Sir Trevor McDonald reviews ‘From Behind the Mask’

One of the things I’ve always thought of as a journalist is how quickly we move from one subject to another in our work, from one major story to another yesterday’s incidents, yesterday’s disasters are soon relegated to the file of things past, always recalled when the occasion demands, but in the main gone from […]

Sir Roger Moore’s review of From Behind the Mask (yes 007!)

I, like many others, vividly remember the news reports and pictures from the site of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and the later front page images of Pam Warren wearing her mask. Who could forget? But in between and since those headlines there is another story which, until I picked up this book, I knew […]

Bringing a Book to Market – part 3

And so there we all sat in the sun dappled courtyard of the Garden Museum, my friend Tony, Sam and Suzanne from Biteback and myself.  The advantage of meeting face to face with Biteback Publishing was that I was able to ‘present’ my story. They could see the passion I had for the manuscript and, […]

Bringing a Book to Market – part 1

With the advent of the internet and modern technology publishing a book should be easy or so we are told.  That may be true once you’ve written your tale but no-one tells you how difficult it can be to hone your story ready for publication.  I will never be able to pick up an autobiography […]