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The Truth About Literary Agents

8th June

If you spend any time in the company of writers, sooner or later somebody will tell you that you absolutely, positively need a literary agent. If you haven’t yet…don’t worry, you will. The implication is usually clear: no agen ...

How To Write A Best Seller

1st June

Every writer has wondered it. Don’t pretend otherwise. What if this one is the one? Not just a respectable little book that sells a few thousand copies, gets a nice review in a Sunday supplement and earns enough for a celebrat ...

Bland FM-Logarithms Are Destroying British Radio

25th May

There was a time when local radio actually meant something. It sounded like the place it served. Presenters knew the roads, the football clubs, the local scandals, the weather patterns and the names of villages outsiders would ...

Why A Good Book Will Always Beat Eurovision

18th May

There comes a point, usually somewhere between the third shrieking key change, a dancer dressed as a metallic woodland creature, and a voting sequence that appears to take longer than some constitutional reforms, when one begins ...

Has LinkedIn Lost Its Mojo?

11th May

Once upon a time, LinkedIn knew exactly what it was. A professional networking platform. Business-focused. Career-minded. A place to connect, recruit, share expertise, and perhaps quietly promote your latest promotion while pre ...

Books 1 Kindle 0. Rejoice!

4th May

For a while, we were told the book was finished. Not the story. Not the words. The book itself. Replaced, we were assured, by the glow of a screen. By the swipe, the scroll, the convenience of carrying a thousand titles in you ...

Everyone Is Writing A Book These Days....

27th April

“I’m writing a book.” I hear that sentence a lot. At networking events. Over coffee. In pubs. At family gatherings. Sometimes from complete strangers who have somehow discovered what I do for a living and immediately decid ...

Why AI Is Not 'The Enemy Within'

20th April

There is a curious accusation doing the rounds at the moment, one that arrives quickly and with a certain confidence. ‘That’s been written by AI’. It is often said as a dismissal, a quiet undermining, sometimes even a veiled i ...

Has Social Media Stopped Being Social?

13th April

I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, nothing unusual in that, just a quiet five minutes trying to forget a certain football match and letting the world drift past. And it struck me,quite suddenly,that I hadn’t actually se ...

When Your Daily Newspaper Meant Something

6th April

There was a time—not all that long ago—when a newspaper arriving on the doormat felt like something of consequence. It carried weight, both literal and intellectual. Ink on fingers was a small price to pay for being properly inf ...