Evidently it is essential these days to be ?media savvy? to find success as a writer. Equally, we are told, publishing companies and agents consider writers to be as much a product as their books and ?promotability? is far more crucial than the quality of their prose. So youth, beauty or at least some kind of unique ?life story? are the key ingredients to being picked out from the crowd and thrust into the literary limelight. As one Times article declared recently, to make money as a writer it is vital these days to be young, be zeitgeisty, sell the...
0107/2018November 8, 2020
HOW TO MAKE BOOKS PAY!
An article in the Arts Times 2 section by James Marriott on Friday 29th June makes for thought-provoking reading ? and the title alone is alarming for a lot of us writers who are never going to be discovered as a young fresh voice.? Evidently, it claims, the only way to make books pay is to Be Young, Be Zeitgeisty, sell the rights. Well, that means most of us might as well abandon the keyboard, the early morning and late night hammering away at it as well as the dreams of ever abandoning the day job instantly.? Even if we...
2006/2018November 8, 2020
Summer Discount Offer
SUMMER DISCOUNT OFFER ? COUNTING THE WAYS is selling at the reduced price of ?7.99 for the summer months. An ideal read for your summer holiday! (Enter code ?SUMMER?)
2006/2018November 8, 2020
Counting the Ways
Counting the Ways, my second novel, is available to borrow from Winchester Discovery Centre.
1906/2018November 8, 2020
1606/2018November 8, 2020
Winchester Writers’ Festival
Self Published Authors Table – all set up and anticipating two brilliant days!