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December 3, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – THE DAY AFTER
PERSONAL UPDATE After coming out of lockdown into a local situation that is pretty much the same thing, I’m pleased to report that myself and the family are still holding up well. We’re very much looking forward to Christmas time when we can see our best friends for the first time in six months. With […]
November 27, 2020
Release Day IS HERE
AFTER THE END releases today and signifies the completion of the IN THE END series You can grab your Kindle, Kindle Unlimited or paperback copy from Amazon now. You can even purchase a signed copy directly from my website! If you’ve not read any of the books in the series yet and fast-paced action and […]
November 19, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – EVERYTHING ON RED
AFTER THE END RELEASE With a week to go before the final planned full length novel in the IN THE END series is released, I made a few decisions about release week. Whilst running, which is where I have loads of time to think, I made a decision to build on my free giveaway of […]
November 12, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – ROCKET FUEL
SALES AND MARKETING For those of you who regularly follow my blog you’ll know that I planned a paid third-party promotion due to go out last Sunday. The promotion went out across two book email services as planned and I outline the results below. Operation Dawn Wolf – For this book I used the promotion […]
November 5, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – LOCKED UP AGAIN
Personal Update We’re back in lockdown again here in England, however I can’t complain. I work in a serviced office with just my wife, i.e. one household, so I don’t have to work from home. Plus I completed the bulk of my landscaping project last week, so life’s not too bad. We have to just […]
November 1, 2020
AUTHOR INTERVIEW SERIES: SETH RAIN
It’s been quite a while now since the last time I interviewed another author but when one of my amazing ARC readers told me about Seth I thought it would be a great opportunity to start the series up again. Seth Rain is the author of the Humanity Series, a dystopian sci-fi series. Seth has […]
October 30, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – CHANGING TACK
Personal Update Those regular followers of my blog will know I’ve been off work this week in order to landscape my front garden. Since Monday I’ve been hard at it and made great progress despite the rain. Yesterday we laid six tonnes of gravel but it wasn’t enough and I have another four tonnes on […]
October 22, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – NEW EDITION
WORK IN PROGRESS Last weekend I completed a review and revision of IN THE END, my first published novel. After the review I estimate I made around 300 changes, each minor and none affected the plot in any way. The key changes included replacing catch words like flinched and twisted, improving dialogue tags, a couple […]
October 15, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – OLD GROUND
Personal Update Phase one of my landscaping project has been completed on our front garden. All the weeds have been cleared and out and the ground covered temporarily in matting to stop them growing back. In a weeks time I take delivery of a pallet of sleepers and I’ll start forming the boundary to contain […]
October 8, 2020
MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY: INFECTION HAZARD
WORK IN PROGRESS I’ve implemented / approved each of the copy-edit changes to AFTER THE END, plus I’ve formatted it for paperback which, despite being a laborious task, I quite enjoy. I’m now around half way through the final read-through. I hope to have it finished over the weekend, that is if it wins the […]
