I do love the ‘Best Bits’ episodes of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcasts (Episode 60 went live yesterday). They take a long time to put together, but I don’t resent a moment of it: I get the chance to take a wide-angle view over the last 9 episodes, finding the parallels, the points of […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog – and has set off quite a debate in The Extraordinary Business Book Club: do YOU write to music, and if so, what kind? https://birdsontheblog.co.uk/planning-your-writing-playlist/ ‘…creating your writing playlist is both an art and a science, and ultimately, since so much depends on the associations and […]
Continue readingYesterday I had a nice surprise: an endorsement out of the blue from Esther Nagle, who participated in the 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge in January: I participated in Alison’s Business Book Proposal Challenge in January 2017 and emerged with a fantastic book proposal that I had considerably enjoyed writing. Alison is tremendously knowledgable about […]
Continue readingYou have to feel a little bit sorry for Ivanka Trump. She’s brought out a book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the rules for success. So far so good: there aren’t enough business books by women. Even if I did have a stab of unease at the title. (Here’s a useful rule of thumb: whenever a […]
Continue readingIt’s time for another writing day – I met with my editor this afternoon and promised her Section 3 by 19 May. Which means I have to finish it. And since life doesn’t currently permit me the luxury of a beach hut in Antigua (which would be my preferred approach), I’m taking the second-best option: […]
Continue readingThe first podcast I ever listened to was Joanna Penn’s The Creative Penn. It’s about writing, publishing, innovation, and business development. What’s not to like? It’s still the one I load up first on Stitcher before I go for a long run. And it was the one that most formed my thoughts about how to […]
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 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 readingThe recent developments in e-ink are fascinating, particularly for writers and readers: hot on the heels of the Freewrite comes the Onyx Boox, an e-ink Android laptop/tablet/typewriter (just when you thought the genres had settled down, here we go again…). There’s a video and more info here: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/onyx-boox-typewriter-18-04-2017/. Being able to write wherever you like, […]
Continue readingHere, curated by the wonderful folk over at Brain Pickings, is a great collection of great writers’ advice on writing: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/. Many of these are aimed at novelists, those hewing out great literary works, but there’s plenty here for people just trying to put one word after another to get their message across too. The first […]
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