Category: Self-publishing
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Don’t Panic: Slow writing in the new publishing landscape
Many movements have taken on the concept of slow, the most prominent being the Slow Food movement. The idea of slow is to take more time, to deliberate more, to savour, to give depths to moments of endeavour and enjoyment. This idea has much in common with the concept of mindfulness, an attentive awareness of…
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Housewife with a Half-Life e-book launched!
The day is finally here! I’m delighted to launch my debut novel as A.B. Wells Housewife with a Half-Life! Available on: Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk A paperback will be available in June! Join me here and on my and on my facebook launch event page. If on twitter, retweet the links for Housewife with a Half-Life launch…
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Why I got a cover designer for my self-pub: Housewife with a Half-Life!
I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Housewife with a Half-Life! I worked with Andrew Brown of Design for Writers to come up with something unique and striking. If there is one thing that I am absolutely hopeless at it’s design. Art, drawing, anything in that line. My 7 year old daughter can sketch better…
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42 The Meaning of Life…Flash Fiction Writing Competition!
To celebrate the e-book launch of Housewife with a Half-Life on May 8th (paperback to follow) and my love of flash fiction I’m running a flash fiction writing competition. Since my space comedy book is a sort of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in Suburbia and because by amazing coincidence(!) my current age is the…
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Housewife with a Half-Life: E-book Launch & Blog Splash May 8th!
I’m delighted to announce that I’m going to launch the e-book of my first novel (as A.B.Wells) Housewife with a Half-Life on May 8th! HOUSEWIFE WITH A HALF-LIFE Susan Strong is a suburban housewife who is literally disintegrating. When, Fairly Dave, a kilt sporting spaceman arrives through the shower head to warn her, she knows things…
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5 things I did to make my self-published book brilliant
The first thing I want to do is write. It’s essential, it’s non-negotiable. The next thing I want to do is share my writing with others. And that’s what I’ve been doing on this blog and through my submissions to anthologies and zines. Like many I’m still in the process of figuring out what’s the…
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Lucky Seven: Seven lines from Housewife with a Half-Life
I’ve been tagged by Jane Rusbridge and by Martha Williams as one of her authors in the Lucky Seven meme. It gives established and new writers a chance to showcase what they are working on. The instructions for Lucky 7 are: · Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript · Go to…
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