Publishing

The offer arrives, and with it forty pages of clauses. Here are the sections that matter, in the order a first-time author should read them.

Six weeks of bookshops, festival green rooms and regional trains, and what a touring writer actually learns from reading the same forty pages out loud.

Six people, four months and roughly two hundred rejected versions stand behind the image on the front of a novel. Here is how the cover of The Dragon's Embrace was made.