TEN BASIC BUT IMPORTANT RULES FOR AUTHORS: Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free. Do all you can to keep yourself in a non-presumptive state that will lead to a ...

I’m a violinist who writes… At 64, the time has come to ‘greet myself arriving at my own door’. As Derek Walcott puts it, in his poem Love After Love, it’s time to: ‘Take down the love letters from ...