The virtual book tour (blog tour) for Zanzibar’s Rings starts today – and it’s just one week till publication. What’s in the virtual book tour? Guest posts, interviews, reviews, and various other things. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the posts people
My January to-do list
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
#IWSG for July | Is it worth it?
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
A Christmas Fair
I thought you’d like to see my effort at a book stall the other day – the Christmas Fair at our village hall. It was my first real public appearance, so I had to put most of the promotional material
#IWSG The Ups and Downs of an Insecure Writer
I think writing a book is the easy bit. Then comes editing. And re-editing after your editor has been through your carefully edited version. And then you have getting it ready for publication, which turns out more complicated than you think, after
Watch out for Read Tuesday
Read Tuesday is on Tuesday 9th December 2014 It’s a Black Friday type of sales event, but just for books. It will be a great opportunity to buy and gift books at amazing sales prices. It will also be a
Read an Ebook Week 2014
March 2nd to 8th is Read an EBook Week and once again I’m offering some of my ebooks free and at ridiculous discounts. Yes, I’d like you to read and review my books, and encourage others to buy them. But
Thoughts on the launch of the trilogy
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