Hello to all you new subscribers. Lovely to have you.

Like most of you no doubt, I'm still working out how to juggle the various balls thrown haphazardly into the air by the current situation. A big thank you and a significant piece of cake (🍰) if you're one of the brilliant people who has signed up to find out when my writing courses and resources launch.

Most of my time has been taken up with client work and wrangling the kids. However, last week I spent my evenings putting some new decking around my writing shed. It's all finished and looks great!

I'm now working on a longer piece for this newsletter that explains how I managed to build a garden office. It's really rather handy right now. Got specific shed questions? Just hit reply and ask away.

That's it for now. Go find something excellent in the links below.

Links of the week

Every issue I collect and share the best advice, apps and other shenanigans that I find on my internet travels. Find something useful? Subscribe for free.

I Miss The Office – very pretty site that plays sounds from the office to make you feel... at home?

The 40 Best Literary Adaptations to Stream Right Now – or you could watch Tiger King, of course

Sip – collect, organize and share your colors – fantastic Mac app if you work with multiple colour palettes (like I do)

My Tools for Writing Workflow – some good stuff here from SL Huang, especially Workflowy that I’m tempted to try again myself

A utopian vision for the next 10 years of publishing – Kit Caless of Influx Press tells it like it will be

A Modern Take on the Pomodoro Technique – good overview of the app Forest, which I've shared before

Ten children’s books everyone should read – lots of good stuff here

Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape – and more here too

When Virtual Literary Events Are an Opportunity for Accessibility – I do think this switch to video events will become commonplace

Funding for writers during COVID-19 – this is useful specifically for UK writers

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Tweets of the week

Tweets are but buttocks on some terrible swamp beast. But some of them are quite good. You can follow @iainbroome and @unslush on Twitter.

Sir Quentin Blake HQ @QuentinBlakeHQ

As the last ones proved to be rather popular, Quentin has created six new colouring in sheets for you to download: quentinblake.com/fun-free/colou… 3 for 'novices' and 3 for 'advanced' artists. Please share your creations in the comments below :)

April 15th 2020

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge

Right my lovelies, if you're a bookseller, an indie publisher, another business that can still post books to readers, reply to this thread and I'll share and pin this tweet with your replies. 🙏📚 (Don't be shy, please add a link to your site for ease).

April 13th 2020

240 Retweets419 Likes

Iain Broome @iainbroome

One of my boys wrote a story today and it's basically how every author ends the first draft of a novel.

April 10th 2020

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