The craft of writing – Jericho Writers Townhouse

How to Sell A Book, if you’re Billy No-Mates

Last week, I explained that the trick of selling on Amazon is to achieve steadily growing traffic and sales over 4-7 days. In effect, you’re…

Harry 1 November 2024

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How to Sell A Book, if you’re a robot

Over the last couple of weeks, we thought about how to sell books the traditional way – print books sold through physical bookstores. The short…

Harry 25 October 2024

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How to Sell A Book, if you’re a portly gentleman running for a door

Last week, I talked about how print-led publishing is essentially dominated by the battle to secure retail space. If your book gets a really good…

Harry 18 October 2024

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The corpse on the page

Last week, I said: “As you write, and as you edit, you are faced with 1,000,000 choices: again and again and again. Are you happy…

Harry 27 September 2024

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Hunting for vowels in Bryngwyn

Who do you write for? I mean, readers, yes, obviously. But who? Your mum? That old English teacher you loved? Crime fans in general? People…

Harry 20 September 2024

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Pitching backwards, and Standing Stones

Last week, I threw out a Feedback Friday challenge based off the first volume of our Good To Great course. The essence of that task,…

Harry 13 September 2024

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Good to Great

There’s a sweet sadness about early September, isn’t there? The leaves aren’t quite turning, but they’re thinking about it. It isn’t quite cold enough for…

Harry 6 September 2024

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A harsh, unforgiving eye

Last week I said this: Next week … I want to look at how very basic plot summaries can give us important clues about the…

Harry 2 August 2024

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Little things, big things

The kids are off school. Yesterday was – complicated. And right now, I have seven kids in the house with me as the only (vaguely)…

Harry 26 July 2024

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Fifteen inches from the eye

I once wrote a book about payroll fraud. (Yawn.) The fraud in question involved some kind of messing about with employee tax deductions. (Snore.) The…

Harry 19 July 2024

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Correction for above - was saying - that we can submit directly to the publisher in Ireland. No need for…