You’ve got your eBook up and ready to be made into a print book. Bully for you! This is exciting stuff. You’ve done all the hard yards, now it’s just the tedious (but important) yards. Lulu insists that, if you’re […]
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ISBNs and All That Jazz
When you publish your eBook, you can assign an ISBN to it. You know that butt ugly barcode that’s sitting on the back of a book? That’s the one. In digital format, you don’t need to worry about having a […]
Read moreeBook to Hardcopy – Lulu
The Print On Demand option is very attractive for indie authors. We’re not rolling in dough. We haven’t got the patience or time to go running after a publisher or go chatting to distributors to please purchase these titles. We […]
Read moreDigital Versus Hardcopy
Getting your book up in digital is exciting. Once you’ve put an ISBN against it and pushed it to the numerous distributors, it can be found across the net. Wow! Funny thing is, while it’s awesome having your stuff up […]
Read moreFormat, Distribution, Promotion…
Publishing Jolimont Street Ghost should have been a ‘crack a beer and take a week or two off moment’. After all, the hard stuff is done. Writing and editing and proofing and all of that stuff. Done. Front cover and […]
Read moreJolimont Street Ghost – Free at last!
Tada! Please find Jolimont Street Ghost at Smashwords, yours for free, with my compliments, in whatever format you like. Cue the fireworks and open the champagne. OK, maybe I’ll just crack a beer and watch Hellboy. You see, I wanted […]
Read moreBlurb is a Four Letter Word
Third draft of Jolimont Street Ghost is done. More changes, “whoops, how’d that get in there?”, get rid of that unnecessary tosh, red pens and redder eyes. Now I’m going to let it stew once more, while I figure out […]
Read moreIt’s that time again…
‘Jolimont Street Ghost’ second draft is done. Still a few things to tidy up. Still some paragraphs that need work. But now it’s time to break out the red pen. Yeppers, it’s head down, bum up, editing hat on with […]
Read moreJolimont Street Ghost – Front Cover
For the next in Paranormology, I’ve gone back to the beginning in terms of my front cover, except that, unlike Grosvenor Lane Ghost, Jolimont is a fair bit darker and nastier. Now, for the past three covers I’ve been the […]
Read moreJolimont Street – First Draft
This time, no mucking around with silly plots. What am I talking about? Well, if you look back a fair few posts, Hampton Court Ghost started life as a train-wreck. There was a mangled plot and a weird premise that […]
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