The release date for Hope Is A Six Letter Word draws near and I’d girding my loins (legal in your own home) for a few sales, and wondering what reviewers might say. I’m pleased to report that the wonderful Broadhursts of Southport will be stocking …
Read MoreNow Available – Everywhere
Very pleased to announce that as the book wholesalers Gardners Books are now carrying my titles, you should be able to order, where they aren’t already in stock, from your local bookshop as well as online. Please do support your local bookshops where you can, …
Read MoreProof Copy of Hope
So, the first proof of Hope Is A Six Letter Word arrived, really quickly in fact, and as this is in my writing process series, I’ll stop right there and point out how important it is for authors to pay close attention to these. It …
Read MoreIt’s Alive!
Very excited that the files and cover now uploaded to Amazon for Hope Is A Six Letter Word. As is usual, and as this covers the publishing journey there were a couple of glitches. For some unknown reason, I still haven’t worked out why, the …
Read MoreWhat 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 …
Read MoreFinished!
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 MoreCover Time Again
So as my proofer is kindly correcting all my mistakes for the next book, Hope Is A Six Letter Word, my lovely designers (http://blushcreate.com/) have sent me ideas for the next cover. They sent me fifteen rough ideas for direction, based on some keywords about …
Read MoreDon’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
I’m going to post a couple of linked blogs over the next weeks about marketing of books, with particular reference to one I read on the subject, by Reedsy, called aptly enough, How to Market a Book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08TZJQ1FB/ ). Let me say first off, I …
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