Ask the Author: James Minter
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James Minter
Why my Amazon parcel turned up 20 miles away from my address and they said it had been delivered...
James Minter
Humour is my bag. Have you an ebook so I can read and review it?
James Minter
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James Minter
Shana, I've been very remiss in not answering the question you posed about school visits. At present I've done plenty of adult presentations (I also right humour for teh inner child in all of us) but I've not started standing up in front of 30+ 8 year olds - horror! There are 3 UK authors ho do regular school visits and I'm trawling their blogs for hints, tips and general advice. Having been a teacher of 16+ kids I know its so easy to over prepare, and practice/experience will let me hone my performance but until that time, I'm not really sure what I doing. My kids books have been recorded as audio books and my narrator has done a fantastic job. If all else fails I turn on hte recording - with 8 books in the series and each about 1h 15 minutes long - I'll be able to entertain a group from breakfast to supper time - LOL
Apologies again for not answering sooner - been too busy enjoying the summer!
Apologies again for not answering sooner - been too busy enjoying the summer!
James Minter
My children's books are aimed at 8 to 11 yr olds. These children tend to like books as opposed to ebooks, as do their schools and libraries. I believe its essential to press-the-flesh with this reader age group and book launches, meet-the-author events, school readings, library appearances are all part of that. I'm just planning a whole bunch of live UK events for November around anti-bullying month.
Good luck with your books - if you find a silver bullet to book marketing I'd love to hear about it.
Good luck with your books - if you find a silver bullet to book marketing I'd love to hear about it.
James Minter
Anne, I've not looked back - I'll have 12 books out by the end of this year - children's and adults (English Humour) and having a great time in the process ...
James Minter
I reread the last scene or scenes I wrote and that will generate ideas as to where to go next. If I'm really stuck (not often happens) I go back to my character's profiles and look at their objectives - who do they want to be or achieve. I also create a 'Where Are We Now' sheet which summarizes the characters journey thus far in the story. That immediately suggests what needs to happen next ...
James Minter
Your relationship with your characters - watching them play out a story on the page and having little control of what they get up to and when.
They are real individuals - well to me they are. But you must not allow them to bully you ...
In your head you can go anywhere at anytime. It's fantastic ...
They are real individuals - well to me they are. But you must not allow them to bully you ...
In your head you can go anywhere at anytime. It's fantastic ...
James Minter
Writing to sell books is not to be rushed, its not going to happen overnight – fiction writings is a long-term project requiring you to be tenacious, committed and not rocked by a lack of instant success. Quantity and quality are important. An editor is a must for both structural and copy edits. And off-line marketing is equally if not more important than on-line. Don't spend all your time on Twitter / Facebook etc. write - revise - edit ...
James Minter
A series of books for 8 to 12 year old children to help them make sense of the world they are growing up in. There are 8 titles in all. The first Billy's Tenth Birthday is available from Amazon from mid-August'14. The other 7 in the series are in preparation ...
James Minter
I've written technical computer manuals and training materials for many years. Fiction was a completely new and very different kettle of fish. The Hole Opportunity was my first book and is based on a very small snippet of a bedtime story my mother told me nearly sixty years ago. The idea laid dormant until I had a 3 week holiday. I took up a pen, yes pen and wrote 40,000 words before I put it down again ...
James Minter
A Tunnel is Only a Hole on its Side - English humour farce, is the second book in the Hole Trilogy. From writing the first book - The Hole Opportunity - my characters still had a long way to go to change their way of life. Without a bigger challenge they weren't going to get there.
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