After surviving that 25-hour flight from New Zealand to Heathrow, I headed straight to the beautiful city of Winchester and relaxed for a day in the Royal Winchester Hotel’s terrace garden which my room overlooked. Good food and a comfortable
Words matter. Conjured into stories, they are powerful. And after writing systems developed some 5000 years ago and words were engraved into stone as a permanent, definitive ‘truth’, their power became mighty. In cultures worldwide, myths claim fertility as a
Only the author conjures those words into their magical sequence, but a book’s success depends on cooperation not isolation. Most authors realise the value of editors, proofreaders, alpha and beta readers and a range of technical or professional experts available
Now that A Biography of Story, A Brief History of Humanity is released, I want to show you why I wrote this non-fiction book and broke three ‘golden rules’ of publishing. One of my editors described the book as ‘a love letter
Remember Twitter before the ‘selfie’ craze? No one bothers to read tweets without images now. Even fewer will recall computing with DOS before Windows raised our expectations to click on a picture to open a Pandora’s Box. Our experience is
