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It’s not entirely clear why an author should take up the ‘pre-order’ option on the Amazon/Kindle platform. I believe this hiatus between submitting a book, and it becoming available to customers, allows for both revision of manuscript and book details, as well as a recruitment period for beta readers to contribute comments and reviews of… Continue reading The pre-order wait

The promotions gambit is very complicated! But I’m trying very hard to understand it. I signed on to a ‘group promo’ month-long adventure which I thought might get news of Biome NE47: Prequel out to a larger science fiction audience. Uh-oh. The science fiction police said no. The cover image doesn’t fit the genre (not… Continue reading Sci-Fi Explosion! or a damp squib

It’s all a grand lark, but with a serious purpose. If the books, these forays into the world of Biome NE47, are any good, they have to find a market. But the market doesn’t just suddenly materialise. No, that’s where both the free taster, and the widely circulated, often free first book come in. The… Continue reading The promotions whirl

As I toggled between Prequel and the novel I think of as ‘the main event,’ namely Biome NE47 itself, I began to think: the story grows as a series, and maybe the third installment will be really something. A picture that in totality, more than any single volume could relate, describes life in these parts… Continue reading Enthusiasm for the third volume

I’ve never read about this authorial phenomenon, but it seems to have happened to me, over the course of the past few weeks and hours. After the first beta-readers signalled that yes, there was a story, that they reckoned the novel of Prequel was actually alive and well, I was delighted. Sure. But thereafter, by… Continue reading Falling in love with the story, again

It’s finally here! The first of May seemed like an auspicious day to launch the series of Biome NE47 novels. That heady sense of spring, in between the lambing storms, the random hail and brilliant sunshine. This week has seen rather a lot of poetry coming off my keyboard. Perhaps that’s a displacement activity from… Continue reading Promotions Launch Day!

It’s really feeling like the first two novels of the Biome NE47 series are safely in bed now, as the promotions window winds down to launch. Thereafter the calendar of events is meant to follow a logical schedule. My daily task should be, then, to get going with the audio versions, refine my recording and… Continue reading Beginning to think Sequel

I’ve set up the crucial accounts (MailChimp and BookFunnel), elicited some lovely beta-testers to assess the service, finessed and titivated the taster to create the best ‘come-hither’ reading experience I can manage, and now, a week hence, I expect to launch the free offering of Fragments of a Song out to the wider local region.… Continue reading Target: 1st of May

Editing aside, some of the more daunting tasks involved in presenting one’s writing creation to the public have to be the components of the morass, the absolute maze, of the navigation through to the goal of successful self-publishing on the big worldwide platforms. It’s taken me months to figure out the appropriate steps. When those… Continue reading Testing the feeds

Earlier this morning I went through my editing task for the final two chapters of Prequel, and I thought, ah ha, that’s actually sorted. But I hadn’t reckoned on the Synopsis. A Synopsis really doesn’t figure in an eBook, I know. But I’ve found it helpful when looking at the project as a whole, to… Continue reading Editing joys . . .