First an analogy to help understand why dealing with criticism as an author is important: Writing a book is like having a baby. You’ve spent years getting your…
My website has been shortlisted for the Blog North Awards! The Blog North Awards “celebrate the best of Northern England’s independent publishing”. This website is on the shortlist…
Good Book Cover Design is Vital The book cover design is one of the most critical factors in a book’s success. There are only really three things that…
Today I’m releasing the second ‘teaser ‘wallpaper for A Kill in the Morning. Like the earlier A Kill in the Morning tagline wallpaper and first A Kill in…
Today I’m releasing the first ‘teaser ‘wallpaper for A Kill in the Morning. Like the A Kill in the Morning tagline this features an element from the cover,…
Today I’m excited to announce the tagline for A Kill in the Morning. To celebrate, I’ve also designed some wallpaper featuring the tagline. The tagline will appear on…
What are you working on? I’m currently proofreading my novel A Kill in the Morning. It’s very exciting because it’s my last chance to make sure the novel is 100% right…
If you’ve decided to self-publish your novel, book or short story, then the easiest way is to self publish on Kindle and Amazon’s website using Kindle Direct Publishing…
Aspiring authors often seem to think that manuscript format isn’t that important when they submit their novel to agencies and publishers. They couldn’t be more wrong. But surely…
When I sold A Kill in the Morning, to Transworld Books, I knew almost nothing about publishers, agents or all the specialised terms used in my literary contract,…