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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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. …
Read MoreProudly 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 …
Read MoreI ‘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 …
Read MoreHaving 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 …
Read MoreDon’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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