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Are You A 'People Person'?

16th September

Anyone who has been interviewed for a job or, come to that, been part of a company’s HR team will be familiar with the term ‘people person’. Its bandied about so much in the corporate world these days, I’ve started to think the ...

It's All In The Mind

9th September

Do you like watching Countdown on TV? Here’s a word that they won’t have come across-but only because it has too many letters for the show. But bear with me on this one. It’s got eight consonants and six vowels. I’ve already pi ...

Why Your Business Needs A Regular Blog

2nd September

If you don’t have a regular blog on your website then you are missing out. Not least on generating new leads and customers and, from that, potential sales. That’s made you sit up and take notice, hasn’t it? Let’s assume the b ...

Two New Books For 2025

26th August

I am not a Historian. I wish I was. And I most fervently, feverishly even wish that, rather than wasting time with Sociology for three years at University, a discipline with plenty of theory on offer but absolutely no beauty wh ...

Working For Free...

19th August

Do you work for free? I’m serious. Regardless of what your profession is, or your level of expertise at same, do you go out to work every day in exchange for nothing more than the grateful thanks of your employer? No salary. N ...

Did Boris Johnson Really Write That?

12th August

Do you like reading the autobiographies of well known people? Of course you do. It’s a type of voyeurism after all, taking a peep, so to speak, into the hither-to private world of someone famous, the appeal is timeless. After ...

Why I'm Not Concerned About AI

5th August

So, consider the digital elephant in the room. AI. Everyone has heard about it. Everyone is talking about it. Some people love it. Others hate it. But everyone has an opinion about it. I’ve heard, time and time again, tha ...

The Greatest Investment Of All...

29th July

Forget money, cars, fine wines and property. None of them are, to use a sporting analogy, in the same league as investing in yourself. Let’s take things a step further and use sport as an example as how this can be done, about ...

To Publish Or Self Publish (2 of 2)

22nd July

You will recall that my last blog briefly explored the complicated path that all writers have to tread when it comes to having their work published in what most people would call the ‘traditional’ process (ie) approaching a publ ...

To Publish Or Self Publish? (1 of 2)

15th July

One of the first questions I am always asked by a new client when we have our first meeting to discuss their book is whether they should look to secure a deal from a traditional publisher to publish and market their book or whet ...