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How many authors are not making a living from books they have written? Come and see what we’re doing about it in these difficult times
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I recently saw a writer asking the question whether it was more important to have a good book cover or to have the book well edited. The overwhelming response on the forum was that if the cover is unappealing then no-one will ever know about the poor editing!
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Just as the owner of a clothes shop would not dress the mannequins in the window only once in ten years, neither should an author set and forget his or her book covers.
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…Finally, so far, that is, some authors are putting the 3-D cover with the blurb on a relevant background image, and that is the bee’s knees in book advertising covers for me.
If you follow this blog, you will know that my writing life suffered a tremendous kick in the teeth in mid-2021. If you don’t know, then there is an article on this blog w
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Then, one morning, I turned on my computer to discover that my Facebook account had been blocked or banned or shut down, whatever you want to call it, for ‘spamming’!
The Ultimate Promo Package is the best promo package available for advertisers, especially of books and artwork, on my blog
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Blubrry Podcast Hosting is my recommendation to (would-be) podcasters. I started with the free month of Blubrry Podcast Hosting, but continued after the trial Get your free link here!
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We decided to buy a new blog theme since the previous one was seven years old and the designers had stopped keeping it up to date several years ago, so as WordPress developed, certain key features had ceased to work.
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Tunes – Apple is now stocking 70+ professional audiobook narrations of Welsh author from Barry, Owen Jones’ 300+ novels and translations that are available as ebooks elsewhere on iTunes – Apple. Psychological dramas set in many locations.
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David Blair got involved in story telling in the 8th grade. He wrote, directed and starred in a student film called ‘’Destination Destiny’’ He then picked up writing again in his early thirties.
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Are Indie authors there own worst enemies? Have they unwittingly priced themselves out of the market because they don’t understand how Amazon makes money? Read on to find out…
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The Eternal Plan – Revealed by the medium Colin Jones is now out in audiobook format. It makes for very tranquil, peaceful and educational listening
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Promotion on Megan Publishing Services is available in several formats for writers and other artists to make their work more widely known
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Site Maintenance Site maintenance is an important part of any webmaster’s duties and has to be taken seriously, but it is not usually an onerous task. However, in the last thirty days or so, two of the largest players on the Internet, Google and Amazon have decided to force everyone to make huge alterations to
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Facebook Friends Part 2 (From part one: “Then there was a huge group of ‘beautiful women’. This group is the one I found most interesting. Naturally…”) I would say there were about four hundred in my group of new Facebook friends. They all came from Texas, and most of them from Austin. None of them
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Your Computer: The Spy You Trust We all have some sort of computer these days, don’t we? If you don’t have a desktop computer, you may have a laptop, and if not those then a tablet or smartphone. If you don’t have any of those, perhaps you have a new smart TV or fridge or
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Beware Amazon Book Rankings! If you are a reader, or a writer, you probably use Amazon book rankings at some time or another. Even if you are a bookshop owner’s dream and buy your latest reads locally, the chances are that you do your research online and, therefore, on Amazon. And why wouldn’t you? ‘What
