When I spent a few years reading slush pile manuscripts for a small publisher, I started to realise that the manuscripts which failed to engage…
Author, screenwriter, general miscreant
Category: editing
Writing — writing fiction especially — is a strange business. We are, in essence, magicians, convincing people that something that is patently unreal is actually…
At the old site (which was a mess — I really hope this new one is much easier to navigate!) I used to host a…
Many years ago, my day job was in bookselling, where I worked for a major UK High Street brand, whose name started with “W” (that’s…
