Film and TV Breaking Bad is over people. It’s finished. No more. It is time to move on (get a therapist if you need one, there’s no shame in it). The new television season kicked off with a bang. My ...
Read More »A changing industry and the tantrums
The publishing industry has been in chaos for the past few years. The digital world brought with it too many questions, and no one was willing to openly embrace the new opportunities that came with rapidly changing technology. Instead of ...
Read More »Short attention spans in the digital age
When starting out on setting up this website, a lot of people encouraged me to write a lot of ‘listicles’. Articles that consist of lists. Why? Well, modern readers have short attention spans. They don’t like to actually have to ...
Read More »Lessons to be learned from Robert Galbraith
If you haven’t already heard the true identity of The Cuckoo’s Calling’s author then you must either live under a rock or have been in a coma. The story is everywhere. One problem I have found from all these stories ...
Read More »5 things you can learn from creative writing courses
‘Can you teach creative writing?’ is an age-old question. It could also be phrased as ‘Can you learn creative writing?’ This is something that writers often ask, and it is debated regularly in the press and writing forums. So if ...
Read More »The False Social Network
Part of being a successful creative person in today’s world is about developing your social network and online presence. Publishers encourage their authors to have blogs, twitter accounts, facebook pages, etc, and to actively use them. Marketing an author’s work ...
Read More »Comics and self-publishing: A new world of possibilities
Traditional comics publishing and POD Getting your comic book or graphic novel published can be difficult. Like any sphere of the publishing industry, there are a lot of hoops to jump. Most of the big comic publishers don’t take unsolicited ...
Read More »Digital self-publishing tips
Self-publishing has opened up the book publishing world. Suddenly, it seems possible for any of us to get our novels out there. Whether or not this is a good thing is yet to be seen, and a topic I’ll undoubtedly ...
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