Wishing you all the best for this holiday season. Hello to all my readers and book lovers in general. Well, 2021 is coming to a close and it's been another year of dealing with #COVID, #lockdowns and general disruption to our lives due to the virus. As I write this infections are rising again but the #omicron strain doesn't seem too bad as no one has been sent to hospital by it. I do hope this is the end of this pandemic and 2022 brings us better news. My year has been full o

For self-published authors, it can be difficult to know how and where to market their books. Social media sites are the obvious choice, but there are other things an author can do to sell their books. I am currently* running a book giveaway for my latest story - Xenure Station Trilogy and this is the poster to help promote both the competition and my books. The competition runs until 30 January 2022. This is one way to help promote a book and I added the cool LEGO spaceship t

Christopher Hitchens, an American journalist, is quoted as saying this during a conversation with colleagues. Hitchens was known for his sardonic wit. The whole quote (or something similar) is ‘Everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases, remain.' As a living human being, you have a story. We all have. Whether this story is interesting to anyone else is a matter of opinion. I recently read 'Boy Swallows Universe' by Trent Dalton,

Speaking with other authors I have found not many of us enjoy marketing our books. Most of us enjoy writing but abhor marketing our titles.