WRITING A BOOK… The timing has to be right, in terms of one’s work and availability, and these two threads are now coming together for me — I plan to write a book on Business Writing Tips this summer.  Even if I get delayed it will be published by January 2015.  How exciting is that! Here is the rough plan for my new book. The book’s aim is to provide easy and practical advice on around 20 writing topics (each of...

Here’s the first of several blogs on ‘Writing for the web’ – my most popular training course, which I have delivered across the UK, to a range of organisations, over 50 times. READ my other blog posts on web writing secrets and my suggested 10 tips for writing good web content.  But on this blog post I give you 3 bits of advice on writing website HOME PAGES: 1) Got a strap line for your website? WALK into an office and...

  Soon after I moved to Oxford in 2010, I set myself some ambitions.  I did not know anyone yet, so had time on my hands… the house I bought needed things done to it… and I felt life would slip away if I did not press on and achieve some of my other lifetime goals. Here’s what I wanted to do: Create a lovely garden – somewhere I could work, relax and entertain Read more novels – to keep up with trends and not miss out on a key pleasure Learn to...

  LOTS of demand for my help these days… so it seems. 5 training courses delivered in 20 days last month.  Not all the same courses – nor the same clients: Get Blogging – University of Oxford (Department of Continuing Education) Writing for the web – Enfield Voluntary Action (for Directory of Social Change) How to write effectively – Army Families Federation (for Media Training, London) Writing for the Web – Oxford University (for Media...

Do you want your book to be a success – to be well-received, to sell and/or to earn some money? “Self-publishing” means you or your company are cited as the publisher, but do some of us take the “self” message one step too far? Are you trying to do as much of the process yourself, or will you call upon others for help – paid or unpaid, and whom? There are three components that determine how well a self-published book does, says Helen Bryant,...