Mary Cummings, Developmental Editor, Nonfiction Book Pubishing
I help business leaders and academics transform promising drafts into highly engaging books
My work and home life seemed to be a constant juggling act as I flitted between writing, washing, editing, nap times, editing, school runs, writing, cooking and everything else in between.
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“No Thanks. Not for us.”
All new writers who’ve thrown themselves into the publishing ring have heard these words at one point. It softens the blow, somewhat, to know that even your writing mentors have faced the same experience at some time in their career.
As a new or budding author, everyone and his mother will tell you to use blogging to promote your new business book. And they would, of course, be right.
As a working mum of three, I’ve got into the habit of planning my ‘New Year’ with their new academic year in September.
With this in mind, I’ve come up with my short list of resolutions for a more profitable year of freelancing.
Writing as an expert in your field is only partly about who you are and what you know.
I learned that from once being locked in an old wardrobe.
I was 14 years old. My brothers, the culprits, were 12, 10 and 8, and it was a horrible albeit brief encounter that taught me a lesson I will never forget.
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