The hardest books in the world to find
When David and I set up Godstow Press, we knew quite a lot about publishing and almost nothing about selling. Seven years later the situation has barely changed except that…
Looking a gift horse in the backside
Every year I volunteer to help out at an art show for four days; every year I think I'm losing four days' writing time. One of my more pernicious self-deceptions.…
The last edit
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Freudian slip
It was hot, I was tired. When she asked me what kind of books I write, I said 'hysterical novels'. Perhaps I should be thinking of changing genre?
Theme
If plot is the body of a novel, then the theme is its soul. It is the subtle core, the message which the author wishes to convey. It is probably…