What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Cover Design

So your first book has been accepted for publication: congratulations! In the next few months your face will be all over television and…

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Being Edited

Soon after you sign a contract with a publisher, the editing process begins. A recent poll revealed that being edited is one of…

Last year, I didn’t read anywhere near as many books as I usually do. I was off reading in a way I’ve never…

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

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

The fourth issue on our series for expectant writers is all about literary awards: how to get your book nominated, and how being…

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

Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…

This week myself and fellow author Jane Rawson started a new blog series, in which we dish the dirt on what happens just before,…

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