G.J. Stevens's Blog, page 19

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY: BOOM

PERSONAL UPDATE I’m going to the pub tomorrow!! For this first time since I can’t remember I’m actually going to the pub and having some drinks with my best friends on Saturday. Admittedly we have to drink outside and there’s rain on the forecast and it’s only 3 hours during the afternoon, but still I’m […]

AUTHOR INTERVIEW SERIES: BAILEIGH HIGGINS

It’s been a little while since I last posted an interview but they return with an update to an interview I last posted in 2019 of fellow apocalyptic author and friend, Baileigh Higgins. South African writer and coffee addict, Baileigh Higgins, lives in the Free State with hubby and best friend Brendan and loves nothing […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – EVENTFUL

Personal Update This last two weeks have been very busy, hence I skipped a blog post, but following three days of hard work I managed to finish the complete refurbishment of our girl’s bedroom. I had last Monday off with my wife and had a lovely relaxing day. The weather is improving here so hopefully […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – TIME MACHINE PLEASE

It’s a week now until my first event of the year and signs are looking very good that it will be going ahead. I can’t wait to get out there and meet people again, and hopefully some of them will buy my books. In particular I’m looking forward to seeing how my novellas fair! More […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – REVIEWS NEEDED

PERSONAL UPDATE It’s a bank holiday weekend in the UK, so it means 4 days off from the daily grind! I’ve got quite a bit to do around the house and we’re get out for some weather-dependant walks, but hopefully I’ll get time to do some writing work as well. Everything is pretty rosey right […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – FREE MONEY

PERSONAL UPDATE What is there to update? Well, we had a third lockdown party at the weekend, this time for my eldest daughter’s seventeenth birthday. It was a great evening that obviously would have been made better by more people. Oh the parties when we get out of this are going to be amazing! WORK […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – THE RESULTS ARE IN

Email Subscribers I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can develop my email mailing list so I can best serve the subscribers to retain their interest and make the most of them when it comes to future sales. I know that I certainly want to improve the frequency of emailing, going from an ad-hoc […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SINGING IS BAD

PERSONAL UPDATE Everything remains much the same. The family are keeping each other going. The children are all back to school and so normality is slowly creeping back in. WHAT’S IN A SONG? Last week I had what I’m going to call a leaning experience. After sending over the manuscript for CAPITAL ACTION to my […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SOLD SHORT

Personal Update Not much has changed this week. I’m fine and so are the family. We’re all looking forward to the children going back to school! WORK IN PROGRESS Capital Action – The large print run of booklet style paperbacks arrived last week and I found that because of the print run size, they were […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – STORAGE WARS

With the countdown to the end of lockdown in the UK started, I’m remaining optimistic that 2021 will be great year. The timetable has meant that it is very likely that the first two author events (end of March and early April) will be cancelled but the beginning of May event should be on. WORK […]