Tag: progress
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#PoweredByIndie
Amazon are running a promotion this October called PoweredByIndie. Basically to celebrate authors who self publish with them. They are highlighting as many as they can, but suggest we all blow a few trumpets too. This we can do, because we like blowing trumpets, and have learned more as an Indie than as anything else.…
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Serious Editing, my style… part one
Most writers are not particularly keen on editing their work, and this is the wrong way to start. It took me a long time to learn to love editing, but when you do, it makes the process fun (and effective!) Understandable really, for by the time you have spent several weeks’ months ripping plots…
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Reasons to Continue…
(from the archives 2015) I am beginning to think that becoming a successful author must be as difficult as winning the lottery. Either that or you have to be born lucky. On my quest for a brilliant book and perfect cover, I have had to stretch my brain quite a lot. Not for the writing,…
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Mind Blowing…
There are times when I want to run screaming away from my office and everything in it. Yes, it was one of those days when I had come up against the proverbial last straw and just knew I couldn’t take any more setbacks. This post is hard for me to write, because I am…
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You Never Know…
(The tree of souls, from the film Avatar…) I never knew this blog would turn out to be a very important part of my little writing kingdom, when I first decided to see if I could create one. Everyone said at the time that as the blog improved, so would I. That you must…
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Life isn’t a Joke!
The Joker… the cleverest card in the deck… care and trouble free… I have been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I think my brain has reached another tipping point. Since we began this journey into the weird and wonderful world of self-publishing, an avalanche of confusing and often unhelpful information has assaulted…