KRIS ASHTON

Trawl through my blog posts and you’ll see I’m very much in favour of editors and the criticism they offer. Because my life is almost...

Yesterday I finished rewriting a short story I first ‘completed’ more than seven years ago. The initial idea, which I won’t relate here,...

The novice writer who is trying to get published is prone to developing a persecution complex. I know I did. After all, I had spent my...

My first boss in publishing once said something that I have subscribed to ever since: “Everybody needs an editor. Especially the editor.”...

Journalism is one of the few remaining careers where a qualification isn’t the be all and end all; even if you don’t have a Bachelor of...

The wisest minds in the writing world will tell you how important it is to get a third party perspective on your story when it comes time...