You Don't Want to Be Published

ots of people offer aspiring writers easy answers and helpful tips, designed to get them started and focused on the basics. You Don't Want To Be Published takes the other path: offering real tips from the trenches of the writing life, including some counter-intuitive advice that will help focus your practice and business on what really matters to you. This is a book about the mindset and psychology at the heart of making a living as a writer: learning to think of your business as a business, building a network, setting smarter goals, and dealing with the realities of earning your living through words. You Don't Want to Be Published collects together sixteen of the most widely read blog pieces and essays from Peter M Ball, based upon his own experiences writing, organising conferences for authors, and working with new authors to figure out where they're going.