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The hard sell
It's always difficult to get the balance right between hard sell and soft sell. Joe Coleman's website allows you to choose your own level of (dis)comfort!
Read MoreNational Backup Day
A fifth of Americans never make a backup apparently, according to a recent survey.
Read MoreA quick look at Book Report
Here's a handy tool for analysing your Kindle ebook sales.
Read MoreLondon Book Fair 2017 Bulletin #3
What I learnt on the last day of the London Book Fair 2017.
Read MoreLondon Book Fair 2017 Bulletin #2: Nothing is ever wasted
Imagine ditching 20,000 words of your novel! Insights from Rosanna Ley, Cally Taylor, Gabriel Mercer, Jessica Bell and others.
Read MoreLondon Book Fair 2017 Bulletin #1
The London Book Fair is on this week. If you're a self-published author, or hoping to be, here are three seminars you may wish to attend today. They are concerned with self-publishing, research and copyright issues, and the creative writing process.
Read MoreThe What Works Education Conference at the London Book Fair
Alongside the London Book Fair is the What Works education conference. As you may have surmised from its proximity to the LBF, it focuses on educational publishing.
Read MoreWriting and maps: some ideas
How might writers make use of maps to convey information (besides geographical information)?
Read MoreEveryone needs a special writing day
What's a special writing day? And what's so special about them?
Read MoreAmazon streamlines self-publishing
I've never really understood why Amazon has two self-publishing systems: one for e-books, and another for printed books. Having two systems doesn't exactly double the workload, but it doubles the amount to think about, and adds to the number of hoops you have to leap through.
Well, those days could be over soon because Amazon has launched a trial version of a paperback publishing tool within KDP, its e-book publishing tool.
There's some more information on this initiative here: Amazon paperback printing.
Why I like Amazon part 2: as an author
This second article in my micro-series "Why I like Amazon". This time, from the point of view of being an author.
Read MoreWhy I like Amazon part 1: as a reader
As a reader, I love Amazon Kindle. Here's why.
Read MoreSelf-publishing is a misnomer
Why the term 'self-publishing' is no longer an accurate description of, erm, self-publishers.
Read MoreLondon Book Fair 2017: Registration now open
The registration desks for the London Book Fair 2017 are now open! In this article I discuss what I get out of it, and why I go every year -- and how that relates to my recent foray into Kindle self-publishing. And details of the Fair itself of course!
Read MoreAre MAs in Creative Writing useful?
Here's a reason that doing an MA in Creative Writing could be quite useful -- a reason I'd never considered before.
Read MoreIs writing advice any use?
How useful is writing advice?
Read MoreIs bad writing deliberate?
Why do some writers write badly?
Read MoreWriting on a netbook
Can writers benefit from using technology that is old, and without much functionality?
Read MoreBrexit and authors
How will Brexit affect UK authors?
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