Writing, marketing and technology
First off, I have to admit that I am a big Kawasaki fan. His first book, The Macintosh Way (now a free download), got me excited about running my own business and helped me launch Intelligent Games when I was at college. I was lucky enough to meet him in 2002 and he is as [...]
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One of the most popular pages on this site is How to be a freelance journalist, which is based on my experiences in that job in the early 2000s. It’s a tough gig and getting tougher. Because of this post, Marc Leverton interviewed me for his recent book, How to work as a freelance journalist. [...]
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Naming things is hard so Russell Davies has come up with this helpful guide to picking a title for your next book. It’s bound to be a bestseller. (Hat tip: IO9 the site with the best tagline – ‘we come from the future’.)
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I’m reading Max Hastings Finest Yearsand there’s a lovely quote in there: “An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late.” It’s the same for writers. But I wonder why? This is a slightly different problem from the one I discussed in November which involves doing stuff at the last minute because a [...]
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I talked to a few publishers this year about doing a book of Badlangauge.net. I even wrote a few pitches. The problem is that the book I wanted to write was different from the book editors wanted to publish. I couldn’t put my finger on the problem except that they kept on referencing titles like [...]
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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He edits Golf Hotel Whiskey and writes the Forbes Aviator column.
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