by Beverley Glick

You may have heard of ChatGPT, the latest advance in open-source artificial intelligence, which can answer questions by referring to its vast database of knowledge and language models. So, I thought I’d ask it, ‘What is a developmental editor?’

It gave me a...

It was about 8:30 pm on 29 August 2018, and most of my nearest and dearest business friends were around the table, having just eaten a wonderful meal in celebration of my 60^th Birthday. I stood up and to those friends, I committed to doing more research around my work and, ‘over the next...

I have always been very interested in observing people and their behaviour, even down to studying their body language. It is what got me interested in marketing in my early career. I wanted to understand how and why people were motivated to buy different brands. Over the years, as I studied...

A close friend has lacked confidence most of her life. If she had to speak up in meetings, she would get so anxious that her voice trembled as she spoke. On one occasion she was so fearful that she had a panic attack and had to leave the meeting. Fast forward two years, she is calmer and more...

Some people have always known they’d write a book; others have no desire to, or they know with just as much certainty that they never will. And then there’s a middle gang – those who are drawn to the idea but question whether they’ve got it in them.

Until I wrote How to be...