Brian Stephens's Blog, page 8

Who Are You Writing For?

To me this seems like a fairly obvious question to ask when planning on writing  a new book. Coming from a technical background involving new product development, the very first thing considered before embarking on a new development is primarily whether there is a market for the product. Then secondly what are the product requirements
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Author Spotlight – Markham Turner

Markham Turner is a native New Zealander and has written 3 novels, to date, all published as ebooks via Moulin Publications. The books are available through a number of different distributors in several different formats. Markham writes for the fiction genre and two of his books come under the action-adventure category. He has also written
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Need a Really Effective Book Description? – Read On

One of the useful aspects of being registered as a KDP publisher is that every now and then you get sent the KDP newsletter and are invited to read some very useful articles. This week was no exception and one of the topics covered was the extremely important ‘how to write an effective book description’. Why it
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Why Do Some Books Sell & Others Don’t?

I am not going to claim to know all the answers, but I might know a man that does. I have been reading Mark Coker’s (Smashwords) sales analysis of the books published on his site, and it makes very interesting reading.  Of course there are no hard and fast ‘do this and it will sell’
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Jersey’s Secret Assassin – World War 3 Looms As Sniper Stalks Political Leaders

Coming Soon – Jersey’s Secret Assassin – an Action, Adventure & Suspense Novel by Eddie Kirkup A story that starts in Jersey in the Channel Islands and is concluded in Cyprus, another island, but this time in the Mediterranean, a little nearer the maelstrom that is the Middle East. One connection between them is that two
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Author Spotlight – Susannah Carlton

Like many of the authors published by Moulin Publications via eBook Issues, Susannah Carlton has led an interesting and varied life not only as a British female writer, but also as a teacher and a counsellor specialising in domestic violence. You will see from her Amazon Profile that she has worked in both England and Sweden  and
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Should Amazon Have Adopted the ePub?

What a  kerfuffle, Amazon have moved over to their new KF8 format for all the newer Kindle Fire  devices and the new Paperwhite Kindle devices currently being sold. Basically this means that any new Kindle released in the future will support the KF8 format, which in truth is a little like, but not exactly the same
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Author Spotlight – Samantha Ford

Having lived a truly cosmopolitan lifestyle, it is hardly surprising that Samantha Ford didn’t settle for life in the humdrum environment of English suburbia. No instead she lives and works in Africa, in the Safari industry to be precise, and spends her life mingling with the rich and famous. She has become an author who
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How to Transfer eBooks to Kindle

One of the simplest ways to transfer an ebook to a Kindle is to use a conversion program and save the file in a .mobi format. One of the best conversion programs available, as a free download, is the Calibre Program Calibre will handle many different ebook formats and once you have added a book to
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Tuscan Cats get into Mischief

The Naughty Italian Cats Go on Holiday This is the second in the series of popular childrens books by Laura Graham describing the adventures of the dancing, talking cats from Tuscany. The cats take charge as they spend a mischievous holiday in the sun at the country residence of their English mama and Italian babbo
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