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I read a thread recently which berated authors who use AI as not caring for their readers or their work. I've seen others that won't allow any form of AI, and there is tremendous debate about the use of AI in creative industries. In my opinion many of the comments, lacked understanding of how the process actually works, or what...

A few years ago I came across the Japanese art of Kintsugi.

In this edition, I will be looking at tools to help you run a business as a writer. As always, I have a preference for free tools, and love that the internet has made so much available to us. All you have to do is search for it!

Having fired my publisher, I'm now working on marketing my own work. I've been using AI to supplement my own knowledge, and help me promote my work. These are some of the ways I have found it to be useful. I tend to use ChatGPT as it is free, and I find it very intuitive and effective. Each...

It took years to find a publisher, so deciding to fire them may seem a strange decision. Here's why I did it.

Do you need to know what a street looked like 50 years ago, or find out what it was really like to be in the trenches in the great war? Or maybe you want to read letters or diaries or newspapers from a day in history? If you are writing historical fiction, then research is vitally important - there is...

I held out for a traditional publisher for my novel Sakhira, because I wanted it to be professionally edited, and wanted the validation of a publisher saying it was good enough. I was also expecting the publisher to do a lot of marketing, but the reality is that that simply doesn't happen very often any more. I wasn't expecting...

A little over a year ago, my husband, Ron, was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It's made for a very difficult time for us, and we're just emerging, slightly shellshocked, from a month of daily radiotherapy treatments.

I've been reluctant to try self-publishing, but have finally taken the plunge. I am happy with the results,

I must admit a preference to reading paper books. There is something about the feel of them, and especially, the smell of old books. However, I've recently discovered the joy of ebooks.