So now we had an empty shop. And there were three partners: myself, Creative Future and Goldsboro Books. Now we needed people: Established writers Workshop and event leaders Volunteers Mentees – and book buyers Writers. The original idea was to work with established writers alongside new voices, so I started by contacting about fifteen successful [...]
One of the first brutal lessons a writer learns is that getting visibility for your book is hard. I'm sure I'm not the only writer who sneaked into bookshops to try and find their own book, emerging crushed when it wasn't there, or was tucked away, spine out, on some low shelf. There are thousands [...]
I've been so busy with our community pop-up project The Book Makers that I haven't had much of a chance to think through what we achieved. After six hectic months, The Book Makers finally closed its doors on December 18, so I'm going to do a few posts over the next few weeks to try [...]
On 24 November I took part in a Pecha Kucha at Atelier by The Sea, an arts space on Brighton's seafront. This is the talk I gave about how I think books have changed in my lifetime. A Pecha Kucha is kind of like a high-pressure Powerpoint where you have 20 slides, each of which [...]
Nice audio interview by Kent Online about why I - and other writers - chose to set their books in Kent.
