LifeLines Press is delighted to announce that as from March 1st they will be running a mentoring service on line for writers of non-fiction. Whether you’re setting out to write your own memoirs, or the history of your family, or even the history of your house, we can offer direct advice and help as you set about planning, writing and editing your work.

There are many quite complicated on-line writing courses available today, most of which require you to pay a course fee up front.  At LifeLines Press we will be offering you a simple fee structure so that you can ask for as little, or as much help as you need, and pay as you go.  Full details of the course will be on the website by the end of February.

LIFELINES PRESS has been delighted to design and print “George and Mildred and Me “ – the “Unauthorised Autobiography” of cartoonist and scriptwriter Brian Cooke – the man behind countless cartoons and author of some of Britain’s best loved sit-coms.

Brian Cooke started off his writing career with Round the Horn and went on to script a host of TV shows including Man About the House, Robin’s Nest and George and Mildred.

He said of LifeLines Press;
‘With LifeLines Press, it’s more a labour of love than
a business transaction. I was delighted with my limited editions.”

Rebecca de Saintonge will be one of three writers running workshops on the prestigious SwanHellenic Adriatic cruise this September. Working with her will be the award wining journalist and travel writer Dea Birkett and Jeremy Lewis, commissioning editor of The Oldie and biographer who has just completed a new book on the family of Graham Greene.

Alan Wilkinson is the ghost-writer for Mike Pannett, the former Yorkshire bobby whose memoirs are currently taking the book market by storm. Now Then, Lad (serialised in The Daily Mail and a Radio 4 Book of the Week) and You’re Coming With Me, Lad are selling like hot cakes and are all set to be runaway best-sellers in 2010. Not On My Patch, Lad is due out in July of this year, a more books are planned right into 2012. Reviewers are calling this series ‘a worthy successor to James Herriot’ and ‘a Heartbeat for the 21st century.

Last year Alan mentored Barbara Want through the grueling process of writing about her life with BBC World At One presenter Nick Clarke and his death from cancer. Why Not Me? A Tale of Love and Loss will be published by Orion in March 2010.