Tag: author

  • How to be a successful writer

    Want to be a successful writer? It’s a stupid question really. Everyone who seriously puts pen to paper wants to be a success and they dream of the lifestyle that goes with it. The truth is that not that many people get to make a full-time living from their writing and even fewer make the…

  • OMG – I think I’m a cartoonist!

    Taken from Wikipedia: Calum MacKenzie in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists, published in 1979 by the Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, defined the selection criteria: The difference between a cartoonist and an illustrator was the same as the difference between a comedian and a comedy actor – the former both deliver their…

  • The glamourous life of a children's author!

    We complain about children, these days, who can only dream of being celebrities, never thinking they may need talent or might have to do something special to attain that status. Actually, I was like that. Rather than work hard, I daydreamed through my teenage years at school, doodling affirmative statements on my exercise books, usually,…