I was talking to a new book client the other day and asked them who their book was for. Everyone, they said. I had to physically stop myself from rolling my eyes. But remember thinking this exact same thing. It is true that if you took a thousand random people and forced them to read […]
Anyone who is around me when I’m writing will know I hate the first draft phase. It is always such a relief to have finished that and hopefully have the basic story down, with most of the bits generally in the right order. They will also know that conversely I love editing. I take […]
I visited a new place this weekend, Johnsons of Old Hurst, and, considering it was so close, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t been there before. It was fabulous. It was a working farm with several major differences. It had a farm walk that went off into a woodland walk with scattered models of animals […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have never given any thought to my chapter headings. Consequently, I have gone about as basic as you can go – Chapter 1, not even Chapter One. And I wonder if I should change that? I have a client who has always named each of his chapters. Actually he puts a number first and […]
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