lessons learned

So, a new year has just started, and it's time to look back over what I've achieved with my short stories. I published four, two weeks apart between Thanksgiving and New Year. Publicity and promotion is hard. Most of the time I felt like I was shouting into the wind, as I had little to... Continue Reading →

7 January 2019 0

Self publishing 2 – improving

In the previous post in this series I wrote about the importance of sitting down to write. You can't succeed self publishing books if you have nothing to publish. As well as writing, and the pure drive to get words on the page, you need to be looking to improve your craft of writing. Make... Continue Reading →

27 November 2018 2

Self publishing 1: writing

This is the first in a new series of blog posts documenting how to succeed with self-publishing. They will follow along as I do them and also be my story of how I did it. I hope they will help others succeed too, as well as providing me with a record of what I've done. About me... Continue Reading →