6 Tips for Adding Life to Your Locations [Reblog] Nicholas Rossis

Jut read a post from Author Nicholas Rossis about adding life to you locations. My current WIP is set mainly in one location, but I want to ensure I set that one location up in the bed way possible. Nicholas post is a summary of another which he recommends you read as well, but for …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors – Smartbribe

How To grow Your Email List With Smartbribe This is a special bonus add on to my 4 part series on Creating a free email list. Special because this is technically part 5 of 4. You can read the other parts in this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listHow to …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #4

How to Attract People to Your Email List #2 This is part 2 of 'How To Attract People Your Email List'. You can find all the parts of this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listhow to attract people to your list #1How to attract people to your list #2 (this …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #3

How to Attract People to Your Email List #1 This is part 3 of my series on email lists for authors. You can check out part 1 HERE and part 2 HERE. Part 1 covered getting your list set up and part 2 was about how to add people to your list. This part and …

How To Write a Choose Your Own Adventure Story

I wrote last week about writing a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) story, and i talked about some of the different options that exist FREE online to help you to organise and write your own. If you've ever thought about writing one and wondered how you be able to manage all the different options and …

How to Maximise Instagram Engagement For Authors [Long Post]

Last week I wrote a post extolling the virtues of Instagram and why, as authors, it is a worthwhile platform to be on, as far as social media goes. Hopefully I convinced you to give it a try if you haven't already, or perhaps I gave you some ideas of things to work on to …

Using Instagram to Promote Your Book [Long Post]

Please forgive me for being late to the party, but I have recently joined Instagram. What took me so long you ask? Well, it's just not something I had ever considered as being helpful in my goal of promoting my work. It's mostly photo sharing, so it won't be useful in that goal. Right? I …

Give your Readership a Massive Boost!

I wrote a guest post for a blogger friend a while back, but I thought it was a good time to refresh that post for readers here. Following the new GDPR regulations I went through the process of reconfirming all my mailing list subscribers and was not surprised to see the number fall significantly. But …

Writing on the move! I’ve Discovered a New Tool!

So, I've been away on holiday. Hooray for me! My wife, son and myself have spent the last week in sunny Devon, and very nice it was, but I've been working on an idea for a novel which I didn't want to leave behind for a whole week. Of course I took my notepad and …