Two into one Gert Loveday Picture this: the time is 10 pm. A woman in Australia sits at her computer laughing as she writes. She scrolls back, counts her words and hits send. Now it is 7 am in Singapore. A woman in a nightdress opens her email, reads and laughs. She scurries [...]
Lying on my desk is a photograph taken in 1969. I am two years old, overweight and happy, and I am running along the drive that leads to our house. Read more>>
After reading much about using personal experience in fiction, I have come to the conclusion that there are no rules and no standard way of doing it. . . Read more>>
How slippery and timid ideas seem to be, how easily they are chased away by the arrival of the postman and the bundles of bills and the bank statements. Read more>>
Here are some of my writers’ responses to the Linen Press experience. . .What is it like on the other side of the fence? Read more>>
When I sign up a new author, I know I need to take on a willing and competent accomplice in sales and marketing as well. . . Read more>>
Each time Linen Press sells a book through Amazon, it costs the company more than £2! Read more>>
The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya is in the news again, more than four decades after civil war. . . Read more>>
I suppose designing a house is like writing a novel, only more complicated. At first there are the sketchy ideas that are drawn in biro on the backs of old manuscripts. Read more>>
You are a writer with a manuscript ready to send to a publisher. Your hopes are high, your heart beating fast….will this be the one that gets accepted? What are its chances? Will you be a published author? Perhaps I can help by answering some of the questions that you ask when you send me [...]
It is the small, independent publishers that deserve our praise as well as our concern, for in today’s world, they are the ones most in jeopardy. Read more>>
Alison Bacon
It’s sometimes suggested we should buy from publishers like this simply because they are ‘a good thing’ and by doing so we preserve their place in the big bad publishing world, but although this is an attractive proposition, I only buy what I think I will like, regardless of publisher, and in this case was persuaded by Sally Zigmond’s positive reviews Read more>>
Sally Zigmond
When the books arrived, I spent a lot of time contemplating their look and feel. Each book looks totally different in design and concept. The texts are clean and crisp with no errors and bloopers that one often gets with small publishers. Read more>>
I was talking to a well respected literary agent the other day about the characters we invent in our novels. . . Read more>>