Twitter (like facebook) and other social networks are not only a good way to keep in touch with friends, find out about news, collect tips and links to helpful blog articles but is also, for an author, an indispensable way of spreading the word about your own books. Yet it can soak up a lot […]

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Try out some ebooks for free this week This week is Read an Ebook week on Smashwords. If you are an author looking at reaching a larger audience or a reader who likes free stuff (and don’t we all!!) you might be interested in finding out more about this. Firstly what is Smashwords? Well its […]

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How to self publish your own e-books – a brief over view. In many ways 2011 is the year when e-books will come of age. Last year saw record sales of Kindles and Ipads and other readers and also saw e-books outstrip hardbacks on Amazon.com. Sales in the UK are not yet at the same […]

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A self help guide to publishing your e-book on the World’s biggest bookstore. A few days before Christmas 2010 I put my first two e-books on Amazon Kindle. As I have been asked how you go about doing that I thought I would do a short “How To” guide. E-books sales are rapidly expanding. Sales […]

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Like many many people I have written several novels with more on the way. Also, like many many people, I have tried to get an agent and a publisher with varying levels of success and interest. It is a hard time to get published but there are other options. Having been writing for 10 years […]

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