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December 19, 2012
Editing Process Part 1: Choosing an Editor
The following is part one of a guest post from my editor, Brenda Erricheillo.
From the outside, the editing process can be quite intimidating. When you send your book out into the world, it’s hard to tell how your friends will react to it, let alone a professional editor. Plus, you’re sending out your manuscript. You’ve been working on this thing for months, maybe years, and now you have to send it to a stranger? So they can change it? It’s no wonder the revision process is met with such disma...
December 14, 2012
Writing in 2013: A Sneak-Peek of What’s Next…
I’ll level with you: I’m a little clueless as to what to write here. I’d planned an end of year post for quite some time, but I pretty much covered things in a series of posts, from the lessons I’ve learned to my favourite music releases. To cut a long story short, 2012 has been a good year. A very good year.
So, I’ve talked about 2012 a lot before.Enough about 2012! What are you writing in 2013?I hear you cry. Yes, it’s been a great year, and sure, it’s been twelve months of immense progress,...
December 12, 2012
2012 in Review: Best Albums of 2012
True fact — I wrote an albums of 2012 post last week but stupidly lost it. Thanks, WordPress autosave. Thanks a bunch.
Anyway… those who have followed my writing journey from its origins will be aware that in a previous life, I was amusic blogger. I wrote for a few websites as well as a portfolio of my own, and I loved doing what I did. However, as the creative writing and blogging became more serious, I found it difficult to juggle responsibilities, so was forced to cut my music blogging shor...
December 7, 2012
Five Writing Lessons I Learned in 2012
As I noted the other day, 2012 has been a pretty big year for me. I’ve not only finished a book, but had it edited, had a nice cover designed, published it myself, and sold copies. That’s, like, a few dreams in one.
But 2012 has not been a year without writing lessons. And I’m not talking school lessons — although I do study at university and enjoy my degree, as it were. I’m talking about Writing Lessons with a capital ‘W’ and ‘L’. Those big life-changing flashes of light. Y’know, the ‘and the...
December 4, 2012
2012 in Review: Top Writing Influencers of 2012
I’m a regular reader over at Wise, Ink, and I recently stumbled upon a piece where they suggest ten year-end author blog post ideas. What better than to run with all ten and give them a shot in some sort of Christmas/end-of-year special?
2012 has been the year where things changed for me. Back in June, I had an 85,000 word first draft of What We Saw complete, but I really didn’t know what to do with it. A friend and colleague of mine, Stuart Meczes, had recently independently published his deb...
December 3, 2012
What We Saw – Ebook and Paperback Now Available!
I’m delighted to announce that What We Saw, my debut novel, is now available over at Amazon in eBook and paperback forms, a few days earlier than planned.
Full purchase details are below. Also, find out how you can win a $25/£20 Amazon gift voucher in time for Christmas.
Kindle edition:
Buy onAmazon.com – $2.99(Special launch price)
Buy onAmazon UK – £1.99(Special launch price)
Paperback edition:
Here are a few details about the book:
‘If you stumbled...
November 30, 2012
Twitter for Authors: Is It Necessary? And, What We Saw Update
Firstly, I’d just like to put it out there that ‘necessary’ is the one word I struggle with most in the English language. I just can’t get my head around the little bugger, no matter how much I’ve tried, so I think I deserve something of an applause for being daring enough to put it in my blog post title.
Okay, so I’m roughly half a year into my blogging and writing career and I’ve had a lot of changing views surrounding Twitter for authors, mostly due to the influence of others. I wrote some...
November 28, 2012
Simon and Schuster: Vanity Publishing Disguised as Self-Publishing
Note: UpdatedWhat We Saw launch details at the bottom, if publishing talk ain’t your thing.
Even if you are only a passing follower in publishing trends, you’ll have seen the latest major piece of news: Simon & Schuster haveopened a ‘self-publishing’ service, attempting to tap into what is evidently a booming market of independent fiction.
Alarm bells always ring when publishers launch these companies. Penguin’s massive acquisition of Author Solutions and their premium rate ‘steps to success’ p...
November 23, 2012
Ebook Pricing: The Bloody Big Dilemma
In my five months of blogging and scouring other writing blogs, I’ve seen a lot of talk surrounding the topic of eBook pricing. It seems to be that one topic us authors simply can’t avoid doing a blog post about, simply because it’s still so up in the air that literally everyone has a different opinion of things.
Where do I stand on eBook pricing? Well, I don’t think it’s quite as easy as just answering the question like that. In an ideal world, we’d price our eBooks at the publisher’s standar...
November 21, 2012
What We Saw Proof Copies: Proudest Moment of My Life…
This blog post might be short. Then again, it might waffle on. I’m not so sure yet, because I’m writing it as my hands still shake with excitement and an overwhelming sense of pride after receiving the physical proof copies of What We Saw.
I’ll talk about the process and all that another day. Today isn’t the day for a guide. I just want you all to know how amazing this emotion is. I want any aspiring writers with dreams of holding a copy of their book one day to know just how indescribable the...
