by kev | 4th Apr 2018 | Books, Fiction, My Books
A new direction You know, every now and again, an idea occurs that is too good to be left until later. I’d just finished the fourth book in the Robot Empire series (Sledgehammer) and was organising a group promotion for some author friends who write historical...
by kev | 22nd Feb 2017 | Advice, For Authors
Jutoh (http://www.jutoh.com/) is the only tool I use for ebook compiling. It’s very, very simple to go from a document in Word format (whether output from Word itself, from Google Docs, Scrivener or whatever) to an ebook and, in this video, I show how to create...
by kev | 12th Feb 2017 | Advice, For Authors
I work for myself and could easily fill every waking hour with tasks related to those businesses. In fact, after completing 50,000 words during Camp NaNoWriMo in 2016, I allowed myself to put my writing on the back burner and wrote almost nothing for five months. The...
by kev | 3rd Jan 2017 | For Authors, Writing Tools
I was introduced to Instafreebie as part of Mark Dawson’s Self Publishing 101 course which included mention of it and a voucher for an extra month’s premium subscription. Instafreebie is a site to which authors upload .mobi, .epub and (optionally) .pdf...
by kev | 1st Oct 2016 | For Authors, Thoughts
The first novel in my comic fantasy trilogy, Stryke First, is now inching its way towards publication. Having been through three drafts, I’ve now printed the 80,000-word manuscript out and I’m marking up all the little cock-ups for amendment before it has...
by kev | 21st Jun 2016 | Advice, For Authors, Writing Tools
Want to get more writing done? Or, indeed, any work that involves sitting at a computer. Buy yourself a cheap kitchen timer and choose a time between 15 minutes and, say, 35 minutes (start small). Press Start and work on your project exclusively until the beeper goes...
