- and so is publishing

I want my headspace back

Why am I so terrible at it?

I feel like something has got lost somewhere in the process of making books.

Why does everything feel so extreme?

The pressure to write, submit and succeed

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

I'm addicted

This week I was going to write about treating writing as your job, and prioritising it as such and then:

The pain of turning the creative into the commercial

As children’s authors/illustrators, it’s easy to think that our customer is the CHILD.

The ones that got away

Get used to saying it

Coping with ugly thoughts

Why do them, how to get them

How do I know?

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(It's not just you)

Across your career as an author, you will have brilliant times and low times.

We have joined forces with other creator-led organisations to co-launch a ground-breaking report showing the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK.

Figuring out what's wrong

It’s easy to burnout in this industry.

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...

From getting them to doing them

How many people look at your work before you submit it?

This Halloween we are standing up for ghostwriters of celebrity-authored children’s fiction - calling for them to be more visible in the world of publishing.

The Society of Authors has launched a campaign to 'make a stand for a better recognition of the contribution and role of ghostwriters in celebrity-authored children’s fiction'.

There was a time I nearly gave up on publishing.