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My musings about the world, self publishing, living abroad, and my author career.
Self-publishing 21: pricing
For the next post in my series on self-publishing I am talking about pricing. I will be looking solely at purchase price and will not be considering Kindle Unlimited or methods for maximising page reads. I am a wide author and so page reads are not something I'm...
deja vu
A new year, a new start, and a new lockdown? It feels like we've already done this.Shouldn't we be further on? And yet we are back home schooling, with limited chances to see anyone beyond the four of us, and most shops shut. Now, while I understand and completely...
Annual review 2020
A year ago I set myself the target to publish at least my dragon shifter book this year. I also choose Focus as my word of the year, and wanted especially to apply that to routines, words, clearing, and togetherness. Well, this year was not the year that most of us...
Dragon Shift – about to publish!
Dragon Shift - the first book in my epic fantasy series about shifters, magic and finding yourself - is about to publish. So as an exclusive for my blog readers, here is the first chapter. Chapter One Music chased itself through the trees. Sounds of a flute and a...
Self-publishing 20: copyright
Copyright is a complicated subject, and this shouldn't be taken as legal advice. There have been a few high shock stories making the rounds of indie authors where books have been plagiarised and put for sale by someone else. For many the idea of their work being...
More thoughts from abroad
The year is coming to a close and on a day to day basis the coronavirus isn't affecting us much anymore (touch wood). We have learnt to live with the restrictions and mostly remember to wear masks when we go shopping. Schools are still open and the amazing technology...
self-publishing 19: front & back matter
Your front and back matter are all the pages you put in your book that aren't the text of the book itself. These are different for ebooks and printed books, so you need different versions of them for each type of format you are creating. At the front of the book you...
A new look!
If you are a regular reader then you will no doubt have noticed that I have updated the theme on my blog, so that it is a bit sleeker. It is the latest in a series of steps to make my blog more of a website with a blog attached, as I have more static content and as I...
Self publishing 18: formatting
For my next instalment of this series on self-publishing I am going to look at formatting. Once you have your manuscript finished, edited, proof-read and polished to perfection you then need to make it look as good as it can for publishing. And you need to choose if...
Today is the day!
Realms of Fae and Shadow is live! This book contains eight stories, one by me, which all lead into full fae series. I have read all of the other stories and thoroughly enjoyed them. I've also read some of the later books, those which are published already, and I am...
Self-publishing 17: Blurbs & cover copy
For the next instalment of my series on self-publishing here is a short post on book blurbs. Once you are preparing to upload your manuscript and sell it you need to have a blurb - this is the few paragraphs of text that show on the book page on each retailer and give...
New books coming soon!
If you've been following me on social media you will have seen hints that I have been working on a series about fae. And earlier in the year I mentioned it in my post on my publishing plans for the year I am now pleased to announce that the first book in the Lost...