

Tolkien (2019): A Review
In 1974, my then English teacher Mr. Sweeting read out a long list of books from which we were supposed to select one to read over the...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Ten: Creating Magic
If you use a social media group to gather an audience who are broadly interested in the types of story that you write, then make that...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Nine: How It All Works
Right — so we’re engaged in the project of gathering your audience, and we’ve had a look at exactly what kind of process a potential...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Eight: You, The Reader
As I said last time in this series, the most effective method I have found of establishing enough data for a successful book marketing...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Seven: The Two Things You'll Run Into
The idea of this series of articles is to make you the most effective marketer of your own work that it’s possible to be. Naturally, it...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Six: The Relationship Between Writer and Reader
What attracts your attention? Human attention is drawn to things that a) seem out of sequence b) contain gaps or mysteries or missing...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Five: Waking Up Your Readers
To recap slightly: modern marketing tells you to stand in a packed room and toss out your message like tennis balls into the crowd in the...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Four: The Undiscovered Country
We’re looking at marketing as nothing more (and nothing less) than communication . The basic idea is that, when you write a story, you’re...



