It is a question I am asked quite often and it is a question I hope to answer very shortly. I was due to write a careers guide to publishing but I cancelled the contract. At the time I had a full time job in publishing, was running bookcareers, all my friends were in publishing, most of my socialising was in publishing and to sit down write about publishing in my spare time almost (not quite, but almost) killed my enthusiasm for the industry that I loved. It will happen at some stage but at moment I think a novel based around ‘sex and shopping’ stands a better chance of being written first, if only because the research sounds so much more fun.
