Diary of a First-time Author #1 – How to fail your twenties…
My name is Paul Hawkins and I’m an author. It feels weird and slightly fraudulent saying that but my first book Bad Santas and other Creepy Christmas Characters is being published by Simon and...
View ArticleDiary of a First-Time Author #2 – Up All Night to Get Lucky…
When people have found out about my book, there’s one question that I’ve been asked time and time again. Sometimes by someone asking for themselves, sometimes on behalf of a friend but nonetheless...
View ArticleDiary of a First-Time Writer #3 – A Quick Note on Working for Free
So I’ve talked about doing something to get your work out there and get yourself noticed. One obvious way of doing that is putting your work online and, if you start trying to get your writing...
View ArticleDiary of a First-Time Author #4 – Agents vs working directly with publishers
OK. So you’re putting yourself out there, meeting new people and showing off your writing skills at every opportunity. But, if agents and publishers aren’t beating a path to your doorstep, you may...
View ArticleDiary of a First time Author #11 – On Crushing Rejection…
Periodically an article does the rounds on my Facebook news feed. It’s actually a number of different articles from a number of different websites but the subject matter and examples used are...
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