Tackling the uncomfortable ask

Reaching out is essential. Here’s how to make it feel a little easier.

Authors have to do a lot of uncomfortable asks – from asking agents and publishers to read their books, to contacting authors for endorsements, to requesting favours from all sorts of people. I can’t imagine it’s easy for many of us – particularly those of us who don’t want to be a ‘nuisance’ or put anyone out, and therefore tend to overthink the proces…