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Your favourite books of 2012?
2012 was the year that I took the plunge and self-published by own debut novel Housewife with a Half-Life as A.B. Wells as well as some small short collections as Alison Wells. I’m looking forward to submitting my literary books as Alison Wells to agents in 2013. But as well as writing I’ve enjoyed making more…
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50% off a Housewife
My novel Housewife with a Half-Life is available in a variety of formats for all e-readers over at Smashwords and you can get 50% off with this coupon code: AL24Z. TRY HOUSEWIFE WITH A HALF-LIFE OR GIVE IT AS A GIFT HERE AND DON’T FORGET THE CODE! Original and imaginative… glorious scientific allusions and illusions…
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Next Big Thing: The Exhibit of Held Breaths
I was tagged to join in The Next Big Thing, by the lovely Niamh Boyce, I first met Niamh at the Hennessy Awards in 2010 and later at the WOW awards in Galway when we were both shortlisted. Niamh won the Hennessy Awards for new Irish writing in 2012 and her novel The Herbalist will…
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#fridayflash Reunion
They met again in a supermarket. It was Christmas Eve and everyone was there. All around the shop assaults of memory, surreptitious sightings of people from the past, back, nasty girls from school now snapped and pummeled, lost boys made good in chinos and suits, friends of her mother patting her arm in the biscuit…
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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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Self-published book in the national paper
Yesterday the Higgs Boson & today Housewife with a Half-Life gets a mention as a beach read in the Irish Independent. Not bad for a self-published book eh? Is there no end to the excitement? And all while I’m off on a quiet retreat. Take heart self-publishers, all sorts of things are possible! Meanwhile back…
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Self-published book in a bookshop
Delighted with this photo! Also delighted that Housewife with a Half-life has recently received this lovely 4 star review on Goodreads: From: Nick Lowe Recommended for fans of Ben Elton,Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett. The author combines humour and sci fi with the ordinary hum-drum of the life of a housewife. Highly enjoyable and original…
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Indie Author Giveaway Results
Here are the winners of the Indie Author Giveaway. The winner of the paperback is Darlene. The winners of the ebook are Sarah Elizabeth andChristine Hewell Jenson. I will be in touch with the winners shortly. Congratulations. I will add the results of the fun launch prize comp (very tardily ) tomorrow.
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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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