Category Archives: Publishing

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Tough Times Need Indie Spirit

When I left the publishing industry at the end of 2007, the first Kindle had gone on sale just a month earlier, Apple had not yet launched the iPad and few people in publishing knew what an app was. It was a very different world. Fast forward to 2021 and for me the changes are…

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Featured in The Guardian this week

I was featured in the Guardian this week as I was invited to comment on why I think sales of mind, body and spirit books are growing at such a fast rate this year. It is very exciting for people who have worked in this area for a long time to see that the public…

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Wherever You go, There You are – the Meaning of Mindfulness

I have been re-visiting my ideas about mindfulness in the last few days in preparation for an event which I am facilitating. I first came across the term ‘mindfulness’ many years ago when I was sent an early copy of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book, Wherever You go, There You Are, with a view to my being…

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Why Publishers Take So Long to Publish

In an ideal world, an author would write a book and a publisher would make it available to its audience within a few weeks. This ideal world exists if you self-publish. Or, if your book is so topical that it has to be an instant publication – or it won’t be worth publishing at all. But for most…

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