Authors

How to Read a Publishing Contract: Royalties, Rights and Red Flags

October 07, 2026

A clause-by-clause guide to publishing contracts: how royalty bases really work, which rights you are granting, how to keep a reversion...

October 03, 2026

How to plan readings, fill a room, work well with independent bookshops and turn signed stock into sales that outlast the launch night itself.

October 02, 2026

Autumn is the busiest stretch of the UK writing calendar. Here is how the deadlines fall, and a routine for getting your work in on time.

October 01, 2026

Everything British literary agents expect from a submitted manuscript — font, spacing, headers, word count, file type and synopsis —...

September 29, 2026

A plain comparison of traditional and self-publishing for UK debut authors, covering costs, rights, royalties, timelines and how books...