How Writers Earn Money #1: Advances

Welcome to the first post in my new series How Writers Earn Money, an area shrouded in mystery! I’ll be sharing my own…

How Writers Earn Money

Welcome to the first post in my new series: How Writers Earn Money. When I told a writing friend my idea, he said…

I came across this quote in Doris Lessing’s autobiography. I’m not sure if it’s completely true but I find it interesting to contemplate….

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

Do authors need to be on social media? Publishers say yes, but when it comes to actual data that proves it sells books,…

How to Become a Writer is a series about the many and varied steps (and missteps) people take on the way to writing and publishing a…

My work in progress Monkey See features a super-intelligent Spider Monkey named Chacho. Writing the character of Chacho has made me think a lot…

Image from gregferro.com My posts on author earnings are among the most popular on my blog, showing there is a great deal of…

Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by a maelstrom of feelings. There is frustration that you can’t get an agent…

This is the fifth part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…