Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Thank goodness it’s February: January is gone. How many resolutions did you make, and how many are still intact? I decided long ago not to make new year resolutions. It’s always the same thing: lose weight. I generally have to
My January to-do list is.. oh heck, it’s the fourth week of January already. All those marketing ideas I was going to sort out, technical things like adding X-Ray to my books, working out what new platforms to use… the
I’ve been seeing a number of the authors who have become friends over the last five years questioning whether it’s all worthwhile lately. I know what they mean because I’ve been thinking that too. If you’ve been going some time
This is something I sometimes think about, being an indie author. If you haven’t published any books, you don’t have any income from them, so you don’t need to worry about the tax implications. But if you have, then either
There are two types of giveaways on my blog and website – mine and other people’s! Other people’s are usually tied in with a book promotion – I jump in on tours organised by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and I
After the lunacy of the April A to Z Challenge, it was time for a rest. Except that I was launching Bravo Victor, my sixth book. No rest, then. After the lunacy of the A to Z Challenge and the
Another in my occasional posts on the technical side of being an author-publisher. This is a follow-up to my post on being one’s own webmaster really. Many WordPress users have been suffering from gremlins recently, and it seems that about
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: What Works…Online Marketing Symposium. I’m taking part in this event today. I’m not entirely sure what’s going to happen, but I’m hoping I’ll learn something. I think I’m supposed to post some words
The news from Smashwords that they are now shipping the books to Flipkart.com, an Indian online book retailer, made me think about the market for my books there. I do have readers in India. Judging from names and email addresses,
I thought of writing this post last month, because none of them were free in September either. Those authors that are publishing with Amazon aka Kindle Direct Publishing, and choose to put their books out through a mechanism called Kindle
I’m sure Chuck Wendig can be blamed for a lot of things, particularly my flash fiction. Ok, I’ll take responsibility for that myself, but he sets the challenges each week. No, this time it was his excellent blog on being
It’s that question that an author gets asked by publicists. I was asked it when putting The Talent Seekers forward to a site that features books on their Kindle ‘free’ days. Fill in the gap: “People who like [author/book] will
Yes, we all do them, and how many times are they the same as last year? Eat less and take more exercise seem to be my perennial ones. I ought to be a stick insect, but I’m not. This year
Launching a book is an odd experience. You work so hard for so long, editing, checking, proofing, working with your team on the cover design as well. When the moment finally came to press ‘publish’ I did so with fingers
There may still be some numbers working their way through the system, but I was very pleased with yesterday’s free offer of Lost City for Kindle readers worldwide. Like most indie authors, I’m still working out promotion, especially with Kindle