A question from Google: “I have a manuscript I'd like to publish, what are the steps I need to take? Do I need an editor?”

The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to tell his writing students to make their ‘characters want something straight away – even if it’s only a glass of water’. There is a useful point here for non-fiction business writing.

As the digital reading space keeps changing, it is altering the way we read, remember and, most surprisingly, it is affecting our relationships.

This Book Building Pyramid is a tool we have developed to help you plan your research and writing. It can be applied to writing a book, or a smaller report as its aim is to ensure you can identify and articulate the essential topics for your work so that nothing important is omitted.