G.J. Stevens's Blog, page 7

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – THE PRIDE

It’s been a warm one this week after a wonderfully quiet weekend spent with the family where we ate BBQ and watched the lionesses do us proud despite not going quiet as far as we all wished. Outside of the day job and writing, it’s been about preparing for our eldest to fly the nest, […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – COVERED

It’s never fun coming back to the day job after some time off, but it’s been a busy week which keeps my mind on track. The winning ways of the Lionesses have also helped to distract me from real life. I hope they can get the job done in the final on Sunday! WORK IN […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – UNTITLED

We survived camping without getting too wet, in fact I even caught a decent tan. I finished the read through for THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE just before we left for the campsite in Dorset and rather than taking a book with me to read in the quiet moments, I took along the draft of the […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – ALREADY

Friday has come around very quickly with being on leave from the day job. We’ve had a lovely three days away at Alton Towers, a theme park in the West Midlands, UK. Tomorrow we’re off for our second adventure, this time it’s camping for a few nights and we just have to hope that the […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SHAME

WORK IN PROGRESS I’ve finally finished running through THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE with ProWritingAid and I’ve cut out 5,000 words which is 5% of the manuscript. I’m now doing the final read through and I’m 10% of the way through. I’m on leave from tomorrow for two weeks and, although I’ll be very busy having […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – THE OTHER SIDE

EVENTS This week the majority of my events have been confirmed for the 2024, including a double header at Salisbury which my wife will join me for and we’ll be staying in hotel. Depending on how the Comic Con goes in October, I may add some more to the roll. On Saturday I will be […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – BOMB

MARKETING AND PROMOTION Last week I mentioned my frustration that my ads weren’t performing and so I decided to change tack and advertise the free novella reader magnet for the IN THE END series and therefore my mailing list. Well, along with getting 75 new subscriptions, my page reads and sales are up too, some […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – URGH!

This week has been very frustrating because my Facebook ad have stopped converting and nothing I have done has worked. I’ve checked the copy, the link, made sure there’s nothing wrong with my Amazon pages and I can’t find any reason. So now I’ve changed tack and instead of advertising the series and taking them […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – OXFORD

Last weekend I was checking replies to a question I’d posed to a Facebook group for UK horror authors about what had been the most successful marketing action they’d undertaken and I spotted a message about BBC Upload. The author told me it was a service where any creative can submit examples of their content […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – TAPERED

WORK IN PROGRESS STOPPING POWER audio is now in the distribution phase and should start appearing with retailers in 3-5 days, or up to 45 days for Audible. When it’s available in Audible that’s when I’ll start promoting it. The edit for THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE seems to be taking a lot of time but […]