Snubbing Should
Swamped with doing everything a writer should? Simon Whaley chats to two writers who do what’s right for them. How many times have you been told that you should do something? Perhaps …
BoW
Business of Writing articles
Box Set Business
Have you considered bundling your books together? Simon Whaley explores the business basics of box sets. Box sets began life as an omnibus edition. Victorian publishers printed two or more …
Tracking Tools
Overwhelmed with tracking ideas, submissions, and series bibles? Simon Whaley chats to three Notion users Ten years ago, in August 2016, two developers released a new piece of software called …
The New Cost of Going Wide
On 14th May 2026, Draft2Digital introduced new fees for self-published authors using their service. Before they introduced these fees, the only cost to authors was a 10% cost based on …
Switching Genres
JK Rowling did it. Michael Crichton did it. And Ruth Rendell did it too. Now, I’m considering following in their footsteps as well. There are many reasons why a writer …
Changing Agents
It’s all part of the dream, isn’t it? Write a book, secure a literary agent, get a publishing contract, and then retire on the proceeds. But that second bit, securing …
Audio First
The audio market is booming and set to grow further. Simon Whaley chats to two writers about how writing for audio can improve our writing generally. Kerboom! Did you hear …
Write Streaming
One of the many things I enjoy most about being a writer is shutting myself away from the world when I write. But perhaps that’s because there’s nobody to watch …
Permission Procedures
Every time we put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, our words are automatically protected by copyright. This means that nobody else should use our work without our permission, …
Clever Connections
Although self-published authors can benefit from selling their books internationally, it also creates issues. For example, if I advertise one of my books with an eBook link to the UK …