All my blogs are about being an agent, about being a reader, about being human, about our business, about writing, about me. Each one could be indexed five different ways. We can all be indexed in a hundred different ways. I am not very good at indexing.
Here is the one that kicked it off: Publishing for Humans 5th January 2015
Here is my most recent post: The Gap Between Things: Not Writing 26th April 2021
Here are my most-read:
2018: A Commitment to Storytelling, which is the end of the story I began here: 2017: Year of the Storytellers 15th January 2018
Bad Science: Lifting the Curse of Bad Track 6th March 2017
Your life is no ordinary life: ‘Commercial women’s fiction’ 7th Sep 2015
How do you like me now?: Making and losing friends in publishing 12th January 2015
What did you learn?: Why we all need mentors 19th October 2015
Puppy? What puppy?: Publishing genre fiction creatively 3rd October 2016
Here I am, in your house: Editorial interference 9th February 2015
Here is another favourite of mine: A Million Dream Maps: The Market 23rd February 2015
And this: Living Life Through Metaphor: The necessity of fiction 5th May 2015
And this: Everything happening all at once: Finding time 9th November 2015
Here I am: Forever Young: The right time to be successful 20th December 2016
This feels important: More of a City than a Village: On Inclusivity 28th February 2020
Maybe more than anything else: It’s Summer: Something beautiful 27th August 2016
Here are some rough guidelines as to topic (some repeat listings):
Our Business:
Puppy? What puppy?: Publishing genre fiction creatively 3rd October 2016
Discovery: Oh I wrote a blog about marketing 11th July 2016
What did you learn?: Why we all need mentors 19th October 2015
Shall we do lunch? London, New York, Frankfurt 5th October 2015
Your life is no ordinary life: ‘Commercial women’s fiction’ 7th September 2015
Let’s go! To The London Book Fair 10th April 2015
Happy Accidents and Useful Collisions: The making of a bestseller 2nd March 2015
A Million Dream Maps: The Market 23rd February 2015
Bad Science: Lifting the Curse of Bad Track 6th March 2017
The Art of the Compliment Sandwich: Praise 2nd February 2015
Love Work Art: Do you have a sense of purpose? 7th December 2015
More of a City than a Village: On Inclusivity 28th February 2020
Being an Agent:
Risk and Reward: high advances 18th March 2019
See Me Now: Pride 3rd May 2016
Hi, I’m Lizzy, I’ll be your nerd today: The detail of publishing 23rd November 2015
Let me represent you: The agent’s verb 6th July 2015
Who do you think you are?: How we embraced change and why you should too 22 June ’15
The Interference: What I do 15th June 2015
Agent of the Year: Good agenting 16th February 2015
World Rights: Agents hold firm 15th April 2016
Here I am, in your house: Editorial interference 9th February 2015
Voice: Just Be Yourself 15th February 2016
Clarity: How to love your contract 1st February 2016
The Second Best Answer in Show Business: Rejection 19th January 2015
How do you like me now?: Making and losing friends in publishing 12th January 2015
Being an Author:
Let us be Kind: Why authors are amongst the kindest of humans 21st September 2015
In the Wilderness: The author who went out of contract 14th September 2015
On the Way to Where You are Going: A writer’s patience 9th March 2015
Are you talking to me?: Writing under a new identity 11th May 2015
The Stories Writers Tell: How to be an author 26th January 2015
Home for Christmas: This is your book, this is your work 21st December 2015
Writing:
Interior with a View: Writing during the lockdown 5th April 2020
Anything is Possible: Writing without Fear 29th February 2016
I am a runner: I run. Be a writer: write 13th July 2015
Same story, Different story: How genre fiction imitates life 20th June 2016
Beautiful language: Simple language: How many words do you need? 29th June 2015
The Turn in the Road: Finding story in event 1st June 2015
Self-Reliance: Experiments with no reader 21st March 2016
Let’s be Friends: Characterisation 16th November 2015
I am writing to you: You are my reader 8th June 2015
Thinking at Night: Writing into the silence 23rd March 2015
Everything happening all at once: Finding time 9th November 2015
Love Work Art: Do you have a sense of purpose? 7th December 2015
What Really Happened?: Memory, story, history 18th January 2016
You are going to break our hearts and we shall thank you for it!: One way to write a bestselling book 8th May 2017
Being a Reader:
A Re-Enchantment: How I found my way back to fiction 30th January 2017
Reading and writing: A physical experience 3rd August 2015
I liked her: Bookclub fiction 27th July 2015
I am writing to you: You are my reader 8th June 2015
Let’s All Fall in Love: Reading and romance 16th March 2015
Living Life Through Metaphor: The necessity of fiction 5th May 2015
Actual practical advice rather than generic kindness and encouragement:
Your book flashing before your eyes: A Synopsis 20th April 2015
Observations on genre:
Puppy? What puppy?: Publishing genre fiction creatively 3rd October 2016
Crime and violence: Those who do not flinch 16th May 2015
Your life is no ordinary life: ‘Commercial women’s fiction’ 7th September 2015
Let’s All Fall in Love: Reading and romance 16th March 2015
Same story, Different story: How genre fiction imitates life 20th June 2016
We’re all so human:
Discovery: Oh I wrote a blog about marketing 11th July 2016
Let’s Honour the Day: Working out what is important 11th January 2016
Everything happening all at once: Finding time 9th November 2015
I’m calling from my kitchen: Real and metaphorical places 28th September 2015
A Re-Enchantment: How I found my way back to fiction 30th January 2017
What Happens Next: Predicting the future 27th April 2015
Thinking at Night: Writing into the silence 23rd March 2015
Anything is Possible: Writing without Fear 29th February 2016
It’s Summer: Something beautiful 27th August 2016
Forever Young: The right time to be successful 20th December 2016