Someone else’s shoes

I have two live projects at the moment: ghostwriting a book on teamwork in modern businesses, and doing the development edits for my third novel, to be published by Unbound in late 2019 (I would give the title a plug,... Read More

Use your voice, you don’t have to ‘find’ it

When I worked on news desks, we had a rule to live by: if you’re struggling hard to make the headline and top of the story sound exciting, give it up, go out and get a better story. The most... Read More

We’re stuck with English

Last month, on the UG blog, we covered how modern communications technology facilitates international collaborations between people who rarely, or perhaps never, actually meet. There is a closely linked theme around the dominance of the English language. This has grown... Read More

Draw on your life, if you’ve had one

While I nurtured vague ambitions to be an author as a young man, I made sure I combined impactful life experiences with learning the craft of journalism. After volunteering to help London’s homeless, I backpacked around Europe, taught myself Spanish... Read More

A book by any other name

It’s been noted before in this column that a moment professional authors dread is when someone from another profession comments: ‘Oh, I’m going to write a book when I retire/find the time. Everyone says I should.’ Ours is the only... Read More