by Sarah Tinsley | Sep 9, 2022 | Advice
Guest post from Janey Burton, a Publishing Consultant, Editor and Contracts Negotiator. Find out more about her advice and services here. Self-publishing still gets a bad rap, and the reason is that the vast majority of self-published books are pretty shoddy efforts....
by Sarah Tinsley | Jan 15, 2022 | Advice
This week involved the completion of Week 1 of The Artist’s Way, my second round of immunotherapy for melanoma and my first walk up the Saléve mountain. Ups and downs in every sense of the word!As far as the creative recovery goes, I think I’m doing pretty well. I...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 8, 2021 | Advice
We all have something we really care about. That one topic that, down the pub, your friends will sit back a little as you prepare to launch into your rant. The topics that have you spiralling into an ever-increasing Internet wormhole or have you doomscrolling on...
by Sarah Tinsley | Sep 24, 2021 | Advice
I am not an endless well of creativity. I know this. Or at least, I tell myself that I know this. But I still trawl through listings, competitions, pitches and the like, making note of them, putting them on my Google spreadsheet (I have lots, ok?) and imagining that I...
by Sarah Tinsley | Sep 10, 2021 | Advice
This week’s advice basically boils down to one thing: I think you should read Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott. But let me explain.In the last eight years I’ve spent a reasonable about of my reading time on books about writing. And there are an awful lot out there. It was...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jul 9, 2021 | Advice
Although the sun is making brief appearances, I decided to root around in the darker parts of myself this week to find some inspiration. What I didn’t realise was that it was already A Thing. I was searching for a suitable picture to use in my workshop that showed...
