Come Together

Collaboration is easier and cheaper than ever before. Building a business with colleagues based in Scotland, hundreds of miles from where I live, is easy with WhatsApp, email and a spreadsheet or two. When self-publishing, an editor in Brisbane, a designer in Cornwall...

Papua New Guinea

A phrase I’ve come across online is ‘location independence’. It means being able to work anywhere you want to, whether that’s Pinner, Poplar or Papua New Guinea. As long as you’ve got an internet connection and a laptop or even just a...

High Hopes

Long before I faced redundancy and looked at a career as a writer, and well before I’d considered editing, I’d already decided to write. That decision had come from a painful place: my relationship with my dad. This was around 2000/2001, and we...

Space Walk

When I left full-time employment and struck out on my own, I remember walking into my new rented office on the first day of self-employment. To say that I was awkward and uncomfortable in this new environment would be an understatement. Neil Armstrong might well have...

Embracing The Future

There are two fundamental messages that I want my forthcoming book to promote: The first is: The second is about knowledge. I reckon knowledge really is power. Sounds corny but it’s true. When you have knowledge you can beat fear. Knowledge of yourself, the...