One of the things an independent author has to do is to promote one’s own books. I’m sure authors with agents and publishing houses have to put in a lot of work on this too, but they probably have people
A Facebook Advert
Last night on UK tv there was a very interesting documentary on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. I was particularly interested in the rationale behind Facebook, and the privacy versus advertising issues. If you Like a product, then the product owner
What I learnt in April
This post summarises a lot of thoughts in April, as I didnt want to interfere with the A to Z Challenge. It was a busy month – the Challenge itself, the promotion to visitors to the site who in turn
Learning from the first free days
It’s been a hectic week. In the days leading up to the free days for Pirates on Amazon I followed lots of advice and emailed people, tweeted websites and signed up for exposure on literary, read and review and kindle
Princelings makes progress
Princelings of the East has now been downloaded 22 times on Smashwords (including 3 by me, in different formats to check), all in its first week. All of those are samples rather than purchases but I hope they’ll want to