Publishing Peptalk, because we're all in this together
Abie LongstaffPublishing Peptalk is for authors who are tearing their hair out. It's a place to share our frustrations about the publication process.
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Switching Off
I tried to have a holiday this week. I’m not very good at holidays. I find it really hard to switch off.
It’s partly because my to-do list is never finished. Even when I think a book is done, there is often a last-minute email saying ‘befo...
Is publishing way too obsessed with the hook?
I feel like something has got lost somewhere in the process of making books.
Publishing seems more obsessed than ever with ‘the hook’ and I see so much advice online about it. It might just be me(??) but I’m not sure we all have the same d...
The Sliding Doors Moments of Publishing
Sometimes I feel like there’s a moment in my career that could go either way.
A new book goes out on submission and I’m pacing the room, thinking:
Will someone love it?
Will everyone hate it?
As if there are only two possible futures. I...
You have time
At almost every stage of my writing life, I have the same momentary panic that I’m running out of time. Sometimes it’s fuelled by excitement, sometimes by fear. Mostly it’s about income. But underneath it all is the feeling that if I don’t...
The Publishing Dopamine Trap
In my old job, I knew exactly what my financial reward would be every month: a salary and a pension. I knew I’d miss that security when I decided to write full time, but there was something else that, it turns out, I miss more:
Daily dopam...
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Best-selling children's author. Chair of The Children's Writers and Illustrators Group at The Society of Authors. Former lawyer. (posts in a personal capacity)
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