Hiya writer friends,  Why do publishers keep buying the same thing over and over? For years, I was stuck on this question. And it was only when I spoke to a creative director at a TV studio that it finally started to make sense.  The gatekeepers aren’t buying the same books (or movies) because they […]

Hiya writers, For years, I’ve been advising writers not to rely exclusively on social media to build platforms. I learned this the hard way after my (verified) Twitter account got hacked and Twitter would neither reinstate nor delete it. So it sits, controlled by someone else, with a blue tick to give it legitimacy. (Isn’t […]

Hi writer friends, Ruthless. That’s how I felt the other day after I culled 1,800+ email addresses from this newsletter.  That’s right, deleted them right off.  Not subscribers who read and engage with this newsletter, mind you. Just people who’ve been on this list for several months and don’t read, don’t engage, don’t even open. […]

Hi friends, I’ve been incredibly overwhelmed this week, but in the best possible way. In the last few weeks, I’ve had an article on London’s lost rivers published in Discover magazine, received amazing feedback on another short story on Vocal, finished a big project for SparkLoop, kicked off Write With Me 2022, and pored over pages and pages […]