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One of the deepest lessons of being a successful writer is to do with where to place focus. I don’t mean the focus that the writer puts...

A writer recently asked me this question as part of my coaching programme: I sent a promotion to a cold list offering a free e-copy of my...

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

Most writers become writers for three main reasons, not necessarily in this order. The first reason is income. They hope that writing can...

When you think about genres like science fiction, fantasy or horror, what are the first names that come to mind? Asimov? Tolkien? King?...

I’m going to show you here an excerpt from the beginning of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece of a short story, 'The Signalman'. Then I’m...

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

Being Sheffield-born, and now living just outside that city in the glorious Yorkshire countryside, it’s a little difficult separating out...

I read almost every day about writers struggling in the marketplace, either to get their books noticed and accepted by publishers, or,...