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Writing your Amazon book blurb (self publishing part 8) #IndieAuthor #KDP
After your cover, your blurb is your next most important sales tool: if it doesn’t capture a browser’s attention and excite them, they will move onto the next book. So, how do you do this? First, do your research Check out the blurbs of the most successful books in your genre. Strangely enough, one thing […]
Whatever happened to #FreeSpeech? Apparently making a truthful and accurate report, and naming the company that cold calls you, may be treated as libel.
Having been threatened with legal action by the company I now cannot name, but will refer to as ‘The Company’, over my posts describing my experiences with their approach, I have deleted the offending material, along with the hundreds of comments in support of my conclusion: that their author interview is so expensive that the […]
Writers, how do you manage your time? Have you discovered the Pomodoro technique? #TimeManagement #amwriting
As time is still tricky to manage, and writing is a squeeze to fit in, I thought I would once again reblog an old post – a very relevant one on finding time to write! How the Pomodoro Technique revolutionised my ability to write I am not a full time writer. Like a lot of […]
Do your characters take over? #AmWriting #WritingProcess
This topic comes to the forefront of my mind every time someone mentions ‘writing process’. Having covered it before, this post is a mash up of a previous one, and more recent thoughts in the light of several more books under my belt. If you are like me, your process changes and develops with each […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears – Part 3
While it is definitely advisable to achieve a fair degree of knowledge of writing and publishing before you go ahead, if you are a writer who NEVER feels like your work is either good enough, or ready enough, then I advocate taking Hugh Laurie’s advice. There are so many ways you can self-sabotage your writing career, and […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears – Part 2 #Reblog
Here is Part 2 of my 3 part series on how my knowledge of sports psychology can be used in your writing life. In Part 1 of this series, which you can find here, I talked about the concept of POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE, a phrase much used in my normal working field of sports coaching, […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears (Part 1) #Reblog
I’ve been blogging for over a decade now, and I think it’s time to share some of my evergreen posts that are still as relevant today, but will be new to many of those of you who have come across my blog in more recent years. So, here goes… I just finished reading an issue […]
Traditional or Indie publishing – which is right for you?
I’m in the process of giving my blog a spring clean, deleting old, out-of-date posts and generally tidying up, and I thought it would be fun to share this, my very first post! I wrote this back in 2013, prior to self-publishing my first novel. Have my opinions changed since then? Take a look, and […]
Edinburgh should be on everybody’s bucket list #holiday
I’ve been hanging onto this one for a while – since May, in fact, as there has been so much else going on, but I felt it was about time to start sharing my visit to this amazing city. I’m not, by nature, a city lover. Holidays, for me, are usually about getting out into […]
#BookReview – A HEAVEN FOR TOASTERS by Nicholas C.Rossis #SF
Back with yet another review – this one a recently released novel by fellow blogger Nicholas C. Rossis. Blurb A science fiction crime adventure with plenty of humour and romance A souvlaki and some sun. That is all Detective Mika Pensive wanted from her fun weekend away on the Greek islands. Instead, she finds herself […]
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