It’s been almost a week now since my upload of Unexpected Obsession (The Unexpected Series Book 1), and I still can’t believe it happened. Self-publishing is a hard task master when preparing for publication. I couldn’t count the amount of times editing has occurred to get to that publishing stage only to find ‘niggling little horrors’ show […]
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Heathcliff and Barbie Dolls
Writing is an emotional minefield and even at this late stage of my manuscript I am thinking, considering and weighing up my choices, so that I am better able to deal with the repercussions of what I do. However, because of circumstantial restrictions my approach to publishing has been a little left-field and I would […]
Continue readingSelf-publishing, reviews and audiences
These last couple of weeks have been very busy, too busy really and not all in a fun way. When this happens I do what I always do and look for something to read so I can chill. It’s what I love about reading, the fact it gives you time away from real life without […]
Continue readingMoving forward and onward
Even though writing is a very solitary occupation, ironically it only functions, when it has an audience. Every author needs a tribe – a lovely way to describe the audience or more to the point, readers. It is our readers who help us stay afloat, who give us the inspiration and support to keep on […]
Continue readingAnother week or a wine down the track
Whilst still high on cloud nine that we managed to handle self-publishing a few other things have also impacted on me, this week. It has been timely because at some stage, reviews will come in, and reality will say hello. Don’t misunderstand. I have no misgivings about our efforts in creating Stories of the Dark […]
Continue readingUp and Running
A week after the big event and I still can’t quite grasp it. I can call myself an author. That might sound strange considering I have been blogging for a year but somehow the publishing of a book is so different. Blogging has continuity; you can change your mind and rescind whatever you wrote or […]
Continue readingOnly a few more sleeps
This post is going to be a mixed bag so bear with me. It has been a nerve-wracking time for our Wordwick3d Writer’s group as we power on to get our anthology up there in outer space where lots of aliens are waiting to eat us up and possibly spit us out. There is so […]
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