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Chaos Getting You Down? Time to Write Your Book

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019
by CaroHandley

We’re living in chaotic, unpredictable and frustrating times. Major change is happening and no-one knows quite what lies on the other side of the extraordinary political upheaval going on around us. Most of us don’t find uncertainty – whether personal or social – easy to live with. We want to know what’s happening and where we stand. We want to be able to plan with a sense of predictability, to map out our lives for the future. But at the moment many of us are feeling increasingly at sea. We’re living through a period of huge political and social confusion,

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019
by HeatherBishop

Liz Gough, publisher of Yellow Kite and lifestyle at Hodder & Stoughton, talks the latest trends in the self-help and wellness market, the non-fiction book that created the biggest buzz at the London Book Fair and what’s currently on her reading pile. Is the lifestyle market still growing?It’s booming! We launched in 2014 and in the past few years most of the major publishers have started their own non-fiction lifestyle imprints. Our strapline at Yellow Kite is ‘books that help you live a good life’ so we cover everything from wellbeing, healthy eating and exercise to mindfulness, work, parenting and

March 11, 2019March 14, 2019
by Ginny Carter

When you have a personal story that you’re burning to get out into the world, a book is a brilliant way to do it. We’ve all read memoirs and autobiographies that have gripped us, moved us, and made us laugh (or cry). Wouldn’t it be amazing if yours was one of them? But how do you know if your story is capable of having that kind of impact on thousands of people? Even more, how do you write it so it attracts the attention of a publisher? One thing’s for sure: if you have an important story you must tell it,

March 7, 2019March 7, 2019
by CherylRickman

Today is World Book Day 2019, an annual ode to reading, celebrated by more than 100 countries across the globe. It’s now in its 22nd year. Children and teachers across the UK dress up as their favourite book characters and the children each receive a book token so they can buy a book from a selected list of titles. The main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own and it has a very positive impact. In fact,

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
by Ian Shircore

Funny, isn’t it, how a phrase suddenly becomes topical? “February heatwave” was hardly a common Google search term a week ago, but here we are, digging out our tennis rackets and dusting off our surfboards, exactly a year on from the Siberian horrors of the Beast from the East. Is this the latest evidence of global warming, or just a random fluctuation in our notoriously fickle weather? For most of us, the answer is not especially important. But I have talked to three people in the last year who wanted help to write books about various aspects of climate change.

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