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How To Perfectly Choose The Best Colours For A Camino

Recently a favourite Camino author, Joanna Penn, shared a blog on how she chose her cover for her book. It was excellent, and very much in sync of how I believe we should research book covers that attract the right readers, and, how sometimes, you should follow your intuition too. I was also pleased to note that my Camino book, The Camino Ingles,  is now in the canon of book cov...

The Best Colours for a Camino

Recently a favourite Camino author, Joanna Penn, shared a blog on how she chose her cover for her book. It was excellent, and very much in sync of how I believe we should research book covers that attract the right readers, and, how sometimes, you should follow your intuition too. I was also pleased to note that my Camino book, The Camino Ingles,  is now in the canon of book cov...

Happy Chinese New Year

It’s always good to have a new year.  In Chinese tradition, the years cycle through a wheel of animals that set the tone for the year, and depending on when you were born, you have a year dedicated to you every twelve or so years. This is your year if you were born in 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, and 2023. You have good fortune, patience, and prosperity in 2023, acc...

The Holy Year of 2022 ends on Dec 31st and the Door of Mercy closes

Scraping in through the Door of MercyWhat is the Door of Mercy?

The Door of Mercy is a door to the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela that is only open in a Holy Year. In Santiago, a Holy year is when the Saint’s Feast day, July 25th, falls on a Sunday. That happened in 2021, however, the Pope declared that it would remain open for another year. This would enable pilgrims to co...

How to be a Pilgrim on The Camino (and at Home)

How to be a Pilgrim on the Camino (and at Home)

The Eight + 1 Things you Need to Know to Feed your Pilgrim Soul

What makes a successful pilgrimage isn’t distance traveled but commitment to the journey itself, and you can do this with me, whether you are walking on the Way or at home.

Hear the call and respond

The call is always mysterious, whether it was a call we desired or on...

The 30-day series: Easy Street takes you Up the Creek

Transcript 

Good morning.  here we are in a new part of the forest. And today the countdown has started. We are exactly one month from our big hike and it’s getting real now. I’m getting excited about it.  I wanted to show you me new purchases I made.  I have a new hat because this hat, the one I had, I lost it in Spain.

And this has a bit of a creek. And we’re having a truck c...

The 30-day series: Wallum Froglets and the Bike Bop

Transcript and MoreWhat Dows a Wallum Froglets have to do with a new book?

Hi and good morning. Here we are, Keith and me, on a newish trail. We haven’t done this exact bit of the trail, but today we are also trying for ten kilometres. So this is the Wallum Froglet trail and we’re going to try and do a complete circuit of this little little patch of bush, which we found here. ...

If I knew then what I know now as a bestselling author

In 2023 you will regret not starting your book today"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings" William Shakespeare

Can you believe it’s nearly the last quarter of 2022? It is time to take a step back and reflect on what you have done in the past year and what you want to do in the upcoming year. If you haven’t started on your book a...

The Camino Ingles: The Sixth Edition is Ready for Readers and Pilgrims

It’s LIVE – The sixth edition of my very first book!Amazon managed to squeeze in my Camino book update at the last minute of the feast day…My book is updated to 2022. Usually, I dont have much trouble updating the book. In fact in the run up I’ve been sharing my six-step system to relaunch.I regularly update the book, as its a guidebook cum memoir, so while I dont change my m...

Six Steps to a Sales Page that Sells your Book

The Six Steps to Sales Page Domination

This is the second step on my six steps to relaunch a book.

And yes you will surprised at how many authors do not know the Amazon book page is meant to SELL your book!  And unfortunately, other peoples books – but you have a lot of that precious real estate on the page.
It’s also a good idea to do this quite regularly, even without a re – la...