It’s been a tough week. By midnight on Monday 15 proposals had landed on my virtual doormat from the 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge participants. That’s not as many as some previous challenges, so it should have been easier to choose a winner, right? Wrong. I managed to narrow it down to a shortlist of […]
Continue readingI met a great publishing buddy for coffee today in Winchester. She’s just left her job to go freelance, hence the swanning around Winchester in the sun on a Wednesday. Winchester’s lovely at any time, but today, basking in spring sunshine, it was hard to imagine a nicer place to be. We’d last met at London […]
Continue readingThis is/was Delivery Day, twice over. 1. I delivered the first section of my own book to the editor today. (I now have a cover design too, which I absolutely love.) 2. The completed proposals are trickling in from those who’ve completed the 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge. The deadline is midnight, there are 11 […]
Continue readingAfter I posted yesterday’s blog singing the praises of connection and collaboration, I realised the topical irony: here we are, about to sever ties with Europe and ‘make Britain great again/take back control of our borders/secure our freedom’ – there are a variety of ways of expressing the general idea of plucky little Britain standing […]
Continue readingThe great promise of e-ink is the way it can hook up our physical and digital worlds so effectively. I’ve been complaining at the universe in general for several years now that my digital calendar in all its multifaceted ever-changing compexity bears only a passing resemblance to the calender hung up on our living room […]
Continue readingAn exchange in the 10-day business book proposal challenge that made me laugh out loud today (we’re working on author biography): ‘I’m loving how this challenge is making me do stuff I would’ve spent AGES procrastinating over.’ ‘Yeah, it’s great isn’t it? It’s really given me the kick up the a**e I needed to lay […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog, and was written standing up because I can’t get up again if I sit down. If you have any great tips for broken hip flexors, please send them over… Read more…
Continue readingTwo parents’ evenings back to back tonight, immediately after the last day of London Book Fair: I don’t know what I did wrong in a previous life, but it must have been pretty bad. I used to understand primary school gradings – as a school governor, I had to master rainbow trackers and sub-level progression […]
Continue readingI was asked this week to name the systems and workflow tools I use to run my business, and it was a useful audit. There are a LOT. Most of my systems are cloud-based, and allow for remote collaboration and access on the hoof. Publishing/Operations Bibliocloud (bit specialist this one – bibliographic system, with details […]
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