Cards…
This is the talk I'm delivering tonight on how I scored my first multi-book deal by maxing out my credit cards. Oh and writing the damn thing...
My Favourite Book Festival
Book festivals come in all shapes, sizes and flavours but my favourite has to be the Chiswick Book Festival and it's not just because it takes place right on my own doorstep. Now in its second year, the cosy, relaxed feel of the festival belies its astonishing...
Pure Poetry
The following piece was written by my 8 year old daughter as a school assignment with the brief to understand and describe a familiar setting. While I'm not too sure that this is our everyday experience, the beauty of what she wrote completely blew me away. And not...
Adapt Or Die
There's a thought-provoking piece over at the Bookseller blogs by Anthony Horowitz on the chill winds that are blowing through the worlds of publishing and television drama. As one traditionally feeds the other, this is what we might term a double dip for the...
Agent Evolution
An interesting debate over at Digital Book World with Jason Allen Ashlock, the founder of the Movable Type Literary Group, arguing that agents need to evolve to meet the needs of today's publishing market. I couldn't agree more and have waded in with my two cents'...