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The Reality Of The 'Christmas Book' Market
17th November 2025
I touched on this subject in a recent blog, when I wrote about clients who ask me in October or November if they can still get their book out in time for Christmas, outlining why it isn’t a good idea, why rushing something as pe ...
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Literary Agents-Yes Or No?
10th November 2025
For decades, the phrase ‘I just need to find an agent’ has echoed through writing circles. It’s become almost a rite of passage, the golden ticket to publishing success. The idea that, until an agent plucks you from obscurity, ...
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Publishing Your Book In Time For Christmas?
3rd November 2025
At this time of year, many of the writers I work with—and I’m usually juggling between three and six book projects at various stages of progress—ask the same question: ‘Do you think we can publish in time for Christmas?’ It’s ...
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The Myth Of The 'Perfect' Writer
27th October 2025
Somewhere, out there in the collective imagination, there’s said to be a creature known as the perfect writer.They wake early, of course. They glide downstairs to their desk (spotless, naturally) and open their laptop to a symp ...
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Why Shakespeare Would Have Written For EastEnders
20th October 2025
Last week, I wrote about the idea that some grammar rules are made to be broken- and how the real artistry of language lies not in rigid obedience to convention, but in knowing when to bend the rules to make something sound righ ...
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Why Captain Kirk Was Right...
13th October 2025
There’s a special kind of British pride in obeying rules. We love queues, we love manners, we love saying sorry when someone stands on our foot… …and we simply live for correcting other people’s grammar-and usually with more z ...
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The Things You Don't See
6th October 2025
Most people think writing is about putting words on a page. Sit down. Type. Job done. But the truth? The finished piece is only the tip of the iceberg. What you don’t see is everything beneath the surface: the false starts, ...
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Don't Mind The Gap
29th September 2025
We don’t talk enough about white space. Not the white space of empty rooms or clean canvases. But the white space on the page. The gaps. The pauses. The room to breathe. You may have noticed this in these blogs. It’s becom ...
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We (Shouldn't) Have To Talk About Content
22nd September 2025
Once upon a time, writers wrote books, artists created art, and broadcasters broadcast. Simple. Clear. Noble, even. Now? We all just ‘produce content’. Yes, congratulations are in order-whether you’ve just spent a decade sl ...
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Why I Believe In The Long Read
15th September 2025
We now live in a world where ‘BREAKING NEWS!’ flashes across screens every few minutes, where punchy one-liners and bite-sized ‘content’ are served up to be skimmed and scrolled past before the kettle’s boiled. I don’t deny the ...
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