Just a couple of quick notes from me today to let you know that from 01 May 2025 to 08 May 2025 my vampire-slaying, gun-toting, close-protection book The Covenant will be 50% off in the Kindle Store. That’s not all: To commemorate Victory in Europe Day, my Middle-grade ‘The Knitted Knomes‘ about a bunch of …
Tag Archives: self-publishing
Comparisons
When developing and planning a book, it’s good practice to have an idea where it goes on your shelf, and more importantly, where you are aiming to put it in the market. That’s one thing, but your book has to be different. Further, it has to be yours in style and feel, and in how …
Schrodinger’s Book
It exists, but also not quite. Andy McNab meets Abraham Van Helsing in this (soon to be) Christmas Cracker. It should perhaps be considered like Die Hard: an action film set at Christmas, but I don’t know if that makes it a Christmas film?! I’ve been slaving away on this for a while now, and …
A Loss For Words
As authors we are constantly thinking about word count. We want more, always more, and so do Publishers, as they will often specify a word count in their application process – some ones I have seen will take no less than 80,000 which does qualify as full novel length according to some metrics. So it …
Own Sweet Time
Thought I’d write something and catch up with you all! Thanks to all my long term adventurers and those new to the fold for sticking with it! Been up and down busy lately, with two projects now sitting in a lull, awaiting decisions. Got one off with an Editor – only because it’s a totally …
Market Value
I’m pensive due to listening to the excellent Surviving Mars soundtrack, and still turning over the recent experience with the publisher in my head and it has been exceptionally useful to codify my understanding of something I gleaned from David Morrell’s The Successful Novelist, in which he cautions about writing to an existing market, or …
Oh Well. Next!
Had a post up yesterday, demonstrating my uncertainty over what to do regarding recent communications from the Publisher I was querying. I heard back, and they have decided not to go forward with The Ares Gambit. To be fair to them, their reply was personalised, very professional and polite, and if I’m reading between the …
Short Crust
Or maybe the thin end of the wedge! Hello fellow adventurers, and thank you for your time – which I intend to save with today’s short epistle. I don’t think The Ares Gambit will be coming out via a publisher. I queried them, but it has been 9 weeks and I’ve sent a follow-up email …
Just Do(n’t) It
I can’t afford Shouty LeBeef, nor do I want to pay him royalties, nor do I own running shoes named after a Greek goddess (Nike), so we’re just going to have to make do. Let’s get down to brass tacks. When I frequented Twitter, I had several mutual followers, I followed them, they followed back, …
A Quick Query
Firstly, hello to another handful of Adventurers! Welcome, sit ye down around the fire and share in the tales of my witless jabbering! 🙂 I was directed to a publishing company that was looking for submissions in my genre, (no YA, Fantasy, Screenplays or Poetry oddly) so I have put together a tight synopsis and …
Mightier Is The Pen 