Category: Self-publishing

• Heart Potato

    ‘Oh yes,’ said Fairly Dave. ‘It’s commonly known that there’s too much obesity among tellies hanging round looking at couch potatoes – although they are very interesting. It’s not that often you find a potato in the shape of a couch – not since the supermarkets conspired in that ‘campaign for beautiful vegetables’. And…

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  February 6, 2013

  Books and Authors, Self-publishing

  heart, potato

• 31 Days: Eliza Green – Why Self-Publishing can be good for Debut Authors

  Publishing is a hair-raising and confusing game at the moment. Lists are said to be shrinking and even well known authors sometimes struggle to make a living from publishing. There are also many publishing possibilities and many authors are choosing to let readers decide by bringing their books straight to market with the help of…

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  January 29, 2013

  31 ways to keep your Head above Water, Self-publishing

  Becoming Human, Eliza Green, optimism, self-publishing

• Self-published in a bookshop

  On writing.ie I share what I have learned so far about getting your self-published book into a  (I am stocked in Dubray books in Bray and in Hughes and Hughes stores in Dublin) and about bookshop launches, as well as the success of a self-published author in the UK at getting his book stocked at…

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  October 5, 2012

  Self-publishing

  bookshop, self-publishing, wattpad

• The business of self-publishing: Bookshop launches

  Self-publishing is becoming a viable and accepted method for writers to either bring out a book that is hard for publishers to define, for traditionally published writers to relaunch old out of print titles electronically or through print on demand, for writers to supplement their traditional titles or fund their writing on the path to…

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  August 23, 2012

  Self-publishing, short stories

  book launch, bookshop launch, Bridport Prize, business, Hennessy Awards, self-publishing

• New short story collection, #Fridayflash and Smashwords news

  Self-published in a library Smashwords have just announced an exciting new library initiative for their bestselling titles. Read more about it here. Publishing is in a state Here’s a very very interesting article about the state of publishing today and the role of ‘indie’ publishers in that. Today’s #Fridayflash Today my #fridayflash short fiction is…

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  August 17, 2012

  #FridayFlash, Flash fiction, Self-publishing, short stories

  #FridayFlash, short stories, smashwords library intitative

• Dear Agent for writers and last free day

  The wonderful Nicola Morgan, of the great writing and publishing site Help, I need a publisher! author of 90 books including Write to be Published has just brought out Dear Agent: Write the Letter that Sells your Book. As readers of her blog will know, the advice she gives is always realistic, practical and sprinkled…

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  August 10, 2012

  Housewife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing

  dear agent, self-publishing

• Why I used my Kindle free days when I had decided not to

  The Background I originally signed up for the Kindle free days to be part of the promotion for the launch of the wonderful Jawbreakers anthology in May. I had only launched Housewife with a Half-Life a few days before so perhaps it wasn’t the best time to give it away for free but being part…

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  August 7, 2012

  Housewife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing, Uncategorized

  Free e-books, Free Ebooks, Housewife with a Half-Life, KDP, Kindle Free Days, self-publishing

• My self-publishing experience

  Today I’ve visited the blog of Debz Hobbs Wyatt who works as small publisher Bridgehouse to share my self-publishing experience, the areas where I had costs and how I found the whole process. Speaking to an editor and other writing professionals we decided that it might be a good contender for self-publishing as it’s more…

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  August 1, 2012

  Books and Authors, Self-publishing

  costs, self-publishing, The New Big Book of Hope.

• Why I self-published both paperback & ebook

  One of the main attractions of self-publishing is the ease with which you can now produce and distribute your masterpiece and along with that how you can offer it as a very reasonably priced ebook which any right minded individual will of course shell out for. All you have to do is upload your file…

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  June 6, 2012

  Housewife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing, Uncategorized

• News of paperback launch of Housewife with a Half-Life 12th & 22nd June

  I launched Housewife with a Half-Life as an ebook on May 8th and I’m delighted now to be able to announce the paperback launch of the book. The online launch of the paperback will be on the 12th of June. I’ll be building up to it with video excerpts and posts about the process of…

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  May 30, 2012

  Housewife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing

  paperback launch of Housewife with a Half-Life