Its been a strange month here at Derrick Towers. To be honest it’s been a bit of a crappy one, and from one of my days out here’s a stuck in the mud photos that sums me up quite nicely. And if anyone finds my …
Read MoreSunday Update
Mood Board
A visual post for you today, for tEXt me. I know this isn’t a ‘mood board’ in the traditional sense, more reference and less mood, but I thought you might be interested in some of the things you’ll find in my new novel. I’m no …
Read MoreCountdown to Launch
Nervous times. Will anyone buy it? Is it any good? Does anybody care? Did I have a typo on page 147? Lots of questions at the minute, along with the scariness of a launch. When you get to that date when strangers may finally read …
Read MoretEXt me is out Nov 1st!
It’s quite exciting when you get to juggle. Not actually juggle, I’m useless at that, but manage the launch of a book and be mid-flow working on the next at the same time. More on Hope Is A Six Letter Word (provisional title of the …
Read MoreNext Project
I’m so excited that the next book is already well under way, though, to be honest, I may have ‘cheated’ slightly. Rather than starting from scratch, I have a first draft from about fifteen years ago, and this is the one I’m writing next. The …
Read MoreSo Much Going On!
So, where do I start? Brief hiatus on the formatting blogposts, but don’t worry, I haven’t stopped and they’ll carry on appearing very soon. The thing is, I’ve suddenly been inundated with “things”. As you’ll have seen from my most recent post, I have the …
Read MoreThe Joy of Calibre
I know a lot of people use different software, but today is about a program I use called Calibre. If you work on a Mac you may have better (paid options) but Calibre is free, tried and tested, virus-free and still regularly updated. Nope, I’m …
Read MoreThe Joys of Formatting2
I’ve already mentioned Styles, and I will again today, as I go through a couple of very practical tips for formatting in Word, starting with an invaluable one. As I mentioned before, a number of e-book conversion programmes have real problems with some forms of …
Read MoreThe Joys of Formatting1
So, content complete, its time to try and make this as readable and professional as possible, and as I’ve leant from the previous books, its a little more complicated than you might think. One of the reasons for this is the capability I want for …
Read MoreCover Reveal – tEXt me
Well here you are, the final stage, the reveal of my new cover, and I love it! It got revealed sooner than I expected as I registered isbns and set up the amazon listing, not realising it would automatically pull through the cover. I hope …
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