About: Martin Toseland

  I don’t know about you, but when I pick a non-fiction title in a bookshop, I flick straight to the back in search of the index. It’s an old habit formed of an awareness that a well-constructed index is perhaps the most reliable and efficient means to understand what a book is really about…
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Getting the right voice for your book

You’ll have discussed between you the content, the readership and target dates; you have your contract and are now excited about getting cracking on your book. It’s taken a while to get to this stage after all.  But how does it actually work in practice? How does the process of getting your life, your experiences,…
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Only four days in and November really hasn’t been the best, has it? Without repeating every line of the list of rubbish things that have happened and those that are, as I write, ‘rubbish-in-progress’, the first week of November 2020 is fast becoming the very model of Rubbish First Weeks. One item on that list…
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There are hundreds of us, all over the world, lots with impressive CVs and credits to our names. How do you even begin to decide which to approach about your book? I think the first useful thing most authors can do is to think about the kind of book they want to publish: are there…
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