Engage With EAA
Simon Whaley chats to two publishing accessibility experts about the impact of the European Accessibility Act on self-published authors. Eighteen months ago, in June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) …
Writing Magazine
Ask The Agent: Polly Halladay-Jones
Polly Halladay-Jones joined Georgina Capel Associates in 2021, having studied Literature at the University of Oxford and holding an MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East …
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 …
Ask the Agent: Charlotte Colwill
Simon Whaley chats to Charlotte Colwill of Colwill & Peddle about the chilling genre of literary horror. Charlotte Colwill began her literary career working in independent bookshops in London and …
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 …
Ask The Agent – Alice Saunders
Alice Saunders worked in the rights department at Quadrille Publishing before joining Lucas Alexander Whitley (LAW) as an assistant to Mark Lucas in 2001. She became an agent in 2011, …
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 …
Ask The Agent: Sarah Brooks
Simon Whaley chats to Sarah Brooks of the Darley Anderson agency about the resurgence in Regency romance. Sarah Brooks began her publishing career in 2010 as a rights assistant at …