by Gill Booles | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog, Content, Print, production
Contents pages are the magazine equivalent of the appendix, a part that we no longer need. Evolution from print to digital has made this part of a publication redundant. It’s easier to navigate a digital title from the thumbnail grid showing all the pages laid out in...
by Gill Booles | Jan 15, 2013 | Articles, Freelancing
Writing this blog is displacement activity. Humour me if you will. For I fear that whilst I am ‘with article’ there’s a serious risk of relentlessly pursuing contributors like a pack of hounds running a fox to ground. If the phone rings, don’t answer. It will be me,...
by Gill Booles | Nov 19, 2012 | Articles, Editing, Website
Get your facts right, they said. All the companies featured in the publication I was working on were multinationals and household names. And their top people had been interviewed for the accompanying worldwide TV series, so it wasn’t like I was being asked for...
by Gill Booles | Oct 11, 2012 | Editing, Proofreading, Self-publishing
“You must meet Sue,” the friend says “she’s taking early retirement and is going to be a proofreader. Perhaps she could lend you a hand.” “Is she trained? How much experience does she have? ” I ask, keen to have a go-to-person for times like this when I’m too busy to...
by Gill Booles | May 1, 2012 | Self-publishing
Sadly the web is awash with self publishers, making zero revenue, but boasting of removing the editor, literary agent or other stage in the publishing process. And the many bloggers with amazing stories to tell and conspiracy theories for the failure to get media...
