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March 18, 2019
Author Interview Series: Chris Philbrook
GJ: Can you describe your journey to publishing your first novel? CP: Have you seen the Lord of the Rings? My publishing journey closely resembles Gimli’s experience, but with about ten times as much rejection. No really. I wrote my first story on a blog for fun, had it take off, got a publishing offer, […]
March 15, 2019
My Publishing Journey: An Awesome Authory Week!
This week I have been fully engaged in being an author and it has been fantastic. My head is bursting with ideas from the London Book Fair and many of my other ideas are coming to fruition at the same time. Newsletter My first newsletter has gone out this morning! The newsletter contains a cover […]
March 14, 2019
Walkthrough: Mailing Lists
One of the most frequent pieces of advice I hear from successful indie and traditionally published authors is that setting up and growing a mailing list is an essential tool in your marketing armoury. The mailing list will provide you will direct access to people who are interested in your work and if handled with […]
March 11, 2019
Author Interview Series: Rissa Blakeley
GJ: Can you describe your journey to publishing your first novel? RB: It has been a fly by the seat of my pants experience. From the start, I had no idea what I was doing. When I published my first post-apocalyptic novel, Broken Dreams (Shattered Lives #1), in 2014, I wasn’t out to make money. […]
March 10, 2019
Author Interview Series: Kate L Mary
Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance! Her YA book, When We Were Human, was a 2015 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and a 2016 Readers’ Favourite […]
March 8, 2019
Survivor – A Quick Poll
I need your help. Which cover image for my new novella fiction / non-fiction hybrid? These are mockups. I will develop them further once I have decided which direction to go down. Type left or right in the comments. Thank you.
March 7, 2019
My Publishing Journey: Rolling Rolling
Good news for Before The End and progress on my novella, code-named Survivor, plus updates on promotions and upcoming events. Promotions & Mailing List Mailing sign up is a bit slow, I’m not doing any major promotion on it at the moment so I may have to halt my giveaway for the audiobook because there’s […]
Author Interview Series: Angel Ramon
GJ: Can you describe your journey to publishing your first novel? AR: The journey to my first novel started all the way back at Junior High School when I started to write short stories. I always had a dream of writing a book as I played so many video games in my life. The fact […]
March 6, 2019
A Conversation with Stephen Palmer
GJ: Can you describe your journey to publishing your first novel? SP: I began writing in 1986. I’d always loved creative writing at school, and was gutted to learn that it wasn’t on the ‘O’ level syllabus. My early work was utter rubbish, but I had no idea of that. (A few years ago I […]
March 4, 2019
Reading Book Signing After Action Report
On arrival I was delighted to see my posters in the window, but was quickly distracted by the size of the store. With my family in tow helping me to carry the supplies, we wound our way around the store which seemed to just get bigger. My target for the day was to sell six […]
