Archive for the BOOKS Category
Finding God on the web
Some days it’s really hard to see traces of the divine in the everyday. Days when your toddler has a vomiting bug and hasn’t learned to lean over the bucket yet. When you discover head lice, not only in your children’s hair but in your own too. Or when the post arrives and you find [...]
A guppy story
I have just returned from the aquarium shop, buying a little tank for the girls for Christmas. In due course, the little tank will be aglitter with jewel-like guppies, flashing their bright tails around. For now, it’s just a glass box with a bag of gravel, a filter, a cylinder of fish food and a [...]
It’s all about parenting: new year, new start
New year, new blog: I’ve decided to mark the new year by revamping my blog. I’ll still be talking about publishing and writing, but that will appear on the Red Hill Publishing website. If you stop by my website, you’ll find me blogging about parenting, children, soul and spirit. It all connects with my new [...]
‘Usage is like oxygen for ideas’ – a message for all perfectionists
Matt Mullenweg knows a thing or two about making something amazing and putting it out in the world. He’s the founding developer of WordPress. You might have heard of it: it’s blogging software that’s used by, oh, 27 million people or so (including me – thanks, guys!). Matt writes a pretty tidy blog himself, and [...]
Writers: you need to get the knowledge
Writers who understand the book business are better able to make their way through it. Simple as that.
Attention all writers: back to basics
Literary agent Rachelle Gardner does a dynamite job in her blog of educating writers about the real world of publishing. In today’s blog post, she touches on something that I thought was very, very obvious – until yesterday.
The immutable law of publishing
If there’s one thing you need to know about publishing, it’s this: there is no such thing as a perfect book.
