I receive several emails every day asking me for advice and I always do what I can to help. But a few months ago it occurred to me that if I were to respond to these emails in a more public way, more people could weigh in on the conversation–and more people might benefit from…
Category Archives: getting published
Sally Zigmond And The Kindle Rush
My best friend Sally Zigmond has written a very useful post about the rush to self-publish to the Kindle. As is ever the case with Sally’z articles, this one is well worth a read.
Celebrity Culture Or Cashing In?
Last month’s announcement that Penguin had signed Pippa Middleton to write a party-planning book for an advance reported to be close to £500,000 caused a bit of a stir in the writing-related corner of the internet. For a couple of days Twitter was clogged with editors, agents and writers despairing about the deal and even…
What Publishers Want
I read this on Twitter a couple of days ago and I really like it. It’s so simple, and yet it answers so many questions. Isn’t that fabulous? Now all we have to do is write those books.
How Dreams Come True
Catherine Ryan Howard has written an excellent post in which she discusses how our chances of getting a publishing deal are not equal: Right now, the self-publishing evangelists would have you believe that it’s easier to get struck by lightning in the jaws of a shark while holding a winning lottery ticket than it is…