So for a few weeks I had been replying to emails from clients, writers and friends without response, which I thought was odd. And then I got a call from a client who wondered why I hadn’t emailed him back. I remembered his query and said that I did reply. But we...
Busted! Book publisher Hachette picked up a self-published novel called Shy Girl and released it under their imprint, first in the UK, and next planned to release it in the USA. Later, suspicions arose that the novel may have been written, in whole or in part, by an...
There’s comfort in the crowd. If you identify with the crowd and luxuriate in the familiar, then you’ll never be a good writer. Not ever. If you’re one of those, and hope to be a writer, you’ll bore your readers. Cardinal sin: Don’t be boring. Nobody will buy your...
