Why not me?

My professional jealousy has gone into overload over lockdown

On Monday evenings, Nicola Slawson and I run life writing sessions and this week, towards the end of the session, Nicola told everybody I had a book deal. Nicola quickly followed it up with: ‘I don’t have one, though.’ 

I flinched.

I really want this newsletter to grow and I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few weeks thinking about how many more newslet…