For Writers – Page 2 – Geoff Palmer

The world’s richest short story prize: a warning

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away,” is a phrase that may well apply to what’s claimed[…]

The ticking clock on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award shows that entries close in a little over five[…]

“From my close observation of writers … they fall into two groups: those who bleed copiously and visibly at any[…]

Back in 2010, a survey of book buying behaviour in the US returned the following figures: Author reputation 52% Personal[…]

Just like fingerprints at a crime scene, your browser leaves its fingerprints on every website you visit …

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you[…]

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it. That is your[…]

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Don DeLillo

In late December 2005, J K Rowling’s original website, jkrowling.com, contained the following message: Until very recently, JKRowling.com was a[…]