Hello.
Another double header this week; this time of stuff I wouldn’t normally post (and probably shouldn’t now).
Things that might be better left unsaid
Writing/Self-publishing
How to Make Writing First Person Narrations Easy as Baking a Cake (assuming you’re a really good baker)
Talking of cake; have I bitten off more than I can chew by not only giving out such thoughtful, valuable advice, but also in the form of poetry too? You be the judge: Continue reading
What Value Reviews?
The last post looked at why reviews for products/services offered to self-publishers might be outright lies to not quite what they seem, and how to potentially spot them.
This post looks at reviews for books and the shady goings-ons that can equally be found involved with them too:
Delving Deeper into Genuine or Lie
How positive reviews for self-publishing services and products are easily obtained without being genuine and neither an outright lie:
The Numbers Have It
A brief analysis of the Twitter numbers belonging to the Predator account used as example in The Trouble with Twitter Continue reading
The Trouble with Twitter
Step one to understanding the value in self-publishing services and products.
On Twitter there’s a follow-for-follow ‘tactic’ used by many accounts.
They’re easy to spot, having almost equal numbers in follows and followers, and those numbers running into the thousands. Continue reading
NOBODY Cares About Your Book!
After all the hours spent toiling over punctuation and grammar, never mind all the sleepless nights worrying about whether the plot’s as tight as a mouse’s arsehole, that’s a Hell of a statement to just fling in a budding author’s face. So let’s put the theory to the test: Continue reading
The Great Formatting Swindle
One burning question for anyone coming to self-publishing for the first time: how to format.
There is plenty of advice out there.
But which is the right way? Continue reading
