How Publishing Really Works

How Publishing Really Works has now moved to its own domain which you can find here. In order to keep everything tidy I've closed comm...

I've received a few emails over the last couple of weeks from readers who were used to following my this blog from within their own Blog...

How Publishing Really Works is moving to its new home! I'm going to start moving things over there tomorrow, so while I do that you sh...

I am a big smug show-off because I have lots of writer-friends. But I almost never ask my friends to discuss their own books on my blog beca...

Today we hear once again from my online writer-friend Marian Perera, who has supported How Publishing Really Works ever since it first appea...

A few weeks ago I corresponded with a frustrated writer who was considering vanity publication. When I advised her against it she replied w...

I am very fond of Marian Perera: she is a knowledgeable and prolific member of Absolute Write, has supported How Publishing Really Works eve...

A book jacket has a lot to achieve. It has to be eye-catching enough to stand out from all the other books on bookshop shelves, but not so d...

The Anatomy of Prose is a rigorous 1950s analysis of prose, seeking to classify different elements of prose as you would classify insects o...

Today Karen Schwaback explains how a combination of her membership of a professional writers' association and a very sensible sister led...

Commercial publishers achieve their high sales levels by ensuring that they have a good stock of books and an efficient distribution system ...

There are several strategies which can be employed in order to win your arguments. One is to state your view then immediately run in circles...

Today we hear how Lesley Cookman got herself into print while not really trying, and realise how working at our craft can bring far bigger ...

Last spring, a writer called Mary Walters suggested that literary agents are killing literature by rejecting work which they consider unmar...

The final semester of my senior year had come, and one thing stood between me and a Bachelor of Arts in English—the dreaded capstone course....