How much should you spend on advertising your book? This question gets asked a lot, especially by beginning writers. They’ve heard that it is probably a good idea to advertise your book, and they like to be given some kind of clear guidelines as to how much they should spend….
Here are some pictures of spring flowers I’ve taken over the last few weeks in the Lane Cove National Park. They’re all common flowers around Sydney.
If you focus on the three Ps of selfpublishing you increase the likelihood of success. In the world of selfpublishing, it’s easy to lose track of what to do and what is a waste of time. You can fill up your entire day with busy work, but which things are…
Here is a view from the trenches about the state of indie publishing in 2019. Recently, there was much ado about this post by Russell Blake which made the point, in short, you must hand over wads of cash to the various advertisers (mainly Amazon Advertising) or die. I think…
May to October is the whale watching season off Sydney. This year has been a good (a whale of a?) year. We went out on one of the whale watching boats last Sunday. The ocean was alive with whales and dolphins. It was also very choppy, which made for a…
You can’t make a living as an artist. That was the refrain that we heard, growing up and making decisions about what school to go to and what to study in the 80’s. Because the starving artist was so engrained in everyone’s mindset. So we went to study a “real…
This is going to be the last post in this series. We went from Indian Canyon to Joshua Tree. Our hotel was in between those two, on the loooooong and very straight road that link the two and crosses the freeway at the ginormous wind farm (windmills still not doing…
The next day it was on to Palm Springs. I have to admit that this is one of the weirdest places I have ever visited, not necessarily in a good way. There were a number of reasons we stopped there. In the first place, we were getting close to the…
On the move again. We visited lookout at the chapel on the hill (Chapel of the Holy Cross) in Sedona. Wonder who lives in that crazy house down there. We came through the creepiest-ever place called Jerome. The building with the red window frames was actually a brothel. I think…
Sedona is just so pretty and not cold, we stayed another day. Here are some more pictures of the amazing scenery.
