A short, late blog today, and a bit of a cheat too (OK, I admit it, I got sidetracked with Hallowe’en Strictly Comer Dancing – so sue me). So it’s a trick, but also a treat (see what I did there?) – here’s a sneaky preview of the bit in my interview with Andy Cope, […]
Continue readingThere’s a trivial domestic job I’ve been meaning to do for literally months now. We have a fold-down bed that we don’t need any more, and I took pictures of it in March (MARCH!!) so I could put it on ebay. What I didn’t do, though, was take the measuremnets. And since March I’ve been […]
Continue readingThis week in the This Book Means Business Bootcamp one of the things we’re focusing on is using the process of writing your book to build your network (both upwards and outwards), and one of the questions that came up was about how to contact people when their email addresses aren’t easily available. It’s worth […]
Continue readingThe story goes that when the ship carrying the last instalment of The Old Curiosity Shop arrived in New York in 1841, it was met by hordes of fans on the dockside, all desperate to know, ‘Is Little Nell dead?’ Charles Dickens was a master of the serialised novel, each instalment ending with a cliffhanger […]
Continue readingThis week in The Extraordinary Business Book Club I spoke to Amy Wilkinson, author of The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraoridinary Entrepreneurs. It’s a fascinating interview, not least because she explains how she went about turning 5 years of research and 10,000 pages of interview transcripts into 6 elegant principles. (And of […]
Continue readingForget GSOH, the book you’re writing is a much more appealing quality when it comes to attracting a potential partner. And by partner here I don’t mean life partner (although, who knows…), I mean the key influencers in your field, those you’d like to get to know better. Your business sits in a complex network […]
Continue readingIf you want your kids to get some exercise today would you a) stick them on a treadmill for 20 minutes or b) take them out for a game of football? Both effective, but b) is way more likely to get an enthusiastic response. If you want your reader to understand an important point, would […]
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Continue readingToday’s blog is a guest post over at BookMachine, reflecting on the new attitude of many authors – they’re no longer waiting for permission from a pubilsher. ‘To be honest, there’s actually quite a few reasons why we wouldn’t have been good people to write the book. I don’t think we had necessarily the credibility […]
Continue readingDisclaimer: I AM A PUBLISHER NOT A LAWYER! If you have any concerns over your own or others’ use of copyright material, get qualified legal advice. But I have spent a long time dealing with copyright issues and authors’ nervousness about using other people’s material. One question that keeps coming up in my bootcamp and […]
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