Writing Magazine – BookTok Business
Is TikTok every author’s dream marketing platform? Simon Whaley chats to two authors about their experiences. In 2022, the Publishers’ Association attributed some of 2021’s five per cent rise in …
Features
Mordiford and Hampton Bishop
My latest route is in the April 2023 issue of Country Walking magazine (out now) and is a lovely stroll around the rivers Lugg and Wye near Mordiford, Herefordshire. Even …
Glorious Glenridding
My feature about Glorious Glenridding, in Cumbria’s Lake District, is in the latest issue of The People’s Friend (Issue dated Saturday 1st April 2023). I can’t believe it’s almost a …
Pitching to Podcasts
The word podcasting was first coined in February 2004. A podcast is an audio show, like radio but, instead of tuning in at a set time, we can download and …
St Michael and All Angels – Evergreen
Like many churches dedicated to St Michael, Hawkshead’s St Michael and All Angels crowns a hill. This heavenly vantage point overlooks the chimneys and rooftops of this idyllic Lakeland village, …
Writing The Landscape
Ten years ago, Frances Lincoln, publishers of the Alfred Wainwright pictorial guides to the Lake District, launched a brand new literary prize for published nature writing books. Now managed by …
Remarkable Wrexham
You could say Wrexham has an A-list aura about it at the moment. This Welsh border conurbation used to be North Wales’s largest town until the Queen gave it city …
Beautiful Bewdley
“There’s a giraffe, Granddad!” An excited six-year-old girl bounces up and down on her seat as she points out of the train window. Granddad buries his nose in his weekend …
KISS: Keep It Simple Self-publishing
Self-publishing your first book in 2023? Simon Whaley suggests a ten-kiss plan to keeping it simple. Could 2023 be the year you self-publish your first book? As technology advances, self-publishing …