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Taking a quick break from my sales analysis (the ‘tail’ is still ongoing, I will report more next week), to review one of several festive books I read during the holiday period, while I was resting following my cancer surgery. Thankfully, with that all now behind me, I have lots of plans for 2026, and […]

This week I’ve had the best news to start the new year – I am confirmed cancer free! Such a relief, though it was a long wait, 4 weeks post surgery, to get the news. Onwards and upward 2026. Analysing my promo – royalty figures I will be doing my analysis in several stages, because […]

Much has been made of the gradual decline in the results of paid book advertising, with authors struggling to increase, or even keep up sales momentum. One used to be able to do a decent paid promo, then live off a long sales tail for weeks, or even months, with guaranteed ROI. This is without […]

To all those who have joined my blog this year, welcome! And if you are yet to take the plunge with The Five Kingdoms series, NOW is the time! Just click on the picture to find it at the retailer of your choice. Merry Christmas!

Many thanks to those of you who sent good wishes for my cancer surgery. It went well, and hopefully that will be all the treatment I need – I have to wait a couple of weeks for test results to confirm, but everything looks positive. And now to the main event: FRAGILE is out there in the […]

I’m frantically getting everything wrapped up before Friday and my 7.30am hospital admission, gulp! It’s been a challenge, but FRAGILE is ready to go! Editing is complete, and the pre-order is live everywhere (except just now at Barnes and Noble, who are dragging their feet), with publication date set for a week’s time, December 17th […]

Life has gone mad, as it does sometimes, and I have so much going on, it’s a challenge. Just as well I thrive on those! Top of this list is the sudden appearance of date with a surgeon, next Friday. I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer a couple of months back. It’s slow growing and […]

In the last post we covered all the steps to get your ebook ready for that final step – publishing. Pricing Now it’s time to set your price, and decide which outlets you want to publish to. Assuming you already took this step when publishing to Amazon (I highly recommend doing this first, before D2D), […]

Another quick break from my self publishing series to bring you an update on my WIP. FRAGILE is finished, and editing is coming along apace, so I thought it was about time to share a few snippets to whet your appetites. I’m planning on a pre-Christmas publishing date, if all goes to plan. I shared […]

Step 2: Layout Once you have completed the steps in the last tutorial, which included uploading your manuscript, the next page offers these options that help to give your book a polished, professional look. The below example shows how it looks for one of my existing books. As you can see on the left, there […]

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