Traditional publishing

Self-publishing my novels has given me confidence back in my own writing. I've gone from thinking no one would want to read the type of story I write - feel-good and uplifting, but involving serious issues - to finally starting work on a new novel, after months of not writing.  Read more

Both traditionally and self-published authors need to be "engaged", traditional publishers have to be open to new voices from different backgrounds, tricky rights issues need to be tackled, but ultimately traditional and indie author communities need to come together.
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Over the course of the last few years, it has come to feel that we bookish types are stuck in our very own world war one re-enactment, in trench warfare over where the money lines are drawn.  Read more

I distinctly remember my first day working at a small independent publishing house. I felt two equally powerful emotions: love for a literary world I was engaged in, and pathos that I had entered into the twilight of an old era, ignorantly and stubbornly disconnected from the realities of a changing world.  Read more

It starts with a familiar name, but then takes a turn.

Jay Gatsby actually faked his death, and is now reunited with Daisy. "Scandal's" Olivia Pope is somehow working on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. And a member of the boy band One Direction is falling in love on a college campus - making roughly 250 million online readers swoon.  Read more