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Are You Recommendable?
Guest Blog by Alan Stevens the Media Coach: Are you recommendable? People are prepared to pay for exactly the set of skills you have. How do they know you are the right person for the task? More often than not, it’s because you’ve been recommended by someone they trust. So how recommendable are you? Firstly, […]
Now That’s How to Run a Conference!
On Friday just gone I attended one of the most interesting, thought provoking and ultimately exciting conference days it has ever been my pleasure to be at. The goals and aspirations of all involved are inspiring and bold. If, or rather, when these goals are achieved it really will put a UK based network in […]
5 Life Lessons from a Survivor
I have had to learn many lessons over the years but those from my recovery, to me, were some of the most important. Top of these have been the intangible things. Things that I had never considered deeply before but my circumstances gave me lots of time to be introspective and ask ‘how can my […]
Team Brainstorming Can Work Wonders
guest blog by TIM LUSCOMBE – Thames Valley Business Advisers You don’t know how much you know. As we go through life, we gather experience and knowledge. We learn from our successes and achievements and build a database of knowledge. How often have you been to a talk, or read something, and thought “I knew […]
Simon Weston OBE reflects on ‘From Behind the Mask’
Pam’s book, From Behind the Mask, for me is not so much about the person Pam was before, even though that is important to understand. This is about the person Pam has become. On the face of it (no pun intended), Pam and I have little in common. What we obviously share is that we […]
Sir Trevor McDonald reviews ‘From Behind the Mask’
One of the things I’ve always thought of as a journalist is how quickly we move from one subject to another in our work, from one major story to another yesterday’s incidents, yesterday’s disasters are soon relegated to the file of things past, always recalled when the occasion demands, but in the main gone from […]
Sir Roger Moore’s review of From Behind the Mask (yes 007!)
I, like many others, vividly remember the news reports and pictures from the site of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and the later front page images of Pam Warren wearing her mask. Who could forget? But in between and since those headlines there is another story which, until I picked up this book, I knew […]
Bringing a Book to Market – part 3
And so there we all sat in the sun dappled courtyard of the Garden Museum, my friend Tony, Sam and Suzanne from Biteback and myself. The advantage of meeting face to face with Biteback Publishing was that I was able to ‘present’ my story. They could see the passion I had for the manuscript and, […]
Bringing a Book to Market – part 2
The phone rang, it was the publishing agent. ‘Do you want the good news or the bad news?’ he said, referring to my manuscript. ‘It is a fantastic story and very inspiring’ was the good news. The bad was ‘you’ve written it very much in the third person, it is too impersonal, there needs to […]