My online bootcamp for graduates of the proposal challenge begins tomorrow, and you can almost taste the anxiety and excitement in the group. Suddenly it’s just got real: having crystallised their vision for their book in the proposal, now it’s time to step up and start writing. One of the comments that participants in […]
Continue readingOne of the first books I read on my entrepreneurial journey was Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestly. I remember being slightly amused by the idea, even while taking in all the great advice. When you’re starting out, desperate for clients, and unknown by your target market (and THAT was a nasty shock: my huge network of […]
Continue readingCompetition is a wonderful motivator, but it truly sucks when you announce the winner and you KNOW that while one person is dancing around the room (or, as happened today, spilling soup down her front) 22 others are gritting their teeth and silently hating you, just a little. It was SUCH a hard job, choosing […]
Continue readingI had a board meeting in London this afternoon, and lots of work to do (still ploughing through proposal reviews following the 10-day proposal challenge). It takes a good three hours of travelling time there and back to London, and it was COLD out there. I was sorely tempted to dial in rather than appearing […]
Continue readingVery proud of Practical Inspiration Publishing author Glenda Shawley who has an article in Female First today: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/glenda-shawley-founded-after-forty-1029140.html She points out that there are many women who start their successful business after the age of 40, including fashion designer Vera Wang! Read it and be inspired…
Continue readingI spent 13 years working with Macmillan Publishers on an industrial estate in Basingstoke. It was something of a standing joke within the company – a brutalist office block with a portakabin training room, opposite a Sainsburys depot, just up the road from the Fyffes banana factory. And people think publishing is glamorous. Why Basingstoke? […]
Continue readingAs I write this there’s just over 4 hours to go until the deadline for those in the 10-day business book proposal challenge to submit their finished proposals if they want them to be considered for the prize: a pubishing deal with Practical Inspiration Publishing. So far I’ve had 16 proposals submitted, I suspect we’ll […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/drawing-book-idea/.
Continue readingI am hiding in the Cotswolds. I have run away from home. After two years of trying, I’ve discovered that it is next to impossible for me to write my own book in my own house, surrounded by client work, family, a dishwasher that needs unloading, and a million other potential distractions. So far I’ve […]
Continue readingOne of the things I learned to do last year was to ask for endorsements. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? In fact, it IS very simple. But it’s also very hard if you’re terribly, terribly British. My instinct when someone says something nice about me is to laugh nervously, flap a hand as though fanning […]
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