A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Distraction. It’s a word used a lot in recent years. It has been used extensively in political circles where a party, a leader, a tyrant distracts their voters from something really bad they are responsible for. Distraction is also a hidden terror for the unsuspecting author. When your reader downloads your book and starts reading,…
I’m no marketing expert, in fact, quite the opposite. Despite being an indie author for over twelve years, I still feel my marketing efforts are perhaps a little hamfisted, even amateurish. But I have discovered little niche areas that seem to work for me. I’ve read so many books that purport to give you the…
Have you ever noticed, dear reader, when you go round your local supermarket, someone seems to take great delight in picking up a tin of peas, and depositing them with the pasta. Or it may be a packet of rice in the frozen fish section. I’ve even found a dozen free range eggs happily nestled…
Publishing a book using Amazon’s kdp (kindle direct publishing) facility is easy, very much like falling off the proverbial log. I know this to be true because I’ve done both, that is published my books and fallen off a log (okay, it was a rocky ravine) and believe me, the latter is much more painful….
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts July 1939 – Basil Shoots the Breeze It was a long drive and Basil, being Basil, decided he needed to stop as the light was fading. Truth be known, the light wasn’t fading, it wouldn’t fade for another two hours. But Basil…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Secrets Albert steered his Citroen 7 through the wide street of the Rue de Rivoli, turning left into a side street. The erratic swish-swash of the windscreen wipers toiling to clear the fine spray of drizzle constantly landing on the screen made…
If it had not been for technology, I wouldn’t be sitting here today, typing this blog post, and, I wouldn’t have a blog let alone an internet connection. It’s technology that allows us to do the things we love best as indie authors, namely, to write. True enough we could all go back to typing,…
I got hooked on writing at an early age, around eight or nine years old I seem to remember. I can still picture my English book, it had a blue cover, where we pupils would write our classic stories. I remember drafting my first story set in period in the mid 1990s but based on…
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