Guessing the murderer and timeline overwhelm.
Give me a few episodes of a crime drama and I have a ninety, ninety-five percent chance of guessing the perpetrator from then on. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do…
My new parenting normal.
It’s a pity most of the generation who parented through the war have gone now. I could have done with their counsel. What do you do when the pressing danger…
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…
Launch Day
I promised to tell you what we’d been up to and take you over to our launch party. We’ve set up a small independent publishing company – Cadence Publishing Ltd…
You’re invited…
Finally, after almost a year of preparation and behind-the-scenes activity, we are finally ready to reveal our new business. Everyone’s invited to the virtual launch. Come back here next Saturday…
Procrastination tip for writers #1: Platform building.
I usually limber up to write with a game of Freecell. Today, this turned into several. It inspired a Facebook post. I moved to Twitter and sent five tweets in…
Theory: Uncle Quentin in the ‘Famous Five’ was Enid Blyton herself.
For those who haven’t heard of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, it’s what Britain had before Harry Potter. Anyway, I have my own pet theory about Uncle Quentin. I think he’s…
Writing a first draft- the ultimate confidence trick.
Please God, this is the last school holiday in lockdown. The children have watched far too much TV because I’ve had a cold and couldn’t think of many satisfactory ways…
