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My musings about the world, self publishing, living abroad, and my author career.
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...
Think Like A Writer In 10 Minutes A Day
Guest post by Katharine Grubb from 10 Minute Novelists Are you a writer? Or are you not one? Do you see yourself as a writer? Have you fallen in love with the written word? Have you ever savored a story, wondered how words came together, longed to see your name...
My ideal week: 2020 version
I find the start of a new school year to be a good time to work out how I'm going to structure my week and to come up with a vision of what my ideal week would look like. I start with the big things that can't be moved, add in all the everyday things that need to get...
Self-publishing 16: ISBNs
To isbn or not to isbn? The answer to this isn't as easy as you might think. Every book needs to have an international standard book number, as an ex-librarian (gosh that sounds weird to say!) I know it is important and ties into your book being able to be catalogued...
Valuing myself through a low FODMAP lifestyle
For the last few years, or so , I have been struggling with my digestion. And so at the end of last year I started seeing a dietician. On their advice I have been following a low fodmap exclusion diet. For those of you, probably most of you, who aren't sure what that...
Self-publishing 15: Amazon
Whether you choose to publish your ebooks exclusively to Amazon, and so join their KDP Select and make your books available through Kindle Unlimited, or you decide to make you ebooks available wide across multiple retailers, you need to learn how Amazon works. Amazon...
It’s life Jim, but not as we know it
Things here in the Netherlands have started to open up again after what has been described as an "intelligent" lockdown. Primary schools have been back for a few weeks with half sized classes, as the children did half school at school and half school at home. From...
Self-publishing 14: social media
As a self-employed entrepreneur (which is what being a self-published author is) you need to engage with your audience in order to raise their interest in your products. In this case your books. And social media is one way to do that. It is not the only way, and there...
Publishing plans & MayFaeReads
Over the first few months of this year, as well as working on my dragon book - available now for preorder - I have been working out how i work best and using that to make my plans for the next few years. Writing, editing and publishing a novel is a large undertaking,...
Self-publishing 13: running an international business
I've talked before about different vendors and distributors you may want to use to sell your books. When you do that the important thing to set up with them is to make sure you can be paid. One of the benefits of the global market for ebooks and print on demand...