Low Down on The Numbers

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Janet Reid, a literary agent, posted an item on her blog last week on the issue of self-published authors queryin...

Avoiding the Pretense

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne I'm still on the road and by the time this post 'airs' I will probably be on a plane somewhere over t...

Omit Needless Words!

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne It's with a wee bit of wistfulness that I write this blog post, as not only have we bid 'au revoir' t...

Kindle Lending Library Controversy

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne So unless you have been hiding under a rock (and sometimes with all the changes in the industry I would like to d...

All Hallows Read

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne In honor of tonight's Halloween, I thought I would plug a great idea touted by Neil Gaiman , called All Hallo...

Podcasts, Research and Marketing

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Ever since I purchased my iPhone and iPad a year and a bit ago, I have become a podcast junkie. I listen to them ...

Virtual Book Tours – YA Style

By Jordan Dane On a Dark Wing - When 16-year old Abbey Chandler cheats Death and lives past her expiration date, her lucky break comes at a...

"Discoverability"

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Continuing Jim's great discussion yesterday, I heard a term last week that I think sums up one of the challen...

State of Play

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne I had a great visit to New York, justified in part by our friends' wedding anniversary (a fabulous rooftop re...

The Big Apple

I'm off to New York today to attend a friend's 10 th wedding anniversary party and to see my agent. I'll be back online (I hope...

Proposals vs. Manuscripts

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne A friend of mine asked me the other day about how and when published authors use proposals to sell their work as ...

Book Scars

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Inspired by a recent article in the New York Times ' What we Do to Books ' I thought I would scour my boo...

Fear and the Ordinary

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne The end of this week marks the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and I still vividly recall where I was when the news c...

The Future is Theirs

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Finally everything seems to have calmed down at the Langley-Hawthorne household - Dad's recovery is going wel...

Just call me Nurse Clare

So another apology and another missed blog post. After returning from the USA to help look after my Dad, I've had one boy suffering from...

Publicists in the New Digital Age

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne As I am still virtually 'in communicado ' after my father's knee replacement surgery (still on 'd...

Characters as Movie Stars

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne A few weeks ago the news broke that Tom Cruise had signed on to play Jack Reacher in the movie version of Lee Chi...

Writing Software

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne I feel sure we have probably addressed this issue before but I need some input on writing software options. Being...

The End is Nigh - Read all About it!

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne We've blogged a lot about the challenges and changes in the publishing industry but this week I came to the s...

Inspiring Self-Confidence

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Following on from Jim's terrific post yesterday, I was thinking about the methods I use to try and push aside...