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Month: February 2022

What I Did On My Week Off

So, a week off work and very little what I hoped to do actually done, though I did manage a research trip to Llangollen. I’m at one of those stages when there are so many writing tasks I feel I should be doing that it’s …

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Hope is a Six Letter Word, Writing, Writing ProcessFebruary 26, 2022February 26, 2022 By Kit Derrick

Finished!

Phew. I really wanted to use my time off to complete Hope Is A Six Letter Word, and we’re there, after several days of intense corrections from my proofer, and another ‘Read Aloud’ edit (using the inbuilt functionality of Word) which I can’t recommend enough. …

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Hope is a Six Letter Word, Novel, WritingFebruary 20, 2022February 20, 2022 By Kit Derrick

Proudly announcing the next cover!

We got there! The next stage of the process foe the cover was some tweaking and hard decisions, and we narrowed down to a new font, two title options, and either in red, orange and purple, which I duly sent to trusted friends and colleagues …

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Cover, Hope is a Six Letter Word, Novel, Writing ProcessFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022 By Kit Derrick

I ‘Hope’ You Like My Cover

So I’m back to the process of putting together the pre-release info for my next book, Hope Is A Six Letter Word (provisional release date April 15th), hence the awful pun in the post title. I have my isbn assigned now, so it can start …

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Cover, Design, Hope is a Six Letter Word, Novel, Writing ProcessFebruary 11, 2022February 11, 2022 By Kit Derrick

Having a Grumpy Author Day

Slightly grumpy at the minute as, cards on the table, sales of all three books seem to have disappeared completely in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d have a bit of a self-pitying moan. Hey, why not right, and being frank, barely …

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February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 By Kit Derrick

Don’t Look For Readers, Let Them Find You

This is another post after reading How to Market a Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08TZJQ1FB/ . I discovered lots of really common sense ideas in this book, not complex or World-changing, but blindingly obvious when you think about them in retrospect.  The title of this post is the …

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marketing, Writing ProcessFebruary 4, 2022February 4, 2022 By Kit Derrick

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