Publishing

Hi there This is a quick update of my progress with the Onlinebookclub. A couple of posts ago I complained that although I’d signed up and paid my money with a promotion that said they would buy a book and it hadn’t happened.  In fact nothing had happened. I have to give them their due they have now bought a kindle copy. I have had some email correspondence with a real person – a lovely lady called Sarah. No reviews yet. I’m not sure what I paid for because it looks as if I have to pay more if I…

  This is my self-published book – I’m so pleased with the cover. Here’s the link to Amazon I want to shout to the world, ‘READ IT. READ IT! BE ENTERTAINED!!’ Problem – How to market a self-published book I don’t expect everyone to like it but I would love to think that everyone who reads English will give it a go! One of the hardest things for self-publishers is getting their book noticed.  It is harder than writing it, than having it edited and working on the advice and criticism that follows. Harder than the whole writing process. Harder…

I have just read a piece by Australian author Ilka Tampke whose book, ‘Songwoman’ was voted the most ‘underrated book of the year’.  Her article in the Guardian starts by saying, ‘Writing is tough. My book went so unnoticed I won an award for it.’ Going unnoticed is the plight of so many of us writers. There could be an award for the most unnoticed book of the year. But I guess the underrated is better because not only was this book not noticed for some time, it was seen as a great book when it was noticed. Sadly, unnoticed…