Writing and Sharing

  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 […]

I may well be the last person to this but when listening to the AskAlli: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast today, on the Advanced Use of Social Media for Authors, Joanna Penn mentioned Linktree. I’d never heard of it before. I have used various link options over the years from Bit.ly for handy shortened links, then Book […]

  This has been the latest thing I’ve tackled in my round of do-overs. My mailing list. I have made so many mistakes with this. And I knew as much, but just hadn’t found the time to sort things out. Recently though I finally got round to reading Newsletter Ninja by Tammi Labrecque, made notes, […]

  I’m writing a new series – there, I’ve said it out loud. The plan is for a fairly long series, but should that all go to pot I can make it shorter, even into a trilogy, or quite possibly, at the moment, a standalone. However, they, or it, turns out, though I’m returning to […]

I have been struggling with sales from my website for a while. I used to have a shop which sold paperbacks and recently spent a day trying to get this to work smoothly with the right amount of postage being allotted to each product correctly but to be honest the permutations seemed endless and eventually […]