Simon Weston OBE reflects on ‘From Behind the Mask’

Pam’s  book, From Behind the Mask, for me is not so much about the person Pam was before, even though that is important to understand.  This is about the person Pam has become. On the face of it (no pun intended), Pam and I have little in common.  What we obviously share is that we […]

Bringing a Book to Market – part 2

The phone rang, it was the publishing agent. ‘Do you want the good news or the bad news?’ he said, referring to my manuscript.  ‘It is a fantastic story and very inspiring’ was the good news.  The bad was ‘you’ve written it very much in the third person, it is too impersonal, there needs to […]

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 […]