Sylvia Patterson is one of pop journalism’s best-known voices. Her 2016 memoir I’m Not With The Band (Sphere) was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and won BBC Radio 1 and Annie Nightingale’s Book Of The Year.
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For memoir especially, the most important aspect is finding The Voice. Your voice. And the authenticity of that voice….
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In over 30 years in magazine and newspaper journalism, and now as a non-fiction author and ghost-writer, there is one foundational…
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If the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 create one lasting legacy, maybe it will be this: a profound understanding of…
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“The first draft of anything is shit,” announced Ernest Hemingway once, while crime colossus Val McDermid was…
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7 AM. All is quiet. The noisy tech is switched off. The cup of tea is piping. Your computer is on….