Today was village fête day: my husband was up at 5.30am to set up his bushcraft corner of the field (I slept on, only to be woken at 6.55am by a surreal phone call from him: ‘Can you bring the antlers from the hooks in the garage with you when you come down please, darling?’). […]
Continue reading“Print sales soar while ebook sales decline” That’s pretty much the headlines in the traditional press at the moment, following the release of a Publishers Association report showing that print book sales increased by 8% year on year, to their highest level since 2012, while consumer ebooks fell 3%. Well, that’s certainly part of the […]
Continue readingThis week in the This Book Means Business Bootcamp we’re looking at how you can use the writing of your book strategically to build your network. In your business you’ve got lots of different types of relationships: there are your existing clients, your groups and your email list, there are partners and suppliers, peers, network […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine – some thoughts from Melissa Romo on how to win at content marketing. https://bookmachine.org/2017/04/26/content-marketing-for-publishers-top-tips-from-a-professional/
Continue readingOn World Book Night, I offered the chance to win one of three life-changing books – all you had to do was leave a comment telling me why you needed the one you’d chosen. Well, how could I choose, really? Six great reasons why six great women needed one of these books, and in the […]
Continue reading‘I’m trying to beat my PB for the London Marathon,’ one of my friends posted on Facebook on Sunday morning. ‘Last year I managed 2 hours 40 minutes… before I got bored and changed channel.’ Well, I missed the live coverage completely – I was larking around on Cogden Beach at the time – so […]
Continue readingToday, 23 April 2017 – Shakespeare’s birthday (and Roy Orbinson’s, apparently), St George’s Day, and this year the London Marathon day too – is also World Book Day. And more importantly, since I’m posting this rather late, World Book Night. All across the country people are pressing a copy of their favourite book into the […]
Continue readingWe’re camping – glamping, really – down at Durdle Door in Dorset this weekend. It’s absolutely stunning. This morning I slipped out of the pod while everyone else was asleep for my run (223 days and counting, since you ask). Yesterday my husband, who knows this area fairly well, advised me on a good running […]
Continue readingMeta-blog: n., a blog about a blog. I’ve just had such an insightful comment on my blog Bad writing, the price of good writing that I thought it merited a blog all of its own. This really is a comforting thought – I don’t know how many times I have been staring at an empty […]
Continue readingDoing some desk research today and came upon this, the website of a fellow member of the IPG, St Mark’s Press. In case you’re not able to see the image for some reason, here’s what the poignant message on the home page says: Please note that St Mark’s Press has permanently ceased trading. Thanks to […]
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