The publishing process

The following day I had lunch with a mystified publisher. ‘It doesn’t chime with our experience,’ she said. ‘Cheap e-books are making things...

Writers’ & Artists’ asked you if you had any final questions for me. Well, you did! Below, I’ll try and answer a few as best I can, and...

To have your manuscript picked up by a traditional publishing house and turned into a real-life, sold-in-bookstores, hold-in-your-hands-and-weep...

With your manuscript finished – finished and polished – it’s time to start looking for a literary agent. No, you don’t have to – you could choose...

When I worked at HarperCollins, Stella Paskins, one of the editors in the children’s division, snapped up a great bundle of out-of-print Diana...

People love talking about brands. Did anyone else think that Orange made an unintelligible move, renaming themselves ‘EE’? It means...