Ameesha Smith-Green (@thebookshelfltd) is the founder and owner of The Book Shelf, an international editing and author support company based in the UK. She has worked on well over 500 books so far in her career and specialises in self-published and indie non-fiction authors. 

In this conversation, we discuss the importance of editing for self-published books, the role of the editor for self-published authors, and the editing process overall. If you are writing a book, whether fiction or non-fiction, I recommend you listen to this episode. Ameesha is extremely knowledgeable and there are many nuggets of sagely advice in this one.

You can access full show notes and further details about Ameesha here.

Marcus Hawke (@marcushawke) is an author primarily of horror fiction, some fantasy and sci-fi, and a few things that defy categorisation. After years of rejections, he finally had a short story “Bump In The Night” published in Jitter Magazine back in 2016. Since then, his work has appeared in a number of publications. His full-length novel, “The Miracle Sin“, has also now been published by Blood Rites Horror.

In this conversation, we discuss the writer’s struggle to get published, his own approach to writing, and the art of never giving up.

You can access full show notes and a short written message from Marcus himself encouraging budding writers never to give up here.

Kieren Westwood (@kierenwestwood_) is a writer of short fiction focused on the meeting point of literary and genre fiction. His work has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of writing competitions including the Bridport Prize and Bath Novella in Flash Award. He also shares writing content on his growing YouTube channel.

In this conversation we discuss flash fiction, writing competition strategies and learning how to write.

You can access the full show notes for this episode here.