Ramblings on Publishing, Writing, Marketing and Lifestyle.
Your author website is an essential component for any writer or indie publisher and should be seen as the jewel in the crown in which to send traffic. With your own website, you have full control and won't be left exposed to sea changes in the social media sphere, new...
The Reedsy platform offers an exciting eco-system for authors to help craft beautiful books. There are two main focal points: the first is the editor and the second is the marketplace. Both are offered in a slick user-friendly interface that makes it easy to find...
As 2018 steams ahead and 2017 evaporates in the rearview like dust off a truck it seems like a good point to assess where I'm at, as a writer and us as a publisher. Personally, 2017 was one of the best for a long time by a long shot. I gave up my old life, travelled,...
When I first discovered Patreon, a platform helping creatives regain financial freedom, I was transfixed. Here was a way to offer content through a membership model for supporting patrons (or Patreons) to access by either each creative ‘thing’ or on a monthly basis....
I spent most of January back in my home city of Bristol, partly to connect with the vibrant writing meetups that take place and re-connect with some old faces but also to travel down to Runnymead on Thames for the recent 20books London event in early February. In case...
As I write this it is the last day of Nanowrimo 2017. Looking at my count from a cafe in Bratislava with one eye on the snow falling outside, it's likely I'm not going to hit the required fifty thousand words. But I had a metric shit-ton of fun trying. Before November...
After around three months in Colombia, I'm back in Europe and enjoying the historical city of Lisbon in Portugal. Overall, staying in Medellin was productive and I managed to stick to a routine, working from various cafes as well as joining the co-working space to...
An effective way of building your email list for your author platform is using giveaway and newsletter swaps. Services like instaFreebie can give you powerful options. Here you can build a dedicated list of fans by offering free book in return for their optin details....
The idea of the Nomad cruise fired and excited my imagination ever since I came across it on the web last year so to be stepping onto the Zenith on December 10th was the realisation of a crazy plan to kick-start a new lifestyle. As the older cruise ship (I nicknamed...