Changes, Part Two: Blurbs

Ok, so here are the new blurbs for the books. This time I didn’t post the new ones to Kboards, I need to rebuild my confidence before asking for any help from there again! Second Time Lucky? By C. T. Brown My girlfiend dead, murdered, lying in the gutter at my feet. Police could be […]

Changes, Part One: New Covers.

I recently posted the covers for my works up on the Kboards in their Writers Cafe section, hoping to get some constructive criticism about improving them. Well, I definitely got the criticism! Some of their points were valid, although it might have been nice if someone had managed to say something slightly positive, so I […]

Download Figures

So, I had a rough estimate in my head of total numbers of downloads of my books so far – around the 400 mark or slightly below. Then I realised I hadn’t done the essential data monkey task – create a spreadsheet! Formulas, conditional formatting, I could even try and work in a pivot table. […]

Authors, Self-Publishing and Money.

Money. A dirty word in some circles and the elephant in the room whenever there is a discussion about self-publishing. So let us start with a question, are you writing purely to earn money? If the answer is ‘yes’ then forget self-publishing, in fact forget most forms of fiction altogether. Go out and research what […]

Marketing and Promotion

Well my three day experiment making Chasing The Future free resulted in 31 downloads and these have so far led to exactly no sales whatsoever. I’m not sure if the ‘no sales’ part is due to the theory that free giveaways drive sales being wrong or just just that we’re talking about such low numbers […]