by Giles Broadbent | Sep 26, 2022 | Blog
Shakespeare was right when he portrayed the frailty of kings. We can use the hollow moves of Putin in Ukraine to illustrate sly cunning in action For the purposes of this blog, we should remove ourselves from the battlefield. We’re going to examine the Russian...
by Giles Broadbent | Sep 18, 2022 | Productivity
According to a new biography, the author of the Discworld fantasy novels, Terry Pratchett, had a very pragmatic view of his talent and priorities. An affectionate portrait of the feted writer Terry Pratchett, creator of monstrous and magical worlds, by Rob Wilkins...
by Giles Broadbent | Sep 10, 2022 | Books
A recent Twitter storm pulled back the curtain on the publishing business and revealed some intriguing secrets about true nature of book sales. It all began with a tweet from April Henry, best-selling mystery and thriller author. From there, readers were suddenly...
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog
What do a gross intestinal stone, landmark consumer law and magic have in common? All of those things come together at the King’s Bench of 1603. The King’s Bench was the most senior court of Common Law in England for most of its existence starting in the late 12th...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 22, 2022 | Techniques
Finding your voice, something that is distinctly you, is not alchemy, it just requires you to be you, says George Saunders, short story supremo A writer’s voice: what is it? You know what it is when you read it. Charles Dickens, JK Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov,...
