What Are Words Worth?
Pete MayDispatches from a midlist writer misfiring in the gig economy
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Narrative arcs and sparks
West Ham celebrate under their narrative arc in 2023
You hear a lot about narrative arcs in writing circles. That’s nothing to do with the Biblical figure of Noah, he had a narrative Ark. When publishers and agents talk of narrative arcs w...
The meaning of success
“Failure is the body of a writer’s life. Success is only ever an attire,” writes Stephen Marche in his entertaining and sometimes dispiriting book On Writing and Failure. Few writers regard themselves as successful, even when they are. Marc...
The art of the publishing deal
“King Charles! Sir Keir Starmer! Penguin Books! Virgin Publishing! Mainstream Publishing! New Holland! Hachette Book Group! Franklin Watts! Endeavour Press! HarperCollins! The Robson Press! Kindle Single! Biteback Publishing! Kindle Direct...
No retreat from writing
My not-so-exclusive writer’s retreat at home
Do writing retreats work? In the Guardian novelist Fiona McAuslan recently wrote a piece on visiting more writing retreats than you could shake a writers' block at. She tried retreats at the Old...
Reading matters
How many books did you read last year? The Guardian recently ran a feature asking this question and the answers were interesting. Chrissie Ryan, the owner of my local bookshop Book Bar had read 145 books. Librarian Olivia Young-Thompson had...
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