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25

Sep

How to prepare a book for Kindle

Posted by rdenning  Published in e-books, Selfpublishing, Uncategorized

It has been a while since I wrote an article on e-book conversion to Amazon Kindle and I decided to do another one having had a few questions on this subject. First up you will need an account on Kindle Direct Publishing so go set one up. There is another article here about that. The […]

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21

Sep

H.G Wells – a founding father of Science Fiction

Posted by rdenning  Published in Publishing, Time Travel, Uncategorized, writers

I have two significant reasons for being thankful to Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946). Firstly of course he was a writer who came out with a number of books of science fiction which along with his near contemporary,Jules Verne had influence on the evolution of the genre in the twentieth century. Secondly, […]

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15

Sep

I have this idea for a board game…

Posted by rdenning  Published in Great Fire of London, Publishing

Or how to get a board game published Why ask me? I run UK Games Expo – the UK’s largest non electronic multi format hobby game convention. By this I mean we have board games, card games, roleplaying games by a multitude of games companies in an event over 3 days that attracts 6000+ people. […]

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13

Sep

Team building for the Indie Writer

Posted by rdenning  Published in Mercia Books, Publishing, Selfpublishing

I am a self published writer OR possibly you could describe me as an Indie because I have my own publishing house, Mercia Books. I have already blogged about how to self publish and how I went about doing it. What I wanted to touch on in this article was what I feel is critical […]

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6

Sep

Reloading History – the appeal of Historical Fantasy

Posted by rdenning  Published in Historical Fiction

I have always been fascinated by historical settings but at the same time I adored a good fantasy book. So, in my reading, I have devoured the Lord of The Rings, the Disc World Novels and a good chunk of fantasy published in the last thirty or so years. I have also read a lot […]

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5

Sep

Fourth Day of The Great Fire 5th September 1666

Posted by rdenning  Published in 17th Century History, 17th Century London, Great Fire of London, The Last Seal, Uncategorized

Wednesday 5th September – Hope at Last! Home; and whereas I expected to have seen our house on fire, it being now about seven o’clock, it was not.  But to the fyre, and there find greater hopes than I expected; for my confidence of finding our Office on fire was such, that I durst not […]

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4

Sep

Third day of the Great Fire of London: September 4th 1666

Posted by rdenning  Published in 17th Century History, 17th Century London, Great Fire of London, The Last Seal, Uncategorized

Tuesday 4th September – The Fire at full fury! Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-streete, those next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything, but it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the houses to the ground in the same places they […]

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3

Sep

Second day of the Great Fire of London: September 3rd 1666

Posted by rdenning  Published in 17th Century London, Great Fire of London, The Last Seal

About four o’clock in the morning, my Lady Batten sent me a cart to carry away all my money, and plate, and best things, to Sir W. Riders at Bednall-greene. Which I did riding myself in my night-gowne in the cart; and, Lord! to see how the streets and the highways are crowded with people […]

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2

Sep

First day of the Great Fire of London: September 2nd 1666

Posted by rdenning  Published in 17th Century History, 17th Century London, Great Fire of London, The Last Seal, Uncategorized

Here by ye permission of heaven, hell broke loose upon this Protestant city. Original Engraving on the Great Fire Mounment Jane called up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown and went to her window, and thought […]

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