My debut novel, ‘In A Right State‘, has been available on Amazon for about 6 months now and what no-one really tells you is that during this first 6 months you spend 99% of your time trying to get reviews. At least, for an unknown, self-published, debut author, that’s what you should be spending your time doing
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Self-Publishing: ‘In A Right State’ 6 Month Review
My debut novel, ‘In A Right State’, has now been live on Amazon for 6 months since launching on 7th July 2014, so how has it performed? Back in February last year I try to define different levels of success in a blog post, ‘Self-Publishing: My goal & defining success‘. According to those goals, I’m just
‘In A Right State’ Paperback Launched!
Two bits of great news this week. The paperback of ‘In A Right State’ is now available for purchase from CompletelyNovel. Just got a proof copy yesterday and it looks great, really good quality, especially the cover. The paperback will be going onto Amazon and other online retailers soon, but you can buy it from
Featured in Local Newspaper!
I was featured in the local newspaper, The Worthing Herald, for my stunt changing the ‘Welcome to Worthing’ signs. You can BUY my ebook on Amazon UK, here.
Welcome to #Wigthorn!
What’s going on?! Where the bloody hell is Wigthorn?! What happened to Worthing?! Don’t worry, you haven’t been transported into an alternate reality, you’re still in Worthing. But if you want to be transported into an alternate reality where Worthing is Wigthorn, the old pier is underwater, you have no privacy, satellites watch your every
Attending the Will Self ‘Shark’ Book Tour
On Tuesday evening I went and saw Will Self at The Ropetackle in Shoreham as part of his book tour for ‘Shark’. I can’t remember how I heard about it but it was sold out when I checked the website at the weekend. I phoned Tuesday afternoon and it was still sold out so I
‘In A Right State’ – Wins Book Cover Award!
What a result! The cover for ‘In A Right State’ won the Fiction Cover Award for self-published books over at The Book Designer for the month of July. Against some good competition too, but when I submitted it I had faith in Emery’s skills – my mate who designed it. If you want to utilise his skills
‘In A Right State’ gets some reviews!
‘In A Right State’ has finally garnered a couple of reviews and half decent ones too. Check them out on Amazon – a 3 star and a 4 star, I’m pretty happy with that for starters. Plus they’ve been posted on the reviewers own blogs and on GoodReads; Space and Sorcery The Review List I’m surprised by the
‘In A Right State’ Launched! Buy It NOW!
Here it is! ‘In A Right State’ is now live on Amazon and awaiting your hard earned cash! Buy it, review it, retweet this, tweet something else, Facebook it, GoodReads it, Google Plus it, Friends Reunite it, MySpace it, write it on a toilet wall. It’s only the price of a pint. There’s no froth,
‘In A Right State’ Cover Reveal!
OK, I’m really close to getting this thing launched, so here’s the cover. Isn’t she a beauty! My good friend Emery designed this and I’m so happy with it. It’s an illustration of an actual scene in the book but also gets across the general themes and ideas. I’m no scholar of book cover design