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Brilliant Shop Opportunity for UK Indie Authors

by Naomi Chance on September 14, 2012 0

Fancy an opportunity to have your books featured in a PopUpshop in one of the most bohemian and cool areas [...]


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Sequels – Do I have to read the first one?

by Steve Norris on March 27, 2012 0

This is a challenge for any author particularly for a new one penning their first set of stories. Think about [...]


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Kindle Promotion

by Steve Norris on January 13, 2012 4

I wrote some time ago of the plan for marketing kindle books and how it’s possible by concentrating sales on [...]


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Five Days and More

by Steve Norris on January 1, 2012 5

New year, new beginnings, that’s what we all will be probably pondering over today. I am looking back over a [...]


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The End – You Wish

by Steve Norris on December 20, 2011 0

People say writing a book is a massive and impressive challenge. It is…all of us undertaking the adventure are more [...]


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The Events depicted in this blog are…

by Steve Norris on November 17, 2011 0

One of the challenges of writing political fiction in the modern world is that there are several incumbents alive and [...]


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Indie Writers – Deluded or Undiscovered

by Steve Norris on November 4, 2011 2

I often ask this question, not because I’m trying to be clever or cruel but because I’m to trying to [...]


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Social Networks and your fellow Authors

by Steve Norris on October 29, 2011 4

Over the last few months I’ve had the pleasure of talking to a lot of  fellow authors in the virtual [...]


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Writers: Welcome to your Critics

by Steve Norris on October 24, 2011 4

Writing is very personal, often it is therapeutic other times it’s all about fantasy. Whatever is behind the work it [...]


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A guide to managing complex storylines – Part 2 – Swimlanes

by Steve Norris on October 12, 2011 3

My previous blog concentrated on tips for building suspense in stories and how to leave hooks that the reader can [...]


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A guide to managing complex storylines – Part 1 – Suspense, Hooks and Wet Fish

by Steve Norris on October 7, 2011 4

Modern story writing requires the author to blend together a number of threads slowly revealing the connections to the reader. [...]


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E- Book Promotion Days

by Steve Norris on September 30, 2011 2

  Those of us in the independent sector of publishing will no doubt know that marketing a new book is [...]