Independent authors talk about their books being exclusive or wide. But what does it mean? Well, exclusive means that you have published your digital books exclusively with Amazon (your paperbacks can continue to be distributed wherever you like). For doing this you get to tick the box which lets you into the KDP Select programme […]
Based on a true story with an imaginative retelling for young readers; P22 mountain lion is born in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California. But he is forced out of the mountains by Prime, a fierce older male lion who wants him dead. He heads east to stake out a new […]
I received a very welcome email this week. It was from Findaway Voices and it sent me a link to my second audio book, Loving Vengeance, on Audible. When I first launched this book I kept checking if it had finally arrived on my Amazon page, but that was at the end of November […]
I wouldn’t usually choose fantasy to read, but, luckily for me, I didn’t know this was fantasy when I bought the book, which just goes to show you should always tread outside your comfort zone. I did know it was adventure though, and I do like an adventure. I have to say I was […]
As you may, although most likely, may not have noticed I’ve been trying to stick to writing one blog post a week. Besides the occasional review. This felt like a doable thing a few weeks ago when I had all sorts of ideas floating around in my head. If only I’d written them down […]
I am going to be interested to see if anyone else had this rather bizarre school experience. Of course I only think it’s bizarre looking back, at the time it was all perfectly normal. When I started in the lower school of my school, aged 6, I was taught to write with a fountain pen. […]
Springtime for Murder is one of seven books in this cosy mystery series. I started it thinking it was book 1 for some reason but I can confirm, having found out it wasn’t, that it can be easily read as a standalone, as, I believe, can the others in the series. This tale starts […]
I have heard about head-hopping, seen other authors discussing it on blogs and whatnot but had never had to consider it, until now. Everything I’ve published to date has been written in the first person so viewpoint was consistent, and one less thing to deal with. But then I started this current draft and […]
I chose to read this short book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and the author sent me a copy. This does not affect my review in any way. This book is made up of short stories and flash fiction written by the author somewhere between high school and his mid-twenties. This is […]
Coming up with the names for my characters is always an issue for me. It takes me ages and is often dependent on how I feel about any person with that name that I’ve met in the past. I’m always indecisive about the ones I choose for my characters and during a first draft they […]
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