Author events – how to earn a living
My first piece of advice would be: don’t have a pandemic. As well as everything else the pandemic did, for children’s authors who relied on
Advice for writers
For many years, I gave free and paid advice about the whole business of writing. I have also written books for writers, including the ebooks, Dear Agent and Write a Great Synopsis. Below, are some of my blogposts aimed at writers, published and unpublished.
This one’s for creatives
I was recently commissioned by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) to write a piece for authors struggling to work through this time of
Guidelines for writing about suicide or self-harm
I like to think that no writer would want their words to cause significant harm. (Let’s conveniently assume the non-existence of evil people, for the
Writers read
As some of you know, I used to spend a lot of time giving advice about how to get published and how to stay published
Working with your publisher (to promote your book)
This is for traditionally published authors particularly of children’s and teenage books, though much will also apply to adult authors. Understand the score Publishers and
Why I (usually) will not lower my fees
This week, I’ve had NINE TEN invitations to speak at schools or conferences, either to staff, parents or teenagers. Most invitations come with the understanding from
How much should writers charge for events?
I was asked this the other day, after (in another article no longer online) I’d mentioned that as professionals we need to be paid, just as