This morning I was listening to the Creative Penn podcast in which Joanna talks to Mark Levefre, the director of Kobo Writing Life. Kobo has a special place for me, because it was the first platform where I started selling more than coffee money. That was pure luck, but lately…
Starting as a writer can be very bewildering, and books, blogs, workshops and classes are full of advice. It can be really hard to figure out what is important. Here are some things I wished someone had told me in 2005. 1. DO finish your story. If you have no…
Remember I posted this a few days ago? Well, the promotion is now live and we’ve had over 62,000 clicks to book links so far, with almost a day still to go. I’m flabbergasted, and very pleased and astonished. Why is this model so successful? Cross-promotions are nothing new, but…
A year or so ago, someone who organises a lot of very successful book bundles for writers made a bundle of space-based science fiction. I got really pissed off with this bundle, because somehow the organisers managed to find not a single female writer of Science Fiction to be included….
I recently pulled all my more recent novellas and short stories together in an anthology. There are 15 of them: This Peaceful State of War – WOTF winning story Geospermia – published in Analog The Rebelliousness of Trassi Udang – published in Belong, ISF-Allion world The Shattered World Within –…
When I first started writing and publishing, it used to be that you got your first reviews from a few author friends, and then you might run a giveaway at LibraryThing and you might contact some book bloggers to see if they would review the book. However, Amazon has clamped…
Every month I’ve been running a promotion for alternately free or 99c books. Most of them are first in a series. This month, on 2-3 April, we have over 90 authors with free books. The promo runs on a subdivision of this site, but has its own mailing list, where…
I’ve made a slight update to the covers of the Icefire Trilogy. I’ve made the contrast a bit crisper, and there is of course the awesome ampersand. This will go hand in hand with some adjustments, fixing of a few oopses and updating of back matter, in preparation for the…
Well, it’s actually the same one, but I nuked the other site and re-installed a new database over the top. Loads of stuff still to be updated. I think you can even comment now.
