‘Usage is like oxygen for ideas’ – a message for all perfectionists
Matt Mullenweg knows a thing or two about making something amazing and putting it out in the world. He’s the founding developer of WordPress. You might have heard of it: it’s blogging software that’s...
View ArticleThe hard stuff [published in WQ]
I have a reputation for doing the hard stuff. Nothing to do with drugs: I just seem to be drawn towards tackling stories that involve grief and trauma. That kind of writing takes me through some...
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Introducing my new book, Get Published!
I’d like to introduce you to my new book: Get Published. The idea behind Get Published is this: drawing on my twenty-something (don’t want to say exactly) years in book publishing plus picking the...
View ArticleSneak peek inside Get Published
In the spirit of ‘try before you buy’, I’m going to be posting some snippets from my new ebook, Get Published, here over the next few days. Decision-making isn’t my strong suit, so it was hard to...
View ArticleWhat publishers really want
Today’s extract from Get Published is from around the middle of the book. This answers the question I get asked most often by aspiring authors: what do publishers really want from authors? What...
View ArticleHow to have a career as a writer
This is a third extract from my new ebook, Get Published. This one is towards the end of the book, looking at the big picture of being a published author. Are you winning the war? Kelly Gottuso...
View ArticleProud to be a ghost
Most of my writing work these days is about helping other people to write their stories. Oh all right, I might as well admit it: I do a lot of ghostwriting. I don’t like the term, though, because most...
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Lean In and get over it
We need to get over the idea that one book can do it all – lead a revolution, fix your life, explain the universe. Unless the author is Marx or God (who clearly had a lot of help from co-writers). Lean...
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Why I Couldn’t Afford NOT to Go to a Ghostwriters’ Conference
I am excited that I will soon be speaking at Ghostwriters Unite! (GW), the first book industry conference of its kind. Few people question going to BookExpo America, a writers convention or a general...
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Measuring success in self-publishing
Not a Gold Rush is the name of a 2012 survey about the success of those who publish their own work. One of the authors of the study, Steven Lewis, has written this great article digging into some key...
View ArticleWhat makes a bestseller?
Towards the end of this year’s San Francisco Writers Conference, a first-time author cornered me over coffee. “So what exactly makes a book a bestseller?” He was asking the million-dollar question. It...
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Permission to publish – who needs it?
There is no better time to be writing and publishing books than now. We’ve had the funeral when everyone thought books were dead, and now we’re in publishing paradise, where there are innumerable ways...
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