A man behaving too well.
This week, I read through my own novel. It’s in a much better state than it was at the beginning of September, but I still wouldn’t let anybody else read…
Category: publishing
Poacher turned gamekeeper: editing other people.
Between trips to Manchester, the tip and the vets, and finishing the article I mentioned last week, I have been making notes on the latest draft of an author’s manuscript.…
The dog ate my daughter’s birthday cake.
If this makes less sense than usual, it is because I’m writing it during my daughter’s birthday party. (Everyone else is off trampolining and I’m minding people’s valuables, so it…
Order, twenty years of something inexplicably working and a new puppy.
The children went back to school this week. Love my children, love spending time with them, but thank goodness for teachers – people who know what kids should be doing…
Big feet, the meaning of September, and publishing progress.
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. If I knew your address, I would send you a bouquet of sharpened pencils.”…
All’s well that ends well.
It wasn’t an easy week: high school children at home during the time I’d set aside to prepare for the holidays; the worry my fifteen-year-old would be self-isolating on his…
Signing in the Waldenbooks.
Too tired to write more than a sentence, but this made me laugh and I hope you enjoy it too:
10 useful things I learnt from our company’s virtual launch.
Practical social media stuff: If there’s enough interest in a set of posts in the morning, people will see it for a lot longer than that. We thought our launch…
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