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MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – LEAP

ADVERTISING DIARY Spurred on by success of a fellow author in my genre I have decided to give Facebook ads another try. The plan is to see if I can make a £5 per day advertising campaign on Facebook for my zombie books generate a profit, or at least pay for itself. I’ve chosen the […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – ANOTHER REVEAL

WORK IN PROGRESS The paperback for the entire first season of Stopping Power is now officially out and I’ve had some sales! I received author copies from Amazon in record time , just two days, which means I have them for my next event in two weeks time. I don’t expect them to be big […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – MARK IT

Wow it’s been a busy week. I finished my publishing book last Friday and it’s been with my editor for about a week. I’m it expecting it back in about a month which means it’s time to let you all know the title! ‘YOUR BOOK WON’T SELL ITSELF – An introduction to writing, publishing and […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – AMBITION

STOPPING POWER With the final episode out last week I now have the paperback version of the entire series in my hands. I’ve yet to run through it for proofing but it looks awesome and is pretty thick. I love a thick book. The audio production is just about getting underway, as is the production […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – IN MY HANDS

STOPPING POWER The final episode is out today on Kindle!! Whoop Whoop. That’s it. Season one officially done. Yes it’s a little sad but I’m so heavily into another project I’ll get by, and of course the production of the different release versions continue. It’s great to see all of the A6 paperbacks together. Here’s […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – AUDIO EXPERIMENT

STOPPING POWER With fourteen episodes out on Kindle and the last on pre-order for release next Friday, it’s a great feeling to be at the end of the writing phase of the project, but the work doesn’t stop there. The cover design for the complete series in one volume, which I’ll now refer to as […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – I’LL DO THE TALKING

WORK IN PROGRESS STOPPING POWER – Episode 14 is out today, and with episode 15 back from my editor, I was pleased to hear her great feedback on the ending. It’s now been formatted and off to the printer. I’ll set it ready for pre-order this weekend. I’ve spent an hour or so putting each […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – WAHOO!

On Sunday I managed to complete episode fifteen and the last in the STOPPING POWER series. It should be back from the editor within a week! Wahoo! It feels odd to have completed something that has taken over the last six months of my life, but I’m already well into the next project. This week […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – LUCKY FOR SOME

WORK IN PROGRESS Episode 13 should have released today but I somehow set it for two weeks time. I’m not surprise I got in a muddle as there is a lot consider. I now have the episode releasing on Sunday, which is the earliest day I could bring it forward. The second draft of the […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – LIMIT

WORK IN PROGRESS With a lot of extra work over the weekend and in the evenings, and because of the amount of time I’d already put into it, I managed to get episode 14 out to my editor this week which means I now have a maximum of three weeks to get the final episode […]