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Is it a book? Is it a …?

thebookwright — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:13:53 +0000

Writing and publishing a book is the most amazing process – not just for the pride it gives you as an author but for all the doors it opens as a result. If I hadn’t written those 33 stanzas in 100 Years of Ermintrude back in 2006, I simply wouldn’t be doing what I am doing now. [...]

Flavours of Thought 2nd Edition

thebookwright — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:29:25 +0000

I am so thrilled to announce that, less than a year since I wrote the original book, Flavours of Thought is now in its Second Edition. The second edition of course includes all the ancient wisdom in the same contemporary context as the first but now there are some added juicy bits such as:

- Seven brand new [...]

How do you want your lightbulb moments ?

thebookwright — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:56:12 +0000

In print, on your Kindle, iPad, iPhone or Nook? The book also comes with six guided audio visualisations to help you induce lightbulb moments Get them here and loads of free Mind Map templates Get the book here Order for Amazon Kindle [UK] Order for Amazon Kindle [Worldwide] Order the print version from Amazon.co.uk Order the print version from Amazon.com Order for the [...]

Now that’s what I call a review

thebookwright — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:45:41 +0000

In the interests of sharing the power and usefulness of a review both for the author and other readers, I thought I’d share this one that came in recently for my book Blocks …

It’s a reminder to all readers to take time to give feedback to authors and for authors never to think a book they [...]

How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months

thebookwright — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:54:29 +0000

Before you get too excited, this is not me but a US-based author called John Locke. He’s very cleverly written a book that described how he did it which itself I suspect will sell another million in less than that time. I’ve just downloaded it for my iPad and it’s brilliant – brilliantly simple and brilliantly easy to [...]

The Golden Age of Self-publishing

thebookwright — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:19:38 +0000

It’s simply never a better time to be an author. You can go from edited manuscript to publishing it globally as an ebook within a couple of days and in print within just a few days. My guest this week on the Barefoot Book show was Joel Friedlander who has written an amazing book called A Self [...]

Author Platform #005: ePublishing

thebookwright — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:33:47 +0000

So you’ve written your ebook but how do you get it out to the world and even start making money from it?

Option 1: PDF

Well the simplest way is as it has always been – to create a PDF file. This not only preserves the formatting of you source document but ensures it can’t [easily] be tampered [...]

Author Platform #004: eWriting

thebookwright — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:33:40 +0000

… a fresh approach to creating an eBook Sales of ebooks are predicted to overtake paperback books by 2014. For authors especially, simply to bury your head in the sand by saying you prefer a printed book is not an option. Aside from any other consideration, increased royalties make writing with the ‘ereader’ in mind a prudent [...]

Author Platform #003: eReading

thebookwright — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:36:23 +0000

If I was writing this article just five years ago, when asked what an ebook is, I would probably have said a PDF. Where PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format which, unlike say an Word document, is read-only and retains all the source formatting and layout. Nowadays, with the increasing ubiquity of ereaders, it might [...]

CompletelyNovel: a new paradigm for publishing?

thebookwright — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:09:30 +0000

I’d literally just finished the last page of my new book, Flavours of Thought, when an email came into my Inbox about a new service called CompletelyNovel.

At first I ignored it, as it actually came into my Spam folder, but something encouraged me to click the link and I was amazed at what I found. So [...]