Category My books
Book Relaunch – DESPRITE MEASURES #UrbanFantasy #EcoFiction
Last summer, I shared that I was planning to update and re-launch one of my earlier novels: Urban Fantasy, DESPRITE MEASURES. I have spent the last 6 months working on it when I had a spare moment (not many of those were available, what with the issues with my trad pub non-fiction book, which had […]
#0.99c #sale THE PRINCE’S MAN, #epicfantasy
After last year’s not-so-successful free promotion, I’ve gone back to my annual 0.99c sale, which is currently underway. I find it weird that charging a small amount for a book should provide better results than giving it away, but perhaps those notions we sometimes discuss, of people not necessarily considering that a book could be […]
New #equestrian book is published – finally! #TradPub
Yay! FINALLY it’s published! And yes, I’m pleased with the finished book (phew!) Most of you have been following the saga of my latest TradPub book. If you want to (or need to) catch up, here are the previous posts: But that saga isn’t quite finished… Having changed the predicted publication date from mid September […]
Latest on the Non-Fiction book (#TradPub) and #BookReview Grave Mistake (Hedgewitch for Hire, #1) by Christine Pope #ParanormalCozyMystery
The book is finally off to the printers. I did point out that I had never been sent a final proof copy, but the editor dismissed this as unecessary, stating that the copy I’d seen was the final one, albeit an uncorrected version. You think? Uncorrected as in around 25 missing diagrams, and around 40 […]
Have you considered #AI narration for your #audiobook? #Apple #D2D
I know, I know. AI can never take the place of the human ability to inject feeling and emphasis into reading aloud – the core component of a fiction audiobook. However, are you aware of how much you will need to pay a human narrator to read your novel and turn it into an audiobook? […]
New cover book relaunch: #EcoFantasy DESPRITE MEASURES
I mentioned recently that I’d had a new cover made for my eco-fantasy novel, DESPRITE MEASURES and some have wondered why, because the original cover is beautiful This was one of my earliest books, and I absolutely adore the cover. It is exactly how I wanted it, faithfully portraying a scene from the book where […]
Have you heard of #EcoFantasy?
Ages ago I set out to write an urban fantasy novel, which became DESPRITE MEASURES. Yes, you read that right – it’s a story about a water sprite and I do love a pun. I wanted to write a type of character no one had done before, and settled on an elemental. Many books have […]
Yet more about the #tradpub experience
Maybe I’m just unfortunate. Maybe this is the way of things these days, but this experience is firming up my resolve that this will definitely be my last traditionally published book. These posts relate the situation so far: And so to the latest… Just before the last weekend in May, I received an email from […]
More #Tradpub experience…
This past week I have been working away from home, and had a revelation courtesy of one of my enthusiastic clients: my new equestrian book is available on Amazon for pre-order, and has a firm publishing date. Well, colour me gobsmacked. Not only were there a huge percentage of the diagrams missing when I received […]
My latest #TradPub experience
For those of you who have been around here for a while, you already know that I am a hybrid author, with my novels self-published and my non-fiction equestrian books produced by a traditional publisher. You might also have noticed a while ago that I was commissioned to write another equestrian title by my current […]
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