CLARENDON HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

We’ve been looking at the idea of you having a shop which sold your fiction. Not a bookshop featuring books by other authors — just your...

You probably have a favourite brand of coffee shop. It’s the one that you like to come across while shopping in a mall or on the high...

We’ve been talking about looking at what you’re doing as a writer as though you were a business. The usual immediate reaction to that is...

Writing and reading are processes. That might sound obvious to you, but 17 years as a teacher taught me that it isn’t obvious to many....

This is the default model of ‘being a writer’: You do something you don’t really like to make enough money to give you time to write;...

After several years of running the Inner Circle Writers’ Group and having published millions of words from over 300 new and established...

With the advent of the internet and more sophisticated desktop publishing tools and distribution methods, a gap opened up in the...

When you decide to make a career as an author, whether you realise it or not, you have said ‘I am setting up a brand’. So much hype and...