Pursuing patrons

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

If there’s one aspect of IT management that ticks me off, it’s the weird world of subscriptions. I’m frequently amazed by what businesses will tolerate when it comes to restrictive contracts, and by t

Social media dominates the writing world. We’re encouraged to have writer profiles that promote our work, publicise our writing projects, and help us engage with readers. In the BSM days (Before Socia

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

The Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize is running again this autumn, and we are looking for outstanding texts from unagented and unpublished authors. We have two categories: picture books and chap

We think you can break the internet era into three rough phases. First, for a few years in the mid-to-late 1990s, it seemed that most online content would always be free. That utopian vision didn’t la