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Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & the Arts
It’s here again: the now-annual AusNZ Festival, at King’s College in the Strand. Taking place right now, and over the coming weekend. Highlights (for me) include Let’s Talk about Anzac, a discussion...
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Self publishing for family historians
As promised to the gentle folk at the Society of Genealogists on Saturday’s workshop on self publishing, here are my notes, posted in two parts. WHERE I am coming from What I know about self publishing...
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Self publishing for family historians part 2
What to look out for before contacting a self publishing service. DO be clear exactly what you are looking for DO make sure you hang onto the rights to your book DO make sure the royalties come...
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The Oldie workshop
To the gracious people attending The Oldie workshop on 22 October on writing Memoir and Biography here is the gist of my brief talk on self publishing, with some recommendations of people who can help...
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NaNoWriMo
Write a novel in a month? You have to be joking. NaNoWriMo.org There’s a certain amount of pressure on indie authors these days to churn out several books a year. (Never mind the quality, feel the...
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Exercises in marketing
You’ve written your book, rewritten it, rewritten it, had it edited, cover designed, beautifully produced and published, it looks gorgeous. Nobody is buying it. Sketch by Anna de Polnay I have been...
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Exercises in marketing 2
Self publishing is not free. It’s true you can upload your book onto the Amazon site and to Smashwords for free, but if you want a professional job done you will have to pay for parts of it. Barney the...
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Ingram Spark (& others)
On Tuesday evening courtesy of ALLI (The Alliance of Independent Authors) we had the pleasure of a talk from Andy Bromley from Ingram Spark. When I first published The World Country in the World back...
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Self publishing: the nuts and bolts
In response to some queries I’ve been receiving recently from writers thinking about self publishing, here is an update on the nuts and bolts of what it entails. Self publishing offers exciting...
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Judging a book – hints about cover design
No, I’m not going to tell you how to design your book cover. I will say find a professional to do it for you as there’s nothing worse than a shoddy cover, and I speak from painful experience. I decided...
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