About me

I wrote my first book at a kitchen table in the evenings, and I published it with no agent, no publisher and no idea what I was doing. It sold eleven copies, nine of them to family. The second one did better, because by then I had written down every mistake I made on the first.

That list of mistakes became the guides on this site. They are short and they are plain: a checklist for the launch, a worksheet for the blurb, a sheet for the money, a template for the cover brief. Nothing here promises a bestseller. It promises that you will finish the book, put it into the world properly and know what to do on the day after.

I teach the same steps in two video courses, one for getting the first book out and one for the months after. I write from a veranda with a laptop, a jug of cold water and a pile of printed pages, and a small letter goes out every Friday.