3 news stories that prove you need to write and publish your book NOW Did you say that in 2024 you’d write a book, but never finished it? Perhaps you got a little further: you finished the first draft but then convinced yourself there’s no point publishing. I’ll bet you’ve told yourself a whole host of reasons why you shouldn’t publish. “Self-published books never do well”; “I’m too old or young to be writing a book”; “no one will want to read it”; “it doesn’t fit into a spe

The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) Conference is held every year during the second weekend of September. This year I attended for the first time. I wasn’t really sure what it would entail, so now I share with you a combination of review and overview of the event, so you can get an idea of what it’s like (if you’re a fellow editor or proofreader considering going next year) or if you’re nosy about what happens when a group of editors and proofreaders ge

When I finished my first two proofreading qualifications with the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) I thought I had a pretty good grounding in how to discuss a potential author’s book so that we’d both know what the project would involve. But when I started creating my template of questions and wanted to check if I’d missed anything, the only posts that came back when I searched ‘questions an editor should ask an author’ were ‘questions an author should a