by Orna Ross | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized |
I'm very pleased to have organised foreign right representation for ALLi members again. From January 2015, ALLi will be teaming up with Toby Mundy Associates (TMA) to provide a unique subsidiary rights service for author-publishers, through The Alliance of Independent...
by Orna Ross | Dec 12, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The Bookseller 100 is a listing of the 100 most influential people in the UK book business and I'm honoured and thrilled to be included again this year. I believe this is a measure of self-publishing's increasing acceptance within publishing and the book trade...
by Orna Ross | Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Graham Greene: “I was trying to write a book that simply would not come. I did my daily five hundred words, but the characters never began to live. So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income...
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Regular readers will know how influential the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, lecturer and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh, has been on my own thinking, especially for the Go Creative! books. Now the 88-year-old “Thay” (as his followers call him,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Has it happened to you: a restless night, spent tossing and turning, yielding good creative ideas? In a recent podcast, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels admitted that while under the stress of having to produce a topical weekly show he found that a lack of...