It’s April already, and somehow we are a quarter of the way through the new year. I thought I’d do a little review of how the first few months have […]
Tag: work
Settling into 2022
It took me a remarkably long time to settle into the new year. Toward the end of last year, I found myself distinctly lacking in motivation, and rather than re-energising […]
Taking the pressure off a product launch
Last week, I finished off a new product and put it out into the world. It’s a workbook that takes you step-by-step through the 7 stages of creating a plan […]
3 tips for self-promotion (when you hate promoting yourself)
So, in my last newsletter, I talked about how I had embraced self-promotion and had been ‘selling’ every day in order to promote a launch I was working. Then the […]
How to get out of your comfort zone
Did you know that ‘work for myself’ has been on my list of goals since about 2014? In fact, in January 2014, I wrote in my journal that by December […]
Am I in trouble?
No. Of course I’m not. I’m never in trouble. And yet. I constantly feel like I’ve done something wrong and I’m about to get caught out. When I’m in the […]
On finding ‘the balance’
This could equally have been titled: ‘Discovering that I’m actually a workaholic’ because finding ‘the balance’ so far has proved elusive. There are a multitude of reasons that I decided […]
5 ways online content can help your author marketing
One of the key elements of author marketing is creating a presence online. By that I mean having a website. Being on social media. Sending out a newsletter more than […]
The realities of freelance life with Stuart Bache and Natasha Hughes of Books Covered
This week I have two of my former colleagues on my blog! Tash and Stu are two lovely individuals who fell in love in the office, then decided to change […]
The realities of freelance life: Rachel Burton – Author
I’m not at all a full-time freelancer. I’m not really even a part-time freelancer. I work four days a week for a London publishing house, and am just starting to […]