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All my books are on #sale!

To coincide with Amazon Prime Day, I’m running a brief promo of all my ebooks and I’d be grateful for any shares, thank you. THE PRINCE’S MAN is available on all regular retailers for 99c/99p until Monday night. My ENTIRE catalogue is reduced in the Smashwords July sale! TONS of books for sale, and you […]

#Gardening in the #ScottishHighlands

Another busy week, another update on the garden. Oh, and the WIP! Yes, I’ve found a few small gaps in my schedule for writing, and I’m thrilled to say I have started work on the climax scene. That leaves under 2 chapters to go until FRAGILE is complete. I’ve loved working on it, although not […]

#SelfPublishing your book with Amazon (self publishing part 9) #IndieAuthor #KDP

Now you are ready to self publish your book, you need to make a few decision about whether you are going to be exclusive with Amazon, or go wide, and publish with a range of outlets. I will cover uploading to D2D, and from there, to other platforms, in a later post. Amazon is by […]

More #garden pics #ScottishHighlands

More pics from the garden this week as the colour continues to develop with the glorious weather we’ve had. The ceanothus is such an intense colour To either side, the escallonias are in flower Behind this, you can see the Sambuca ‘Black Lace’ with its pretty pads of pink flowers The other side of these, … … Continue reading →

Writing your Amazon book blurb (self publishing part 8) #IndieAuthor #KDP

After your cover, your blurb is your next most important sales tool: if it doesn’t capture a browser’s attention and excite them, they will move onto the next book. So, how do you do this? First, do your research Check out the blurbs of the most successful books in your genre. Strangely enough, one thing […]

Writing your Amazon book blurb (self publishing part 8) #IndieAuthor #KDP

After your cover, your blurb is your next most important sales tool: if it doesn’t capture a browser’s attention and excite them, they will move onto the next book. So, how do you do this? First, do your research Check out the blurbs of the most successful books in your genre. Strangely enough, one thing … … Continue reading →

Whatever happened to #FreeSpeech? Apparently making a truthful and accurate report, and naming the company that cold calls you, may be treated as libel.

Having been threatened with legal action by the company I now cannot name, but will refer to as ‘The Company’, over my posts describing my experiences with their approach, I have deleted the offending material, along with the hundreds of comments in support of my conclusion: that their author interview is so expensive that the […]

When do you write?

Another brief post this week as I am still working away. My inspiration is a weird change in my writing time. I’ve managed a few paragraphs at the end of the evening, after business is concluded. I’m happy enough, because these days I’ve accepted that lots of small bits of writing add up, and before … … Continue reading →

Work trip and more #garden pics

I’d planned on a more interesting post this week, but life has taken over. I’m away for an extended work trip, and I had to deal with another round of litigation threats from that company who objected to my posting about my experiences with them, because I dared name them! They’ve annoyed me enough, even […]

7 steps to formatting your paperback book (self publishing part 7) #IndieAuthor #KDP

You can, of course, just publish eBooks, but when paperbacks, and now hardbacks as well, are not so tricky to do, why not? I don’t sell a whole heap of physical books, but I certainly do sell some, and every sale is worth having. Once the book is written, and the cover designed, it’s just … … Continue reading →