After typing ‘The End’ in your manuscript, what should be your next step? How can you ensure that your carefully crafted words reach as many readers as possible? Until about 15 years ago, there was essentially only one viable path to the market: find an...
The Challenge The gap between the idea. the story, or the events of a life, and the screen or written page is huge. Ask any writer about the daily challenge of getting the words out of their head and into a space that can be read by others, and they’ll talk ...
Put simply, ghostwriters enable authors to tell their stories. We can help an author at just about any stage of the writing process – from helping to shape and develop an idea or a plot, to writing the entire manuscript according to the author’s brief. A Bit of...
‘I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS IS ANY GOOD’ After months, years of peering anxiously at the keyboard, screen and notebook, just about every author hears that lingering (and sometimes debilitating) voice that whispers, “Is it any good?” “Will...
Has any book ever before so dominated the news agenda on both sides of the Atlantic (and beyond) for what feels like months and months? In the lead up to publication of Spare on 6th January, the Mail, Express and others frothed daily over the possible story lines,...
‘Could you do a bit of research into corporate psychopaths?’ a client recently asked me. ‘With pleasure.’ I said, rubbing my hands with delighted anticipation. The book we’re working on is a sordid tale of family fraud involving millions of dollars and a particularly...
I’ve been working with an adventurer for the past few months. The book, when it comes out, will be an account of his many expeditions every one of which has provoked observations about the nature of life-changing moments and how to handle them. The author is...
If you’re considering writing a book, you might be asking yourself how do I even start? If you look around for advice, there are about as many ways as there are authors. For fiction, broadly, the advice can be parcelled into three or four approaches. Some writers...
I don’t know about you, but when I pick a non-fiction title in a bookshop, I flick straight to the back in search of the index. It’s an old habit formed of an awareness that a well-constructed index is perhaps the most reliable and efficient means to understand...
VOICING CONCERNS This post goes back to a day some time ago when I got on a train and went to a ‘meeting’. I know. I’ll give you a minute. It’s been a while. In case you still need help, a ‘meeting’ is a gathering of individuals often in a ‘meeting room’ to talk about...
