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Should I stop writing, or keep going?
Regular readers might have picked up from recent posts that I'm having a bit of a crisis about my writing and whether to continue. It's not about whether I can write: I think I can, and have published some good stuff. Readers love my books and tell me so. No, it's not...
Why am I always in a hurry?
The last blog post was all about slowing down, taking things easy, enjoying the unusually lovely weather, and yet here I am, only a few days later, reflecting on my default attitude to life which seems to be 'Life is short, don't hang around, make decisions, get...
Summer break
For what seems like the first time in decades, I have nothing much to do, think about or worry about, or plan for, or worry about not planning for - you know how it goes. No matter how many things you're juggling, there's still the worry that you've missed something...
The joy of talking about writing
As you might have gathered from my last post, and others over the past few months, I'm seriously weighing the positives of writing and self-publishing against the negatives, and there's no certainty that I will want to continue. But when I think about giving it all...
My new book arrives: how does it feel?
I'm ruthless with my Twitter feed, regularly and systematically blocking anything I don't want and refusing to 'follow back' until I've checked the person out. Too many 'followers' are just fishing for reciprocation, and I'm not interested. As a consequence, my...
Local or global promotion?
The story so far... I tried putting one of my books on the Kindle free list. 115 copies were downloaded, and quite a few readers were reading 'pages' during the four days of the promotion and shortly afterwards. No way of knowing whether there will be a longer term...
Do book ‘promotions’ work?
Well, I put 'A Good Liar' on the Kindle free ebook list last week and 115 copies were downloaded over the five days of the offer. At the same time the number of (KENP) pages being read of both 'A Good Liar' and 'Forgiven', which is the next book in the series, both...
‘Free’ ebooks: what are the implications?
After my post last week about the ludicrously low prices that are being charged for ebooks, I decided to try something. I put one of my novels - the first one, 'A Good Liar' - onto a four day free offer, starting on April 23rd, which happened to be my birthday....
Are eBook prices far too low?
I had an interesting exchange recently with an indie publisher who's been in the trade for many years and seen it all. This is what he said on the issue of eBook prices. "Things are tough for every indie publisher - readers seem to have decided that the price point...
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