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AI. Time to CD (Calm Down)
26th January
Let’s address the elephant in the room. Actually, no-let’s deflate it. AI. Two letters that seem to send a small shiver down the spine of otherwise perfectly sensible people. I hear the concerns all the time. ‘It’s going to ...
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Have You Been Ghosted?
19th January
There’s a curious habit that many freelancers will recognise, and one that never quite stops puzzling me. Someone gets in touch. They outline a project, often a deeply personal one. A book idea. A life story. A history. A ...
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It's 2026 & People Are STILL Banning Books?
12th January
Across the United States, a dramatic surge in book bans has become more frequent, more coordinated, and more systematic than at any time in living memory. Reports indicate that in the 2024/25 school year alone, there were thous ...
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A New Year. A Fresh Start & Why A Blog Matters...
5th January
January always arrives with a particular kind of optimism. Desks are cleared. Diaries are reset. There’s a collective sense that this is the moment to do things properly, or at least better than last year. In business, it’s the ...
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From 'How are you feeling?'to 'u ok?'
29th December 2025
The English language has always been a magpie. It pinches, borrows, sheds, reshapes. But nothing in its long, unruly life has altered it quite as swiftly as texting. In barely three decades, we’ve moved from carefully composed ...
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The Stories That Don't Make The Christmas Card
22nd December 2025
Christmas, we’re told, is about togetherness. About full tables, laughter, shared jokes that resurface every year like old friends. It’s about smiles for the camera, neatly framed and ready to be posted, shared, or tucked insi ...
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This Lonely Writing Life
15th December 2025
Writing has always been a solitary business. That part comes with the territory. You sit down, usually alone, often in silence, and try to make something honest out of nothing. You talk to people who don’t exist yet. You argu ...
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Will A Good Book 'Always Find A Home?'
8th December 2025
There’s a myth that drifts around the publishing world like a low morning mist in the autumn. Familiar, comfortable, even reliable. In the way you don’t even look out for it anymore. It’s just…there. ‘If a book is good enough ...
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A Book Launch Review
1st December 2025
I left the official launch of It’s Not About You: The Psychology of Leadership feeling exactly as I believe a publication event should make you feel: energised, affirmed, and quietly proud to have been part of something meaningf ...
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The Ghost Of Book Launches Present
24th November 2025
There’s a book launch taking place later this week… A proper one, too-nice venue, proper lighting, glasses being polished in anticipation, and, if we’re lucky, at least one slightly bewildered microphone. Somewhere in England, ...
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