Writing and Sharing

Well we have survived another festive period and although we are still eating leftovers the New Year has been well and truly rung in (so my head is telling me!) and the decorations are down – yay! As anyone who read my last post on why I haven’t read and reviewed your book may remember […]

I haven’t done any end of year lists of favourite books read or best viewed blog posts but I did come across a rather alarming figure recently which explains a lot and which I thought I’d share. As some of you may know when not inhabiting the world of writing I fill my time doing […]

Okay so hate is a pretty strong word for it but at one time that was how I felt. Not about the day, the reason for it, the sentiment. But the build up…the overwhelming and relentless build up that threatened to crush any joy out of the festivities. It was when my children were small […]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! […]

Thicker than Water will only be in KDP Select until the 16 December so until then it is available on Kindle Unlimited for those with Prime accounts. So to make use of Amazon’s promotion options I have it listed on a Kindle Countdown Deal from 16 Nov to the 23 Nov and it will be […]

I decided a while ago that I didn’t want to have my books exclusively anywhere so A Single Step has, for some considerable time, not been enrolled in KDP Select but has been listed on Kobo, Nook and Smashwords (which distributes widely). However, I have been extremely bad at advertising this fact, and I need […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of an excellent book, or seven, is definitely in need of a shedload of marketing. However… I don’t think I’ve come across any author yet who particularly likes this side of their job. When I first met Mark Barry via Twitter I only knew him as Wiz Green and it took […]