Iain Broome

@iainbroome.com

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Freelance content designer currently working with NHS England. Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Sender of newsletters. 💌 Freelance work: verymeta.com Fiction: iainbroome.com Blog and newsletter: clearlanguage.club

Iain Broome sat on the floor outside a Pyreneean house. He is wearing headphones and cap, and has a laptop on his knees. Inside the house is in darkness, but the outside is lit by a lone street lamp.
Iain’s hand holding The Wax Child by Olga Ravn. Cover features a black and white framed image of a woman in a black dress. Her face is obscured by a red and yellow shape that looks a bit like… fire? Beyond the book, a sunny Sheffield garden and a sneaky glimpse of Iain’s compression stockings.
Screengrab of what the Plain English Club website may look like as a link blog. Shows a three-column layout: menu on the left, a stream of blog posts in the middle, and a sign up form and tags on the right.
Iain Broome selfie with a rocky trail behind, lovely thick bracken either side, with some woods in the distance and a glimpse of Sheffield beyond that. Iain is wearing a cycling helmet, a too-expensive thermal jacket and the grimace of a man who may be better served inside and out of the cold.
Iain taking a selfie, squinting in the low evening sun, wearing a black cycling helmet. Behind him are the rolling green hills of Burbage Valley, a slightly rocky trail in the foreground surrounded by grass.
Quote from Lauren Groff that reads: "I think writer's block is an umbrella term for a series of very different pains. There's the biggest one, the writer's block that comes from a fear of imperfection, which can be combatted by a writer carefully training herself to let her work be messy and impermanent. I write all first three or four drafts longhand, and usually end up putting them away and starting over without even rereading them. I embrace the shitty first draft and wait until I have a very firm sense of the story before I even think about putting it on the computer, because the typeface looks too permanent and unchangeable to my eyes. Have the humility to know that your work is always flexible, that it can always be bettered."
Circus letter S art print on blue background in a framed mockup.
Close up of envelope. A first class stamp to the right with a stamped sentenced to the left that reads ‘Congratulations, Rory McIlroy on completing your career Grand Slam!’
Sign nailed to a fence with an Anglesey Towing crest in the centre. On the right of the crest is a list of services with a standard left-aligned bullet point style. On the left of the crest, however, is a magnificent right-aligned list of services that has the bullets on the right of the individual items.
Rich Wells sitting on a high stool giving a talk at Creative Mornings Sheffield. Next to him is an equally tall desk with a monitor displaying his slides. On the screen is a photo of covered-up graffiti, an act that in itself creates its own kind of art. A Creative Morning Sheffield sign is propped up on a shelf that sits above some cushioned seating and to the right, large windows let the light in on a gorgeous, sunny winter's day.
Two small children from the back standing watching TV, dressed differently but clearly indentical twins. One has his arm around the other, but kinda inside his T shirt having entered through the neck hole. Very cute.
Iain has a big smile and is riding his lovely bike on a rocky trail above Stanage Edge in the Peak District. Behind him, fog is partially covering a wide, hilly landscape mostly covered in thick, dark brown bracken.
Iain in the foreground wearing a black cycling jersey and a big frown. Behind him, his lovely green and yellow bike is leaning against a wall. The rear tyre is off and leaning against the frame of the bike. On top of the wall is a beige cycling jacket and a collection of sorry bike repair equipment. There are soggy brown leaves all over the ground and the opening to a water source of some kind behind the wall.
Three silhouette, one Iain holding a microphone and two cyclists. One cyclist is carrying their bike while the other has theirs propped against a fence post. Behind them is low cloud hovering over a valley in the Pyrenees mountains, two peaks poking out above.
Iain half-smiling while wearing winter cycling jacket and black helmet with a pink cap just peaking out the front. Rolling hill of Burbage Valley covered in brown bracken behind him. A section of rocky bridle way is visible just over his shoulder.
Screenshot of the 'New Post' button used to create new posts on Bluesky.