

Your Guide to Services: Part 14 A Unique Service
Here’s something unique to Clarendon House, developed over several years of experience and experiment in the field of marketing books:...


Tolstoy and Politics
For years I have been fascinated by Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace, a fascination prompted by the BBC’s grand, multi-episode version...


More About Author Platforms (and I'm not talking about shoes...)
Earlier on this blog I’ve been writing about author platforms — what they are, how to put one together and whether or not you actually...


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


Fictivity: Revisiting Character Archetypes
I’m not sure that many writers understand the real power of the Seven Character Archetypes. Perhaps they are thinking of them as one of...


The Lamp and the Mirror
Writers usually start out as lamps. They have ideas, they have images, they have emotions, and they want to shine these things out into...


Your Guide to Services: Part 13 The Long Game
Do you need a platform to get published? No, when all is said and done, you don't need one. A platform will help you become successful,...


Your Guide to Services: Part 12 Where to Put Your Platform
Jonny has calculated that he needs to sell one million copies of his book about a school boy with superpowers in order to make his target...


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

