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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...