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Sharing hordes of information treasure

Dashing around visiting sites/blog/articles, I sometimes forget to tell others about the hordes of treasure I find, so here are two articles on promoting your book that I’ve found or visited recently.

50 Simple Ways to Build Your Platform Christina Katz writes:

“Writing rules. Self-promotion drools. Isn’t this how most writers think?

But as long […]

The peerless History of Rome podcast

For all Roman ‘nuts’ out there, I have to tell you about a fantastic podcast called The History of Rome. Mike Duncan, a political science and philosophy graduate from Western Washington University, has the knack of neatly dissecting the political and imperial essentials of the Kingdom, Republic and Empire and communicating them with clarity and […]

Surviving the emotional foot-stomp on creativity

The renowned Nicola Morgan, famously proud to be the first Google result for “Crabbit Old Bat” and an award-winning author of around ninety books, never fails to offer diamonds to aspiring writers. Frankness and occasional brutality are her hallmarks. But she’s usually right.

So, in my morning scan of blogs, I found her post today […]

Talli Roland takes on Amazon!

My writing friend Talli Roland is a clever girl. She’s come up with a ‘wizard wheeze’ to get her debut novel THE HATING GAME to hit the Kindle bestseller list at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk by spreading the word today. Even a few sales in a short period of time on Amazon helps push the book […]

Apple turnover – electronic book publishing evolves

If you want to read about e-publishing and the effect of Apple’s iPad, I recommend you read Danuta Kean’s article here on the London Book Fair website