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Recent Letters
I wrote recently about my slow, but intentional, break-up with Instagram. I hope you had a bit of a laugh reading my Letter. I know that it resonated with some because I was delighted to hear about...
I’ve been writing a book. It’s a book of letters addressed to new book coaches on the ups and downs of transitioning from a corporate career to solopreneurship. It’s about coaching...
I was honoured to be asked this month to write a guest post by Jennie Nash (The Art & Business of Book Coaching). The upshot is: if you are having trouble getting into the flow of writing your...
If you ever wonder why it takes so long to hear from an agent you’ve submitted your carefully crafted book proposal to, or why you hear nothing at all, agent Kate McKean wrote an...
I adore walking. Autumn is coming to my spot in the Northern hemisphere and the silver birches and hawthorns are turning pale gold. All that fresh air stimulates parts of my brain that the...
While I was standing in 40 degree shade (104 F), eating rose-water and pistachio baklava in a small town on the Albanian coast during August, I thought of you. I did, honestly. OK, a significant part...
I’m not talking about what we can’t see that’s right in front of us. About when we are tired and over-worked. Our mind is on a different course and we just don’t see the...
Essential in cricket, land ownership and relationships. Not so noticeable in the books we read. But knowing what is in, and what is out, is how you write a good book. Writing a book is not about...