You want to write a book and your brain goes. …PING! ‘I will start with a children’s book’. Enid Blyton did it. Who hasn’t read...

South African authors have drawn a short straw from Amazon for years as we have been unable to link a bank account for royalty payments. ...

I want to first disqualify myself by saying I have not had Covid-19. At least not that I know of. Or not yet. But I have ‘had’ cancer. In...

Kelly Alder's memoir TheFourteenth Wife is a tale of self-discovery and an insider view of a polygamous tribal 'family'. She wrote it...

There is no right or wrong way to write a book, but after working with writers for over 15 years to get them published, I do have some...

Book publishing is an old and complex industry. It is both timeless and on-trend. I have been contacted this week by a few publishers...

Writing your synopsis can be even tougher than writing your entire novel. Or it certainly feels that way. The reason is that it is often...

You may have written (or want to write) a non-fiction book that is based on your professional expertise. Or a memoir (also a non-fiction...

I make no secret of being a romance addict. I love the genre and consider myself a bit of an expert. Of course the best expert is one...

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Readers want to live and breathe your characters in a novel. They want to walk in your shoes in a memoir. But how do you make your...

If you do want to get published, a good idea is to look at what are publishers are actually looking for in their 2021 booklists....

You've experienced or done things that can interest others. These things don't have to be earth shattering -- just incidents that others...

Do you actually have a clear goal? And if you do have a goal, then are you any closer to it? Because I don’t want you to hang about too...

Structure is the architecture of your book. It is the way you are going to organise your information in a way that is entertaining and...

You all know I am a bit fan of lists and rules. So here are some of my own from years of working on books and placing books to be...

You know what you want to say and it feels logical to you, but how do you present it to the reader in a way that is clear, logical and...

The difficult thing about planning a book is working out how to break down the information; often it feels as if there is just this great...

It is closing in on three in the morning and sleep is the furthest thing from my mind. The night is electric as the relentless call of...

Everyone has a book in them - or so they think. But what does it take to turn that killer idea into a publishable manuscript. Writing...