I’ve been asked whether I’d be interested in writing a book. It’d be a very small, very local affair but I thought that, nevertheless, it’d be helpful to ask for a bit of basic advice from the several writers and publishers on here.

Couple of years or so ago I was at a local Arts fair and fell into conversation with a woman from a local independent publishing house. I said I liked the sort of stuff they do, and she asked whether I had any suggestions for anything else they could do. As it happened, I did have an idea, and so gave her a 1-sentence elevator-pitch and then suggested a title. She made a note, took my details, and asked whether I’d like to write that book. “Nah” I laughed, and wandered off to talk to someone else. I never gave it another thought. Until yesterday.

So yesterday, The Lovely Julie and I were in a cafe in town, up on the first floor, and she looked out of the window and made a comment about what she could see from up there. And I said “Y’know, I once told somebody that I thought there could » Continue Reading.