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Walking is the Way Forward
Walking is having a moment, isn’t it? Well, it is for me. It started last year when I read a piece by journalist Polly Vernon on how she’s incorporated at least three hours’ walking into her life every...
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Drive Forward
I spent yesterday evening mock-interviewing young care-leavers to help them practice their interview skills. It’s part of an initiative by the Drive Forward Foundation, a charity that supports...
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How to Go on Holiday on Your Own
I seem to be part of a zeitgeist for solo travel, with more and more people than ever opting to take their vacations on their own, even if they’re in a couple. I’ve been doing it for five years now,...
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I Don’t Know Why I Love the Tour de France
I don’t know quite why I love the Tour de France so much. These days I never get on a bike, and when I used to do it, I chose mountain-biking, not road-cycling. That was, until a move to the city put...
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A Meeting of Minds
I’ve just attended the IT as a Utility (ITaaU) conference in the Solent University Conference Centre, Southampton, as a guest of the co-ordinator, Steve Brewer (@SteveITaaU). It is a community of...
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When Authors Go Astray
I had intended to sit down today and write a piece on what happens when your favourite author writes something you really don’t like; that is so unlike the thing you’ve been buying into all these years...
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The World is Going Freelance
I’ve really noticed a mass exodus in the last couple of years from the publishing workplace – the sheer number of people setting themselves up as freelancers. It’s happening in editorial, in PR,...
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What Does An Editor Do?
Last night I chaired a panel discussion at Byte the Book, a monthly networking club for authors and people who work in publishing. The debate was focused on the new array of independent publishing...
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Let’s Talk About Books
I’m in The Bookseller this week, talking about books: Let’s Talk About Books
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Meet Sara El-Amin
This is Sara, a 23-year-old who is working at the hotel I’m staying at in Dahab. She has just completed a BA degree in Mass Communication, majoring in Journalism, from MTI in Cairo and the University...
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Secret Coffee
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in 2015 it’s the importance of networking. The very mention of this word used to make me shudder. It seemed alien to me – something aggressive, maybe imported from the...
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