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How to be successful …without hollow laughter…
I’m tidying up my other webisite and came across this piece I wrote several years ago, so I thought I’d share it here. These days I’m a publisher as well as a writer, and when I look back at when I had my first work published I realise I was dreadfully naïve – I thought…
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Old Women in Books: on publishing your mother
Today is my mum’s birthday. Ghillian Potts is 84. Like me, she has written all her literate life, and still has a notebook full of poems written between the ages of about 7 and 12, (of variable quality!) To celebrate, my publishing company, Arachne Press, is publishing two of her books today. I crowd funded…
Cherry Potts, Writer 