Writer Kate Pullinger, Editor of The Writing Platform, is also a professor at Bath Spa University, co-sponsors of The Writing Platform. At Bath Spa, Pullinger runs a series of lunchtime talks, aimed at all the postgraduate writing students who study at the Corsham Court Campus. These talks, Digital Corsham, are given by writers, academics, publishers,… Read more »
Article Archive: Experience
The Writing Platform Survey Results
The Writing Platform team
In advance of the launch of The Writing Platform, we have been surveying the digital needs of writers; this article highlights some of our findings. We had over 500 respondents; 67% female, 33% male; 45% between the ages of 35 and 55; 75% of respondents live in the UK, 9% in the US, 5% in… Read more »
Understanding What Readers Want
Kassia Krozser
I don’t remember learning to read, but I clearly remember the day I learned I could read. I was entrusted with a note for my lovely kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Hicks. The note asked that I be excused from school for a doctor’s appointment. As I – quite possibly for the first time in my life… Read more »
Ten Author Websites That Really do the Business
Simon Appleby
Simon Appleby, director of digital agency Bookswarm, highlights ten websites that do their authors justice on the web. Hopefully there’s not a writer alive who doesn’t believe they need a website – there are so many good reasons for having one that even if you don’t agree with all of them, you ought to agree… Read more »