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Giveaway

squint and you’ll see an angel

This ‘spectacular work of fiction’ (made that quote up myself) is featuring in a Goodreads Giveaway. Click this link and scroll down till you find it in all its spectacularness (made that word up, right there). Then enter the giveaway. As they say – somewhere – it could be you. And who doesn’t like surprises? Eh?

Publishing News

squint and you’ll see an angel

Well, now you can thumb through it. Bend back the corner of a page. Smell it.Throw it at someone. Steady a chair with it. Hold a window open with it. Gift it to someone you love. Hide a weapon in it. I could go on. But. The news is: The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar is now available in paperback.

If this was Hollywood, I’d pitch it like this: Are you SUREyou really know the man you love?

Oh yeah. That got you thinking.

Who Am I?

Yes, Zoolander, it is, indeed, a conundrum.

When I started out on this self-publishing adventure, I wanted it to be a completely fresh start… for Aimee Alexander to be unconnected to anyone else. This was never entirely possible.At first, I felt that I should say on amazon that Aimee Alexander was the pen name of Denise Deegan (explained here).

As time has passed, people began to grow curious. I was asked to write an article about my journeyon writing.ie. I opened up a little more.It felt like...

Pause To Go Forward

this nice slippery crossroad was photographed by John Ivory http://jwivory.com/

So, last Friday, I reached my first big crossroads. I stood at it. Put my foot out, took it back in. Out. In. On repeat. The decision probably doesn’t seem like a huge one – to stay with amazon exclusively or go for wider distribution. My first three months on KDP Select with Pause to Rewind were up.There seemed a lot at stake.

Pause to Rewind has a pretty respectable ranking on amazon.com. It’s selling nicely and q...

Meet Talli Roland, self-publishing guru and general all-round honey

Once upon a time, four Irish writers who had never met before (and knew each other only through twitter), went on a road trip to the Romantic Novelists Association Conference in the UK. From the moment we sat into the car, our roles were decided. I was one of the children in the back. Which was nice. But that’s another story.

At the conference, we listened to author Talli Roland speakabout marketing as a self-published author. At the time, I was traditionally published. This seemedlike a diffe...

Feeling like Forrest Gump

still standing

Feeling a bit like Forrest Gump after Hurricane Carmen.

Thiswas my first Christmas as a self-publisher.I went in blind. BecauseI love Christmas,Ioffered my short story, Checkout Girl, for free and reduced the price of Pause to Rewind to 99c.I did not expect sales to fall.

I had not taken into account amazon’s Christmas promotions – wherethey slash the prices of high profile bestsellers. It was like sailing into a hurricane. All I could do was wait for it to pass and hope I was sti...

Second Novel Published

squint and you’ll see an angel

After two months in the wilderness, Pause to Rewind has a companion. Today, The Accidental Life of Greg Millar, makes its debut. I love the cover. I especially love that when you squint, you can see an angel – a happy accident.

Here’s the story:

Lucy Arigho is not the sort to be swept off her feet. She is sober, career-minded and numb since the death of her fiancé. It’s completely out of character for her to race a man in traffic – and even more unusual when they m...

Christmas gifts from me to you…

ho, ho, ho

Christmaaaas! Yaaay!

Yes, I’m one of those people.

I can’t go by a snow globe without shaking it. I believe in Santa Claus. I’ve already watched Elf. I love that there is a time of year whenpeople remember each other.I lovelie-ins, log fires and snuggling up toread.

To share the love, I’m gifting Checkout Girl, the story of what happens when a Christmas angel takes a detour. Just visit amazon.com or amazon.co.uk, download and snuggle. Here’s an idea: if you like it, you could gift it t...

Paperback Writer

Shortly after I published Pause to Rewindas an ebook, a reader contacted me to see if I would be publishing a paperback as she wished to gift the story to two people. At the time, I had no plans to produce a paperback. Because of production costs, they are more expensive to produce, retail higher and are consequently less in demand on amazon.

Then I thought, well, this woman had a good experience and wants to share it which is pretty kind. Publishing a paperback would be an adventure. And the...

Houston, we have lift off

for those of you who like to listen to your stories

So! We have anaudio book of Checkout Girlthis side of Christmas! It wasn’t meant to come together this fast. But, once again, magic has happened.

Huge thanks to everyone at , in particular, , whose idea this was – and who made it all possible.

So happy. And suddenly so Christmassy. Yaay!