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First you have an idea, then you think it through, conjure up characters or sometimes try to stop them yammering at you, then you imagine a setting and stir all together into a really sticky problem.
Several months later or sometimes a year later, out comes a typed manuscript. If you’ve […] October 18th, 2018 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book production, Books, editing, Getting published, indie publishing, proofing cover design, self-publishing | Category: Authors, Blogging, Books, Getting published, Marketing skills, Roma Nova, ROMA NOVA EXTRA, Writing life, Writing skills | 6 comments In the CrimeFest bookroom. Oh, look, INCEPTIO! Crimefest 2018 is over. I enjoyed it immensely, but goodness, you need stamina as it’s full-on. I don’t mean concentrating during the excellent panels (full details here), nor the snatched lunch breaks nor the feast of books in the bookroom run by Waterstones Bristol Galleries. No, it’s […] May 20th, 2018 | Tags: advice, Alliance of Independent Authors, author panels, Books, Bristol, conferences, CrimeFest, CrimeFest2018, indie panel, indie publishing, self-publishing, thriller writing, Waterstones | Category: ALLi, Authors, Events, INCEPTIO, Readers, Writing life | 2 comments Super exciting news! I’ve been chosen to be a panellist at the prestigious CrimeFest in May! I’ll be on ‘The Indie Alternative’ at 9.30 Sunday 20 May with fellow Alliance of Independent Authors writing friend Debbie Young, and authors Ian Andrew and Karen Millie James, with Zoë Sharp in the chair. Do have a […] March 1st, 2018 | Tags: Alliance of Independent Authors, conferences, crime fiction, CrimeFest, indie publishing, self-publishing | Category: ALLi, Authors, Events, Getting published, Other people's websites/blogs, Writing life, Writing skills | Leave a comment Last Thursday, I was delighted to be internet-based ExpatRadio‘s special guest on ‘The Scribblers’ spot. They let me witter on (in between music) for an hour. No, it was more of a conversation with Mike Madden, Wendy H Jones and Eilidh McGinness. I’ve met Wendy several times before – we both spoke a the last […] February 27th, 2018 | Tags: alternative history, Books, Characters, Getting published, heroines, indie publishing, interview, radio interview, Roma Nova, Rome, self-publishing, SilverWood Books, thriller | Category: Authors, CARINA, France, Getting published, In the press, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, Roma Nova, Writing life, Writing skills | Leave a comment Did you ever think you’d write a book? Or several? Many writers come to it late or write part-time; they’ve had or still have a Real Life. Faced with the organisation behind marketing their book, which seems like rebuilding Rome, they worry about their inadequacies on the business side. All they ever wanted to do […] October 16th, 2017 | Tags: advice, Alliance of Independent Authors, Courses, Hard graft, self-publishing | Category: Authors, Business skills, Marketing skills, Social media, Useful stuff, Writing life | 2 comments |
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