Sep 27, 2014 | My friends' Guest Posts, Publishing
Cindy Bates is a freelance writer and blogger. She has kindly shared with me this guest post, on some mistakes made by new new authors. Aaand… take it Cindy! 🙂 The 10 Biggest Mistakes New Authors Make New authors are going to make newbie mistakes–it is...
Aug 31, 2014 | Publishing, Writing
Essay Mama is an unusual site, providing students with essays. Even more unusual is the fact that they produced a lovely infographic on Tolkien, with some tips they gleamed from his correspondence. Enjoy! Pearseus: Rise of the Prince will be on sale throughout...
Aug 17, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
A month ago, I published Mad Water, the third book in my epic fantasy series Pearseus. I had announced the imminent publication on social media and to my friends. A lot of them asked me if they could pre-order the book. “I’m afraid Amazon doesn’t...
Jun 29, 2014 | Marketing, My Guest posts, Publishing, Writing
This post was inspired by the Writers’ Digest blog column 7 things I’ve learnt so far and written as a guest post for Fabulosity Reads. The column features various authors, who list 7 things they have learnt so far, regarding writing, editing, inspiration, promotion...
Jun 27, 2014 | Publishing
An excellent post by Dylan Hearn! He beat me to it, too; I had in mind to write a similar post, comparing the music industry to publishing, but he made everything single point I wanted to! All I can do now is reblog… 🙂
Jun 15, 2014 | Publishing
You may remember the Guardian from my recent Self-publishing: Revolutionary or Reactionary? post. On Friday, the newspaper posted a new post, titled Self-publishing boom lifts sales by 79% in a year. Subtitled “18m titles bought by readers in 2013, to a value...
Jun 11, 2014 | Interviews Features and Reviews, Marketing, Publishing
For those unfamiliar with Hugh Howey, he’s a very successful hybrid author who’s been behind the Author Earnings revolution – the publication of estimates on the financial side of Indie publishing. His main contribution was to help find reliable data on the...
Jun 10, 2014 | Publishing
Continuing my thoughts on Hachette vs. Amazon, I read a post on The Guardian’s blog, called “Self-publishing is not revolutionary, it’s reactionary.” As the title suggests, the main point the post makes is that, despite what people think, self-publishing is, in fact,...
Jun 8, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing, Writing
Continuing this weekend’s special , I’m concluding yesterday’s post on 4 Simple Self-Publishing Tips with 4 More Self-publishing tips! The inspiration for this second installment came to me while reading Kristen Lamb’s blog and her blog post 5...
