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What better way to finish the school holidays than a trip to the park. You can let you mind wander while the kids get to ‘run off all that energy’. When at a park, I usually have a pen or pencil and a notepad close by, to capture ideas and images as they pass my […]

How do you currently gather your ideas? What? You don’t keep your ideas, your random thoughts and your dreams in one place! No wonder you have not finished your book. Think about the way you learn. This could be the best indicator of how you could store your ideas, thoughts and dreams. THE TOP 5 […]

Jessica Hische has written a book named In Progress – see inside a lettering artist’s sketch book and process from pencil to vector. How can a book with a focus on the art of lettering be transferred across other industries, in particular, writing books? Have a look at the steps that Jessica uses to approach […]

Key questions that you could to ask yourself to achieve this goal are below: 1.    Why do I want to write a book? 2.    Where can I collect content? 3.    Do I write a blog? 4.    Have I written content for publications? 5.    Do I have content in writing that can be scanned, converted to […]

Businesses can forget the fantastic leverage you get when you publish a book. A book can become the base for many other content, interactive, selling and learning platforms. Some immediate ideas that come to mind are as follows: *      Sample chapters could be provided as a free e-book. *      Basis for building your next app. […]

While reading Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook, it reminded me of the importance of filling in the empty spaces in my notebooks with quotes. This is a great practice on a number of levels. First, it encourages you to consider the thoughts of great thinkers and how you might apply those thoughts to your own […]

Will you finish before your ending? Recently, a wonderful colleague passed away. We had been talking about him putting his specialised knowledge into a book, so this could be shared for future generations. Unfortunately, he died before he finalised his work. I could not help but feel very disappointed that his knowledge had gone with […]

Ocean Reeve Inhouse Publishing Ocean has been a great resource for our team as we take our books on their independently published paths. Ocean regularly quotes, “..Is it trade standard?” Those in the book publishing industry are very aware of the importance of this question. Catch up with some wonderful words of wisdom from Ocean […]