Funky Gorilla hopefully here we come.
By the time this goes out, my almost-sixteen-year-old should have finished taking his GCSEs. Thirteen of them. His choice. I’m only pushy when I remember and in this case, I…
Category: self-editing
Deep work and the girl
I have about 12 hours per week for deep work. For me, this includes writing, editing, and email pitching/ asking people for something. I can do more for a big…
Sore throat, half term, and looking for a sensitivity reader.
I think of myself as quite a good wife, but every so often, I realise I could be more sympathetic. Like now, when I have finally caught one of my…
Pathological editing syndrome.
07.04 I spent six or seven hours this week writing a single email. It went to more than one person, but it was the same one. Did I need to…
From here to publication: creating an excellent product.
So, Cadence is in business. Pre-orders have started coming in for the e-book of SOLD. And now we’re about to send Sue’s book to 3 teenage beta readers. We want…
My novel undergoes its own dramatic transformation.
Rachel and I have three people’s novels to edit at the moment. There are contracts to negotiate, a tax return due, and this week I had a podcast to prepare…
5 good things
Son probably doesn’t have a brain tumour, although he’s being sent for an MRI scan to check. (The doctor was most concerned when I said he’s been a lot nicer…
Wind days, hospital marketing, and a novelist’s ode to post-it notes.
We have ‘snow days’ in Britain, but for the first time, the children are off school because of the wind. Unfortunately for them, COVID means teachers have wised up about…
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