Dear Reader
2016 is a big year for literary anniversaries – 200 years since the birth of Charlotte Brontë, 150 since the birth of Beatrix Potter and 100 since Roald Dahl’s, not forgetting, of course, the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. But let’s not look to the past. Let’s start the year all fired up and full of ambition. In 2116, will they be celebrating the 100th anniversary of your book? Or mine? Or that landmark year when thousands of new authors broke through, topped all the charts and toppled the literati? If we don’t try, we’ll never know!