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Authors Tales

Flavours of Thought 2nd Edition

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 [...]

Publishing

How do you want your lightbulb moments ?

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

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Publishing

How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months

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 [...]

Publishing

The Golden Age of Self-publishing

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 [...]

Publishing

Author Platform #003: eReading

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 [...]

Authors Tales

Addicted to Wedding Cake

I’m thrilled to have been able to help new author Keith Churchouse publish his second book this year on the Amazon Kindle – and via the Kindle app, on the iPhone and iPad too.

Addicted to Wedding Cake is a user manual of how to get divorced in the most painless way possible. Keith’s been there, got [...]

iPhone & iPad

Do iPad or do I Kindle?

Well I never thought I’d ever buy Knitting for Dummies. But I just got a copy via the Amazon Kindle Store to read, or is that to watch, on my iPad.

So am I taking up crocheting books or, as fabulous author’s coach @ledasammarco suggested on Twitter, knitting light bulbs?

No, I am just checking out how embedded [...]

iPhone & iPad

Publishing in hands of authors

If one of your books sells in a book shop, as an author, you are likely to get less than 10% of the selling price.
This is not a gripe but a fact, as other people in the chain need to be duly recompensed for their part in getting the book on the shelf.

With the introduction of [...]

Creativity

The iPad: a writer’s toolbox?

It’s arrived at last and it was definitely worth the wait. My decision not to buy one of the excellent ereaders like the Kindle or the Cool-er has proved to be right. My e-Writer has arrived in the form of an iPad.

From a creative writer’s perspective, just being able to read on the go is less [...]

iPhone & iPad

iPad: five killer apps for authors

As I mentioned in my earlier blog – Do iPad or Do I Kindle? – the iPad delivers something very specific for authors that ereaders don’t…
- quite simply, it’s the ability to write.

Will I be getting one? You bet!

Will I wait a while? Yes too as I specifically want it do act as my mobile writing [...]