Dear Diary

This has become more of a diary entry than a blog post simply because no one reads it. Each of these words is carefully chosen and together they are crafted into fine sentences which may one day be truly appreciated by scholars.

It's two years since I gave up teaching to work on Hobart Books full-time and yet I still wake up with a sense of dread. I wonder if that feeling will ever go.

My ideal day would start with a coffee and a bit of writing, then a quick visit to the gym, more writing, then reading and watching Netflix whilst eating chocolate. Instead I spend my mornings trying to find new ways to connect books to readers. Or is it the other way round?

What I have discovered is that it's not enough to have great books written by great writers. Trying to claim our market share is the biggest difficulty. Everything seems to work against the publisher.

However there is no option but to keep going. When we started sales were slow but I didn't expect that to remain the case two years later.